Three months after 14 Disney video games have been delisted from Steam with out warning, the scythe has returned to chop down just a few extra. As caught by the roving eye of SteamDB, 15 extra video games underneath (some type of) the Disney model have been summarily delisted from the Steam retailer earlier at this time. Here’s the total record:
The unique Dark Forces and Outlaws—each of which have obtained Nightdive remasters—might be missed by the odd fan who never bothered to replace their CD versions with a Steam copy, but for the most part? I imagine most of the people who will ever want these games already have them.
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The odd one out, like I said, is Planet of the Apes. It’s the only game in the list not to have “Disney” in its publisher box on the store page, it was released in 2018, and it got an update in June last year. It falls under the 20th Century Games rubric, the publishing arm of the Disney-owned 20th Century Fox. Where most of the games in this list feel like they might simply be lost to time in their Steam form, I’d be surprised if Planet of the Apes, with its oh-so-recent update and relatively recent release, was left to languish.
Anyway, here’s the part where I engage in what we in the trade call baseless speculation. Remember Disney’s $1.5 billion investment in Epic, and how Epic is reportedly cooking up a bunch of Disney games, including an extraction shooter? Perhaps a fruit of this blossoming partnership will be Disney games becoming Epic Games Store exclusives. Don’t shoot the messenger.