About a week ago, I tried to download one of their games but for some reason, every single game/app they ever released is completely missing from the Google Play Store. I can’t even download them through my library. I tried sending them an email but they never responded. Both their social media and their website seem to be abandoned and mention nothing about their sudden disappearance. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a developer just completely disappear like that, does anyone know what happened to them?

Also, because it’s relevant to a recent movement* and I feel like mentioning it, the game I was trying to download was Lophis Roguelike:Card RPG game. I bought this game a few years ago but it didn’t work on my tablet, so I added it to my backlog of android games, thinking that I could eventually try it on a different device. Seeing that this game is no longer officially available, this is a game that I payed for but never got to actually play.

*The movement I’m referring to is stopkillinggames.

  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Maybe they closed down and had to remove everything due to copyright problems/sales weren’t worth having to do costumer services or something like that.

    I bet it’s not that uncommon either. Just yesterday, I remembered a game I saw years ago called ‘green project’ that was in early access at the time and wanted to check it out. so I went to look for it but it was gone despite the game still being sold on steam and being on version 1.4.2, but the last update was on 2022.

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      7 months ago

      I mean, if that was the case, why didn’t they mention that anywhere and wouldn’t their website also be shut down as well?

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        7 months ago

        why didn’t they mention that anywhere

        Perhaps it Happened too fast to react, or maybe they didn’t really care. It’s Likely the latter.

        wouldn’t their website also be shut down as well?

        Not really. Hosting a website cost pennies and they probably want to keep the domain name.