Disney delists 14 Steam games without warning, with movie licensed games and LucasArts titles getting the axe

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Disney has suddenly delisted 14 games without warning, so if you were waiting for a deep sale on Disney Planes, you're sadly out of luck.

When it comes to delisted games, there's no one quite like Disney. While usually the fault of licenses with other publishers running out, like with older Marvel vs Capcom releases or 2014's Deadpool, there's a ton of games under the Disney banner that just do not exist anymore. And when you count Fox titles like the myriad of Simpsons games and the banger X-Men Origins: Wolverine, that list is even longer, and it keeps on growing.

In this case, these titles include games as old as 1992's Stunt Island and 1997's Hercules (or, to use its actual title, Disney's Hercules Action Game) to ones as recent as Disney Fairies: Tinker Bell's Adventure from 2014. While the majority of these are licensed games based on films, it unfortunately also extends to some LucasArts titles like the 2003 shooter Armed and Dangerous, world building sim Afterlife, and – one of the studio's final internally developed games – Lucidity.

But regardless of their quality, games being unceremoniously dumped is terrible for preservation's sake, and given these games don't have the fanbase similar to the likes of Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 or Marvel Ultimate Alliance, the likelihood of them returning probably isn't too high – and as shown by Ultimate Alliance, even if they do come back, they may not stick around.

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Scott McCrae
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Scott has been freelancing for over three years across a number of different gaming publications, first appearing on GamesRadar+ in 2024. He has also written for the likes of PC Gamer, Eurogamer, VG247, Play, TechRadar, and others. He's typically rambling about Metal Gear Solid, God Hand, or any other PS2-era titles that rarely (if ever) get sequels.

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