Retro PS5 Game is Being Delisted and we Don't Know Why, Steam Survives

A very well-received retro-style game that released earlier this year is already being delisted from the PlayStation Store in December, and nobody can seem to figure out why.

There are a lot of reasons why a game may be delisted from a storefront. The most common one is that certain intellectual property rights expire, so, rather than pay to extend said rights, publishers take them off of storefronts to save a buck or two.

Sometimes a publisher simply goes out of business, online servers are permanently shut down, or (more recently) certain security vulnerabilities are found in games that necessitate temporarily removing them. That being said, sometimes there’s no reason - or, at least, not a reason we can discern.

Case in point, the console versions of the retro-style platformer titled