“New gross sales of Warhammer Quest will finish shortly on Steam”, a latest information publish for the turn-based dungeon crawler tersely says. “Thanks for all of your assist 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 kind 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 dissatisfied feedback from gamers on the Steam discussion board, the official Chilled Mouse account stated, “I do not suppose it is applicable (or in all probability even allowed below our settlement with them) to debate the small print of the license. However I can say that Video games Workshop have been implausible 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 “will not be tied to this announcement” and can stay on sale, although it hasn’t stated when gross sales will finish, if will probably be placed on low cost earlier than then, or whether or not Warhammer Quest can be faraway from GOG as nicely, and hasn’t replied to requests for remark.
The delisting of Warhammer Quest follows the elimination of Warhammer 40,000: House Wolf on October 12, and final 12 months 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.
