10 Video Games That DIED in 2024

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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're taking a look at 10 notable games that suddenly disappeared

00:12from storefronts in 2024.

00:14Hope you were able to grab these before they were delisted.

00:26Before we begin, we publish new videos all week long.

00:28So be sure to subscribe to Mojo Plays and ring the bell to be notified about our latest

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00:34Sonic Generations

00:46Since its release way back in 2011, Sonic Generations was only commercially available

00:50on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

00:54It was also on the Nintendo 3DS before that platform's storefront was closed back in

00:582023.

00:59However, things changed drastically for the title in 2024 after Sega announced a remastered

01:06version, Sonic Cross Shadow Generations.

01:18A little over a month before the remaster's release, Sega delisted Sonic Generations from

01:22Windows, Steam, and Xbox's storefronts.

01:26Although with Steam it isn't completely delisted, you can still acquire the game,

01:31albeit through a bundle, that includes almost every single Sonic game available on Steam.

01:37So there's your loophole if you didn't buy it a la carte before the delisting.

01:49DC Duel Force

01:57In case you didn't hear about this game, and we wouldn't be surprised if you didn't,

02:01DC Duel Force was Warner Bros. and DC's answer to Marvel's Snap.

02:06It was a card game where you played different DC heroes and villains, each with their own

02:10abilities to help you dominate the board.

02:13But there was one rule that DC forgot about here.

02:16You gotta keep it simple.

02:24What makes Marvel's Snap so appealing is how you can jump in and out of a match within

02:28a few short minutes, and play a game with rules that are so easy to understand, it's

02:33comical.

02:34DC Duel Force is slow, monotonous, and overly complicated with its rules and abilities.

02:40Trust me, I played through the tutorial, it took forever.

02:44It makes every turn feel like a slog with not a lot happening.

02:48Had players been given more unique actions to take on their turn, the pacing could have

02:53been forgiven.

02:54DC Duel Force didn't even last a year before it was shut down in February 2024.

03:06Spec Ops The Line

03:17At the very start of 2024, folks were already freaking out about delistings, primarily because

03:22Spec Ops The Line was one of the very first games to be delisted.

03:26Well, at least in 2024, but you get what we're saying.

03:30This installment in the Spec Ops franchise has long and often been regarded as one of

03:36the best shooter games ever made, with its compelling narrative and dark subject matter,

03:41as well as the stellar performance by famed voice actor Nolan North.

03:46Unfortunately, Spec Ops The Line was delisted in January 2024 due to expired licensing agreements,

04:01those licenses most likely involving copyrighted music.

04:05Director 2K has yet to clarify the exact reason why this delisting occurred, but here's

04:10hoping the silence leads to either a sudden relisting or perhaps a remaster of some kind.

04:24Forza Horizon 4

04:34Titles are no stranger to the Forza games, as new Horizons and Motorsport installments

04:39come in and licenses for older titles are left to expire shortly after new releases

04:44are out.

04:45The renowned Xbox One title Forza Horizon 4 was a victim of this cycle last year.

04:58In June 2024, Microsoft announced that it was removing the game's DLC immediately,

05:03and the base game would only be available for purchase until December 15.

05:08On top of that, Microsoft sent out free codes to Game Pass users, former and current at

05:13the time, who played Forza Horizon 4, allowing them to forever access the game even after

05:19the delisting.

05:20Within its six-year lifespan, Forza Horizon 4 managed to amass more than 24 million players,

05:27though sales numbers are still unknown at the time of this video.

05:39The Crew

05:50The Crew was another racing title that fell victim to the vicious cycle of delistings.

05:55Ubisoft made the announcement in December 2023 and told players the closure was due

05:59to, quote, upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints, end quote.

06:06Much like Forza Horizon 4, The Crew and its sequels are loaded with cars from real manufacturers,

06:12as well as tons of copyrighted music.

06:15Racing games like The Crew are always delisted for either one of these two reasons, sometimes

06:20both.

06:26It's why you don't see Project Gotham Racing commercially available or any of the

06:34previous Gran Turismo games on sale anymore.

06:37That information didn't stop some folks from raising hell about the closure.

06:42The Crew 2 and The Crew Motor Fest were review-bombed relentlessly, and France's General Directorate

06:48of Competition Consumption and Repression of Frauds received floods of complaints.

06:59One interesting note about this whole situation, according to the stats on SteamDB, after July

07:052018 all the way until the delisting in March 2024, The Crew only ever reached an average

07:11of 117.4 players.

