After a game is released, many people assume that means that it'll always be out there and available for people to purchase, download, and play. Although there are some retro games on older consoles that are difficul꧒t to find physical copies of now, they are🍨 still out there. But as digital copies of games on marketplaces like Steam become more and mor🥂e prevalent in the gaming world, the permanency of games becomes less and less certain.
Over the years, quite a few games have been delisted from digital marketplaces. Although it's still possible to get your hands on a phys▨ical copy of some of them, there are also some that were never released in physical formats, meaning these games are basically gone forever. Even if a physical version was released, they can be tough to track down, so many people never get to play these games.
10 LEGO Lord Of The Rings 🌄
LEGO games for basically every franchise have been released over the years. From Harry Potter to Batman, basically any franchise that you're a fan of has likely been given the LEGO treatment and made into a video game. LEGO Lord of the Rings was released in 2012 on a variety of platforms, i𓄧ncluding PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS, among others.
But, in 2019, the game was removed from all digital storefronts. People first noticed that this game was removed from Steam only a short time after it was available for free through Humble Bundle and the developers later confirmed that the game was being removed from digital markets. Fortunately, players that already own it still have access to the game, but there was no reaso🌠n given for its delisting.
9 Piccled Ricc ✃
Pickle Rick is a joke from Rick and Morty that is seemingly everywhere these days. There's a ton of Pickle Rick merchandise around the Internet 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and one dedicated fan even made their own fan-made game called Piccled Ricc.
After a ton of YouTubers and other streamers played the game🐬 and brought attention to it, Adult Swim must have caught on and filed a copyright complaint against the fan that created the game. Although the fan argued that their game was perfectly legal due to being a parody, Steam disagreed and kept the game off the website.
8 Raccoon Hero ✤
Low quality games flooding digital marketplaces like Nintendo's eShop and the Steam store are a huge problem these days. These games are tossed together quickly, usually just copies of other games, and only exist to try to make some cashꦛ for the developer.
One example of one of these games was Raccoon Hero. Raccoon Hero was among from a number of publishers. According to Valve, these games were removed for be🌟ing "fake" games that used pre-ma🐓de assets and were simply put onto the marketplace to make money.
7 🐭 Abstractism
Abstractism is a simple puzzle game that was put on Steam but removed pretty quickly for some pretty surprising reasons. In this game, the player would ♕guide a bꦅlock through a variety of maze-like levels. So, what could Steam possibly find wrong with such a simple game?
Apparently, the game was actually not what it seemed. , the game was removed because it was putting cryptocurrenꦐcy mining software on people's computers and it was selling fake DLC for other Steam games. Good thing Valv𝔉e caught on!
6 Deadpool
Deadpool is a comic character that has become pretty popular in recent years thanks to the movies starring Ryan Reynolds that have been released. But, before Deadpool the movie was released, Deadpool the video g♏ame was released... And then taken down. Twice.
The game was originally released in 2013 on a variety of different platforms, but it was delisted from digital marketplaces in 2015. It was put back on those digital marketplaces sometime later, but it ended up getting taken back down and is no longer for sale. Luckily, comic book fans can turn to a variety of other fun superhero games like Marvel's Spider-Man to fill the hole Deadpool left.
5 P.T.
It's basically impossible to talk about delisted video games without mentioning P.T. This game was actually just a teaser puzzle that was designed to announce the upcoming (and then cancelled) game Silent Hills. P.T. has the player go around and around through a seemingly endless maze of a house 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:until tꦍhey finally manag🍃e to solve the puzzle that it contains.
Unfortunately for Silent Hill fans, this game was cancelled due to disagreements between Hideo Kojima and Konami. The game was put on PlayStation Network as a free download in August of 2014 and removed in April of the next year. Although fans re-created and re-uploaded P.T., the game is still unavailable officially.
4 ༒ The Slaughte༒ring Grounds
The Slaughtering Grounds is a first-person shooter that was released on Steam in 2014. The game has the player kil🌞l zombies and was generally notꦏ that unique or interesting of a game. It didn't get too much attention from anyone - negative or positive - until one critic called it out for its terrible graphics and gameplay.
The developers of the game tried to sue that critic and countless Steam users, but things didn't exactly go their way. After the lawsuit became public, that they would no lo💧nger be working with this developer due to their behavior and the game was delisted.
3 Day One: Garry's Incident 🌺
Day One: Garry's Incident is a PC survival game that was released in 2013. After a YouTuber uploaded a negative review of the game, the developers filed a copyright complaint against them which went horribly🔯 wrong.
Many Steam users pointed out how unfair this use of YouTube's copyright system was and backed up the YouTuber by critiquing the game's graph🦋ics and gameplay. After of boosting their ratings༒ with fake reviews, the game ended up being taken off the marketplace and is no longer available.
2 Teenage Mut🍌an🏅t Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise is one that has been popular for decades. Kids today love the newer cartoon and that grew up in the 80s and 90s. Unfortunately, the TMNT game Mutants in Manhattan is one that fans can no longer play.
Mutants in Manhattan was released on a variety of platforms in 2016 and was delisted from all di༺gital storefronts in 2017. Although it's not clear why the game was removed after only a year, physical versions of the game remained on store shelves.
1 🐷 Scott Pil༺grim Vs. The World: The Game
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game is a side-scrolling game based on the graphic nov🐼el series and movie by the same name. This game was rele🍌ased in 2010 on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The game followed the same basic plotline as the graphic novels and the movie, meaning that it was pretty popular with people who liked those Scott Pilgrim stories. Unfortunately, in 2014, the game was removed from the digital marketplaces without much of an explanat🐓ion.