“New gross sales of Warhammer Quest will finish shortly on Steam”, a latest information submit for the turn-based dungeon crawler tersely says. “Thanks for all of your help for this recreation through the years.” Launched in 2015, Warhammer Quest is an adaptation of Video games Workshop’s tabletop recreation of the identical title. A type of Superior Superior Heroquest, it is a midway step between board recreation and RPG that mixes a dark, harmful underworld with an solely barely much less gloomy overworld the place you recuperate on the town and story beats play out.
Sadly, like so many licensed video games, its lifespan is on a timer. Responding to disillusioned feedback from gamers on the Steam discussion board, the official Chilled Mouse account mentioned, “I do not suppose it is acceptable (or in all probability even allowed underneath our settlement with them) to debate the main points of the license. However I can say that Video games Workshop have been unbelievable companions on this recreation for us, they’ve been very beneficiant with the interpretation of the settlement and I actually suppose you are being unfair on them. All good issues come to an finish finally.”
Chilled Mouse additionally clarified that Warhammer Quest 2 “just isn’t tied to this announcement” and can stay on sale, although it hasn’t mentioned when gross sales will finish, if it is going to be placed on low cost earlier than then, or whether or not Warhammer Quest shall be faraway from GOG as nicely, and hasn’t replied to requests for remark.
The delisting of Warhammer Quest follows the removing of Warhammer 40,000: Area Wolf on October 12, and final yr noticed Warhammer 40,000: Regicide and Age of Sigmar: Champions each get delisted—the latter solely three years after launch. It is brutal on the market for licensed video games.