Disney yank a bunch of games from Steam, including bonafide classics Star Wars: Dark Forces, Outlaws and High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance
15 in total, including 2005's Chicken Little
A bunch of older games linked to or published by Disney have just been delisted from Steam in one fell swoop, with the original 90s versions of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Outlaws among their number. These 15 make up the second round of Disney-related games to be yanked from the storefront this year, with 14 having gotten the hook back in January.
As caught in SteamDB's rolling ticker of recent Steam events and spotted by social poster Wario64, the latest round of delistings all flooded in around 1PM BST today, April 14th. Affected are the following:
- Star Wars: Dark Forces (Classic, 1995)
- Outlaws + A Handful of Missions (Classic, 1997)
- Star Wars Rebellion
- Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier
- Disney Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
- Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure
- Disney Universe
- Disney G-Force
- Disney Tangled
- Disney's Chicken Little
- Disney Alice in Wonderland
- Disney's Treasure Planet: Battle of Procyon
- Disney Bolt
- Disney Pixar Brave: The Video Game
- Disney High School Musical 3: Senior Year Dance
All of these games wear their Disney link on their sleeves, aside perhaps from Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, which was released in 2018 by Imaginati Studios and 20th Century Games. The former 20th Century Fox are owned by Disney, though, so that tracks even if Planet of the Apes still stands out as being far newer than these mostly 90s and mid-2000s games.
As for the oldest of the bunch, both Dark Forces and Outlaws have been remastered by Nightdive, so you can grab them in those forms if you're keen to give them a go.
Why all the Disney delistings? Legal wranglings around liscencing would be the usual culprit to point to as a likely candidate, but it was also recently reported that Epic have a Disney extraction shooter in the works. Get ready to potentially default dance before headshotting some noobs as Chicken Little, I guess.