10 Video Games That DIED in 2024

10 Games That DIED in 2024

Welcome to MojoPlays, and today, we’re taking a look at 10 notable games that suddenly disappeared from storefronts in 2024. Hope you were able to grab these before they were delisted!

“Sonic Generations” (2011) & Multiple

Since its release way back in 2011, “Sonic Generations” was only commercially available on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. It was also on the Nintendo 3DS before that platform’s storefront was closed back in 2023. However, things changed for the title in 2024 after SEGA announced a remastered version, “Sonic X Shadow Generations”. A little over a month before the remaster’s release, SEGA delisted “Sonic Generations” from Windows, Steam, and Xbox’s storefronts. Although, with Steam, it isn’t completely delisted; you can still acquire the game albeit through a bundle that includes almost every single Sonic game available on Steam. So, there’s your loophole if you didn’t buy it a la carte in time.

“DC Dual Force” (2023)

In case you didn’t hear about this game (and we wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t), “DC Dual Force” was Warner Brothers and DC’s answer to “Marvel Snap”. It was a card game where you played different DC heroes and villains, each with their own abilities to help you dominate the board. But there was one rule that DC forgot about here: you gotta keep it simple. What makes “Marvel Snap” so appealing is how you can jump in and out of a match within a few short minutes and play a game with rules that are so easy to understand it’s comical. “DC Dual Force” is slow, monotonous, and overly complicated with its rules and abilities. It makes every turn feel like a slog with not a lot happening. Had players been given more unique actions to take on their turn, the pacing could be forgiven. “DC Dual Force” didn’t even last a year before it was shut down in February 2024.

“Spec Ops: The Line” (2012)

At the very start of 2024, folks were already freaking out about delistings, primarily because “Spec Ops: The Line” was one of the very first games to be delisted that year. This installment in the “Spec Ops” franchise has long and often been regarded as one of the best shooter games ever made with its compelling narrative and dark subject matter as well as the stellar performance by famed voice actor Nolan North. Unfortunately, “Spec Ops: The Line” was delisted in January 2024 due to expired licensing agreements, those licenses most likely involving copyrighted music. Publisher 2K has yet to clarify the exact reason why this delisting occurred, but here’s hoping the silence leads to either an eventual relisting or perhaps a remaster of some kind.

“Forza Horizon 4” (2018)

Delistings are no stranger to the “Forza” games as new “Horizons” and “Motorsport” installments come in and licenses for older titles are left to expire shortly after new releases. The renowned Xbox One title “Forza Horizon 4” was a victim of this cycle last year. In June 2024, Microsoft announced that it was removing the game’s DLC immediately and the base game would only be available for purchase until December 15. On top of that, Microsoft sent out free codes to Game Pass users former and current at the time who played “Forza Horizon 4”, allowing them to forever access the game even after the delisting. Within its six year lifespan, “Forza Horizon 4” managed to amass more than twenty-four million players, though sales numbers are still unknown.

“The Crew” (2014)

“The Crew” was another racing title that fell victim to the vicious cycle of delistings. Ubisoft made the announcement in December 2023 and told players the closure was due to “upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints”. Much like “Forza Horizon 4”, “The Crew” and its sequels are loaded with cars from real manufacturers as well as tons of copyrighted music. Racing games like “The Crew” are always delisted for either one of these two reasons, sometimes both. It’s why you don’t see “Project Gotham Racing” commercially available or any previous “Gran Turismo” games. That information didn’t stop some folks from raising hell about the closure. “The Crew 2” and “The Crew: Motorfest” were review-bombed relentlessly, and France’s General Directorate of Competition, Consumption, & Repression of Frauds received floods of complaints. One interesting note: according to the stats on SteamDB, after July 2018 all the way until delisting, “The Crew” only reached an average of 117 players. Six years. Sixty-eight months. And only an average of one hundred seventeen people were playing “The Crew”.

“Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time” (2020)

Throughout 2024, a handful of smaller developers were sweating as Warner Brothers spent so much time trying to delist games published under Adult Swim Games. Some were saved with new publishers while others weren’t so lucky. “Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time” was among the unlucky ones. Though it wasn’t the smash hit we were hoping for, “Battle Through Time” was still excellent with its combat mechanics, character animation, and faithfulness to the show. Unfortunately, Jack’s time came to an end when the game was delisted on December 23, 2024. Unsurprisingly, resellers have now jacked up their prices for physical copies of the game.

“XDefiant” (2024)

Ubisoft threw another one of their games under the bus in 2024, but this time, it wasn’t an ancient online game - it had just been released. “XDefiant” received a somewhat positive yet still lukewarm reception when it launched in May 2024. Players overall thought it was decent but still needed more time in the oven with its odd level geometry and technical issues. Sadly, a longer lifespan wasn’t in the cards for “XDefiant” after a few months of rumors floating around about the game’s closure, Ubisoft made its decision in December 2024. Effective immediately, the game would be delisted from all storefronts and would not be accepting new players. Pre-existing players could enjoy the game until servers were pulled in June 2025.

“LittleBigPlanet 3” (2014)

With the first two games already been lost to time a couple years ago, it was only a matter of time until “LittleBigPlanet 3” would see its head on the chopping block. Sure enough, Sony made that announcement in October 2024. After October 31, “LittleBigPlanet 3” and all of its DLC would be removed from the PlayStation Store. According to the sales data leaked from the Insomniac data breach in late 2023, “LittleBigPlanet 3” managed to sell more than five million units within the decade it spent on the market. While resellers haven’t marked up their prices to an absurd degree yet, we all know they will as time marches on.

“Concord” (2024)

Sackboy wasn’t the only Sony character to get a kick in the pants in 2024. In fact, the entire cast of “Concord” was shoved out the door the second they walked in. When the game launched in late August 2024, no one was interested. Not hero shooter fans. Not FPS players. Not even the Sony ponies! Absolutely no one had any interest in the game whatsoever. Sales and player count were so abysmal that Sony removed the game from sale without warning a mere eleven days after launch. Servers were shut down two days later. Resellers scrambled as physical copies were pulled from store shelves or straight up thrown in dumpsters. For a time, resellers thought this erasure of PlayStation history would suddenly go for hundreds or thousands of dollars despite the disc being completely useless now. Unsurprisingly, no one was buying into the same hype collectors were. What was thought to be a solid car payment’s worth is now fetching for about twenty to thirty bucks now.

Various Xbox 360 Games

While this is an umbrella entry we don’t typically do, we’d be remiss to not include the biggest loss of 2024: the Xbox 360 storefront. Unlike the Nintendo eShop and the proposed PS3 and Vita storefront shutdowns, no one seemed to care much about the Xbox 360 storefront getting unplugged. A big part of this possibly leads to the fact that many notable Xbox 360 are backwards compatible on Xbox One and Xbox Series XS. Regardless, Microsoft announced not just the closure, but also waves of deep discounts on dozens of Xbox 360 games that would go until the closure in July 2024. “Darkstalkers: Resurrection” for a buck fifty. “Prototype” for five. “Bulletstorm” for a couple of dollars. And that was just a small taste of the steep, STEEP price cuts that were available. Here’s hoping you grabbed a few more titles one last time beforehand!

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