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  0xC0ncord
  About one of my favorite racing games of all time: "The game could have been removed for a number of reasons, including the closure of developer Bizarre Creations in early 2011, but the most likely cause was expired licensing of the real-world cars featured in the game."[1]To me this is one of the most egregious examples of how licensing massively hurts consumers. The game is fully playable offline (and online with a patch) but cannot legally be sold because of an arbitrary restriction limiting the use of likeness of virtual cars in the game.[1] https://delistedgames.com/blur/
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  shantara
  Prey (2006) https://delistedgames.com/prey/Great game, with some innovative level design involving portals and gravity manipulation. Delisted back in 2009 and impossible to acquire legally to this day on PC.
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  AnotherGoodName
  It's funny that 3 different Space Hulk games are here.I actually thought Space Hulk (2013) was amazing but it's hard for a developer to keep up the yearly license payments on any Warhammer franchise. So it's not available for purchase anymore. It got ~75% on reviews on release but i like the board game and it was true to the board game so i personally loved it. Link on the steam store (the site should have these) https://store.steampowered.com/app/242570/Space_Hulk/Fwiw if you have one of these games they are still in your Steam library. I still get to play the above game. I just can't easily play with others anymore nor can i suggest they purchase that game. I'm a little surprised it still runs fine given no updates but yay for backwards compatibility.In general a theme for lists like these are licensing. If a developer has to pay a franchise licensing fee it's going to stop being worthwhile at some point. Take note if you're a developer. It's hard to get visibility without being tied to a franchise (Eg. Larian had to do it with Baldurs Gate 3) but it'll cut into profits massively. Even Larian are never doing it again.
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  jandrese
  Mostly seems to be games where the licensing deal expired or the company folded. I was expecting to see a few more from the adult category that got delisted because someone noticed TOS violating material and reported it.There was a recent video about Horses, which admittedly was a pre-release, but was technically available for download and is now gone. It is not on this list.
• vunderba
  I initially assumed this was related to the delisting of NSFW related games on Steam due to payment processor pressure as a result of the Australian group Collective Shout.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout#2025_Steam_an...
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  Shorel
  Great resource. I have a fair number of them purchased.-- Back to the Future: The Game-- Blur-- Crysis-- Dark Souls-- Dirt 2-- Dirt 3-- Dirt Showdown-- F1 2010 - 2015-- F1 Race Stars-- Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, San Andreas, Vice City-- Grid (2019)-- Metro 2033-- Prey (2006)-- Project CARS-- ToCA Race Driver 3-- Transformers: War for Cybertron-- Transformers: Fall of CybertronIn most cases the games were delisted because of expiring licenses for cars, tracks, music, or studios being purchased by another studio.It's a bit sad as I consider Crysis and GTA to be an important part of gaming history.
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  FloorEgg
  I was surprised to see that StarForge wasn't on this list, and after looking into it I think it's because after it was delisted someone else published another game named StarForge. I wonder how common that is.
• ekipan
  I'm sad that Platine Dispositif pulled their games. Chelsea Has to Beat the Seven Devils to Death (known more widely in English as Bunny Must Die) was a lot of fun and one day I'd like to play some of their others, but they mostly seem to just release on Switch and Playstation stores in recent years. Their site[1] is getting pretty bitrotted, and their blog has an entry from a month ago[2] talking about their next game displayed in Digital Games Expo 2025. I don't immediately see any mention of Steam or intent to return anywhere.These are in Japanese of course.[1]: https://www.platinedispositif.net/[2]: https://murasame.hatenablog.jp/entry/20251130/1764507793
• bananaboy
  Ahh, there seems to be a distinction between "delisted" and "purchase disabled". This is a list of all games which are no longer available on steam along with the reason: https://steam-tracker.com/
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  lurker_jMckQT99
  What does "delisted" mean in this context?- are they preventing new purchases?- are they preventing the players who purchased the game prior to the delisting to play them at all?- both? something else?
• amiga386
  Seems to have delisted but not unlisted games (e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/302850/Team_Indie/ "At the request of the publisher, Team Indie is unlisted on the Steam store and will not appear in search.")
• some_random
  The older Metro games are of note, while they're available as the Redux versions there are a surprising number of non-graphical differences between the original THQ published versions and the graphical updates.
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  bananaboy
  This can’t be all of them. My business partner and I delisted our tiny (unsuccessful) indie game after we wound up our company and our game doesn’t show up here.
• debugnik
  Lost Planet 2 was delisted in 2021 because it can't be played without patching out Games for Windows Live.The delisting was supposed to be temporary until Capcom removed the dependency, like they did with other titles on the same engine, but so far they haven't bothered restoring this one.
• markx2
  If you want to follow and get notice : https://steamcommunity.com/groups/RemGC"This is a place for those who have a moderately large collection of removed games (games no longer available for purchase on steam) to gather. For most, this group will just be about the name, showing off that you own what others no longer can. For others, it can be a resource to find what you once believed could no longer be found."
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  ivolimmen
  I loved Blacklight Retribution. It's been so long delisted that my most unique achievements from it disappeared from my profile. One was 0.01% of all players.
• throwatdem12311
  Transformers: War For Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and (especially) Devastation.Three games I will cherish in my Steam Library (and my physical PS3 copy of War for Cybertron). Anything Transformers based since these have been mediocre at best.
• gegtik
  DiRT games hit hard
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  smcl
  Jesus I thought it'd be obscure games but I randomly scrolled down and saw Duke Nukem games, a bunch of the F1 series, Jet Set Radio, Lumines, Mafia III, MultiVersus (don't care about this I just remember _so many_ people being paid to stream this, there was a lot of money behind it) and Wolfenstein (2009). I had no idea this was so prevalent
• RobRivera
  I just want Poker Night, and Poker Night 2 :(
• Rzor
  Transformers: Fall/War of Cybertron went away and never came back. I'm still waiting...
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  agentifysh
  interesting i bought bloodrayne a long time agoif i delete it i lose the game right?
• anon
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  jokoon
  death stranding is in thereI remember that many games I had in my wishlist became "blank" or removed, and I was unable to know what games were those
• Y_Y
  See also Stop Skeletons From Fighting's Delisted series: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ak-oNNRK_vBhwW22i0h73AR...
• TechSquidTV
  It's missing The Stomping Land
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  kgwxd
  I bought my 2 yo a copy of Rocket League when they announced it would only be available through Epic (no Linux support) once it went F2P, just in case he was going to get into it. Best game in the world, but I'm not subjecting myself, or my kid, to Windows and the Epic store just to get at it.I'm quite surprised Epic hasn't done something to kill off the Steam version yet, but I expect the recent bot problem is going to give them the "justification" they need to put EAC in it. Even if it "works" on Linux after that, I'll be in constant fear that my account, with hundreds of dollars into the game, will get banned without recourse.
• pedrohlc
  I love how they decided to sell a new Mortal Kombat arcade collection instead of removing GFWL and reinstating the older one. /s
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  cwmoore
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• user3939382
  We should just setup a review portal at the Dept of State, Visa, MasterCard, maybe moms against drunk driving, a few others, and devs can sanity check their game idea before submitting to steam