For some time there, Sq. Enix Montreal (later rebranded to Onoma) have been making among the finest cellular puzzle video games of all time. Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and Deus Ex Go have been three of the slickest, most difficult video games you can play in your cellphone, and all have gone down as classics of the style. Sadly, one in every of them is about to vanish eternally.
Onoma—who have been abruptly closed earlier this month—introduced earlier at present that plenty of their video games can be “shutting down” in early 2023. Amongst them are Hitman Sniper: The Shadows, which was solely launched final yr, and Deus Ex Go. The studio’s full assertion reads:
Area Battle Champions, Deus Ex GO, Hitman Sniper: The Shadows and House Invaders: Hidden Heroes can be shutting down on January 4th.
The video games can be faraway from the App Retailer/Google Play Retailer on December 1st, and present gamers won’t be able to entry the video games previous January 4th.
Efficient instantly, in-game purchases are stopped. We encourage prior in-game purchases for use earlier than January 4th, as they won’t be refunded.
On behalf of the event staff, we wish to thanks for taking part in our video games.
Notice that these aren’t merely disappearing from these two shops, they’re disappearing, with the video games not capable of be accessed after January 4, even should you’ve already downloaded them. From a private perspective—as somebody who dusts the Go video games off as time-killers yearly or two—that sucks, but it surely’s additionally a tragedy from a video games preservation standpoint.
Individuals made this recreation, folks purchased this recreation and other people loved this recreation, for years, and with the closure of a studio and a few rights altering palms it’s now simply going to stop present in an official capability?
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The closures aren’t affecting Lara Croft Go and Hitman Go, no less than, each of that are additionally obtainable on the PC (Deus Ex Go was as soon as obtainable on the Home windows Retailer, however has since been delisted from there as properly).
