10 Video Games Delisted For Insane Reasons
8. A Pirate Version Was Published On Steam - The Sinking City
Frogwares' action-adventure game The Sinking City was released in June 2019, but it ended up being delisted from digital platforms in August 2020 as a result of a dispute between Frogwares and their original publisher, Nacon.
Frogwares claimed that Nacon had missed promised payments to them and also attempted to stake ownership of The Sinking City IP which still belonged to the developer.
Everything seemed to be resolved in February 2021, however, when the game returned to Steam, though Frogwares soon enough made a post urging players not to buy it.
Their reasoning? Nacon republished the game without their permission, downloading The Sinking City from another storefront, Gamesplanet, editing the game's code to conceal its origin, and then reuploading it to Steam.
Frogwares accused Nacon of both hacking and piracy, and after the game was added and removed from Steam numerous times, it was decisively delisted in March 2021 after Frogwares filed a DMCA takedown request.
The game was finally relisted three months later, though the outcome of Frogwares' dispute with Nacon hasn't yet been made public.