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.
As discovered by Steamgifts forum member HappyCatEW, 14 games from Disney vanished from Steam earlier this week. While games being delisted isn't uncommon, publishers generally give people a heads up so they can pick it up before they leave the store.
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.
Disney has not released a statement, but if I had to (100% seriously) speculate, it's clearly a blood sacrifice to allow Cory in the House to become the top rated game of all time.