07:17Six years, 68 months, and only an average of 117 people were playing The Crew.

07:23Do with that information as you will.

07:25Samurai Jack, battle through time.

07:35Throughout 2024, a handful of small developers were sweating as Warner Bros. spent so much

07:40time trying to delist games published under Adult Swim Games, for whatever reason.

07:46Some were saved with new publishers, while others were not so lucky.

07:51Samurai Jack, Battle Through Time was among the unlucky ones.

07:54Though it wasn't the smash hit we were hoping for, Battle Through Time was still excellent

07:59with its combat mechanics, character animations, and faithfulness to the show.

08:08Unfortunately, Jack's time came to an end when the game was delisted suddenly on December

08:1723rd, 2024.

08:19Unsurprisingly, resellers have now jacked up their prices for physical copies of the

08:24game.

08:33X Defiant Ubisoft threw another one of their games under

08:43the bus in 2024, but this time it wasn't an ancient online game, no, this one had just

08:49been released.

08:50X Defiant received a somewhat positive, yet still lukewarm reception when it launched

08:55in May 2024.

08:57Players overall thought it was decent, but still needed more time in the oven with its

09:00odd level geometry and technical issues.

09:07Sadly, a longer lifespan just wasn't in the cards for X Defiant, because after a few

09:16months of rumors were floating around about the game's closure, Ubisoft made its decision

09:21in December 2024.

09:23Effective immediately, the game would be delisted from all storefronts and would not be accepting

09:28new players.

09:29Pre-existing players could enjoy the game until servers were pulled in June 2025.

09:43LittleBigPlanet 3 With the first two games already been lost

09:54to time a few years back, it was only a matter of time until LittleBigPlanet 3 would see

09:59its head on the chopping block.

10:01Sure enough, Sony made the announcement in October 2024.

10:06After October 31st, LittleBigPlanet 3 and all of its DLC would be removed from the PlayStation

10:11Store.

10:20According to the sales data leaked from the Insomniac Data Breach in late 2023, LittleBigPlanet

10:253 managed to sell more than 5 million units within the decade it spent on the market.

10:30While resellers haven't marked up their prices to an absurd degree just yet, we all

10:34know they will as time marches on.

10:47Concord Sackboy wasn't the only Sony character

10:59to get a kick in the pants in 2024.

11:02In fact, the entire cast of Concord was shoved out the door the second they walked in.

11:07When the game launched in late August 2024, nobody was interested in this game.

11:13Not Hero Shooter fans, not FPS players, not even the Sony ponies.

11:24Absolutely nobody from any community had any interest in this game whatsoever.

11:32Sales and player count were so abysmal that Sony removed the game from sale without warning

11:38a mere 11 days after launch.

11:41Stores were shut down two days later, resellers scrambled as physical copies were pulled from

11:46store shelves or straight up thrown in the trash.

11:57For a time, resellers did think this erasure of PlayStation history would suddenly go for

12:03hundreds or thousands of dollars, despite the disc being completely useless now.

12:08Surprisingly, no one was buying into the same hype collectors were.

12:12What was thought to be a solid car payment's worth is now fetching for about $20-30 bucks

12:17now, roughly $10 less than the initial sale price.

12:29And lastly, various Xbox 360 games.

12:42While this is an umbrella entry we don't typically do on most lists, we'd be remiss

12:47to not include the biggest loss of 2024, the Xbox 360 storefront.

12:52Unlike the Nintendo eShop and the proposed PS3 and Vita storefront shutdowns, nobody

12:57seemed to care much about the Xbox 360 store getting unplugged.

13:08A big part of this possibly leads to the fact that many notable 360 games are backwards

13:13compatible on Xbox One and Series XS.

13:17Regardless, Microsoft announced not just the closure, but also waves of deep discounts

13:23on dozens of 360 games that would go until the closure in July 2024.

13:29You could have gotten Darkstalker's Resurrection for $1.50, Prototype for $5, Bulletstorm for

13:34only a couple of dollars, and that was just a small taste of the steep, steep price cuts

13:39that were available.

13:40Here's hoping you grabbed a few more titles one last time beforehand.

13:52Were you able to snag yourself a copy of these games before they evaporated into the

13:56digital ether?

13:57Let us know down in the comments, and be sure to subscribe to Mojo Plays for more great

14:01videos every day.

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