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/

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.

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.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Shout#2025_Steam_an...

-- 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 Cybertron

In 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.

https://delistedgames.com/devotion/

Taken down because a background poster depicted "Xi Jinping Winnie-the-Pooh moron".

I'm glad I found this, as it includes a steam:/ URL that lets me re-install it if I'd like to play it again.

These are in Japanese of course.

[1]: https://www.platinedispositif.net/

[2]: https://murasame.hatenablog.jp/entry/20251130/1764507793

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.

"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."

- 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?

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.

I remember that many games I had in my wishlist became "blank" or removed, and I was unable to know what games were those

if i delete it i lose the game right?

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.