10 Video Games So Bad They Were Delisted

In December 2019 an adaptation of the classic tabletop RPG Paranoia was released on Epic Games Store, though roughly six weeks later the game was suddenly removed from the storefront with no explanation given by either developer Black Shamrock or publisher Nacon.

Early reviews weren't promising, with most critics dismissing Paranoia: Happiness Is Mandatory as a shallow, low-effort attempt to adapt the much-loved tabletop game to a new medium.

Yet recently Gamekult unearthed court documents which revealed that the game was released without publisher Nacon securing permission from the original game's creators, Greg Costikyan and Eric Goldberg.

Costikyan and Goldberg, who had played pre-release versions of the video game, felt that it was too buggy to be ready for release, and when Nacon ignored their requests to remove the game from sale, they contacted Epic directly with a DMCA takedown request.

Epic were obliged to comply with the request, Costikyan and Goldberg being the rights holders and all, yet only in recent days has the reason for its removal been discovered.

At present Paranoia still has a listing page on Steam, though its release date is merely listed as "coming soon." One suspects it isn't.