15 more Disney games delisted from Steam, including the original Star Wars: Dark Forces and 1997's Outlaws

Darth Vader in a cutscene from Dark Forces. — (Image credit: Disney)

Three months after 14 Disney games were delisted from Steam without warning, the scythe has returned to cut down a few more. As caught by the roving eye of SteamDB, 15 more games under (some form of) the Disney brand were summarily delisted from the Steam store earlier today. Here's the full list:

The original Dark Forces and Outlaws—both of which have received Nightdive remasters—might be missed by the odd fan who never bothered to replace their CD versions with a Steam copy, but for the most part? I imagine most of the people who will ever want these games already have them.

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The odd one out, like I said, is Planet of the Apes. It's the only game in the list not to have "Disney" in its publisher box on the store page, it was released in 2018, and it got an update in June last year. It falls under the 20th Century Games rubric, the publishing arm of the Disney-owned 20th Century Fox. Where most of the games in this list feel like they might simply be lost to time in their Steam form, I'd be surprised if Planet of the Apes, with its oh-so-recent update and relatively recent release, was left to languish.

A screenshot from Outlaws showing a tall man on a horse — Outlaws is outta here. (Image credit: Nightdive)

Anyway, here's the part where I engage in what we in the trade call baseless speculation. Remember Disney's $1.5 billion investment in Epic, and how Epic is reportedly cooking up a bunch of Disney games, including an extraction shooter? Perhaps a fruit of this blossoming partnership will be Disney games becoming Epic Games Store exclusives. Don't shoot the messenger.

One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times. He'll play pretty much anything, and has written far too much on everything from visual novels to Assassin's Creed. His most profound loves are for CRPGs, immersive sims, and any game whose ambition outstrips its budget. He thinks you're all far too mean about Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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