Summary
- Publisher Ratalaika is delisting six Xbox games in the coming weeks, starting with Outer Terror at the end of March 2025.
- Daggerhood, Gravity Duck, Infestor, League of Evil, and Royal Frontier are also being removed from the Microsoft Store, PlayStation Store, eShop, and Steam in April 2025.
- Developer closures were cited as the reason for the upcoming delistings.
Six Xbox games are being delisted soon, publisher Ratalaika Games has announced. The soon-to-be-removed titles will be pulled from the Xbox/Microsoft Store in stages.
Ratalaika is a Spanish publisher specializing in 2D games. Many of its titles are known to achievement hunters for being relatively easy to 100%.
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The company is now planning to delist six of its Xbox games, TrueAchievements reports. Daggerhood and Gravity Duck are both part of this group, together with Infestor and League of Evil. Sci-fi roguelike Outer Terror is also on the chopping block, as is fantasy RPG Royal Frontier. The first removal will be of Outer Terror, which is scheduled to leave the Microsoft Store at the tail end of March 2025. The rest of these titles are planned to be delisted sometime in April 2025, and may not be pulled all at once.
Ratalaika's Xbox Games Getting Delisted Soon
Ratalaika cited studio closures as the chief reason for the upcoming delistings. Specifically, Outer Terror developer VoxPop Games is shutting down, as is Woblyware, the studio that made the rest of the soon-to-be-delisted titles. Woblyware is a Finnish company that has worked with Ratalaika on several other occasions, with their collaborations also yielding side-scrolling action RPG Devious Dungeon and platformer Random Heroes: Gold Edition. However, neither of these titles is planned to be delisted as a result of Wobyware's closure because Ratalaika managed to acquire their IP rights, which will keep them on digital storefronts for the foreseeable future.
As for the soon-to-be-departing games, Daggerhood, Gravity Duck, Infestor, and League of Evil are all 2D platformers that are estimated to take between 30 minutes and four hours to complete. Each one is priced at $4.99. Outer Terror is the most expensive title from this batch, as it regularly retails for $9.99. The game itself is a sci-fi shooter with procedurally generated levels that tasks players with fighting off waves of weird aliens. The roguelike was envisioned as a tribute to the '80s and '90s horror comic books, as well as B-movies. Lastly, Royal Frontier is a $6.99 2D RPG about defending a settler wagon in a hostile fantasy land. Like Outer Terror, it's estimated to take around six hours to 100%.
As is usually the case with Xbox Store delistings, the removal of these Ratalaika-published titles won't prevent existing owners from downloading and playing them whenever they want, but merely make future purchases impossible. The games are also expected to be delisted from the PlayStation Store, Nintendo eShop, and Steam.
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