Months after the company officially closed its doors, leading to masses of lay offs, missed payments and concerns about the future of many developers, Telltale Games titles have started to disappear from online stores. This is a surprise that no one saw coming, but typically this kind of action is to do with licensing problems after a company's closure.
Telltale games as a longstanding PC game developer known for its point-and click adventure games. It started off with reasonable success using third-party licenses to craft games based on Sam & Max, Wallace & Gromit and Homestar Runner, but it hit it big by securing the license to make a series of conversational choice games based on the Walking Dead franchise. That series pioneered episodic game releases and sold millions upon millions of copies.
But it wasn't enough. After years of continued successes with The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and a Batman series of games, Telltale games shut its doors in 2018 after major financial trouble. Skybound Entertainment, Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman's studio, picked up the slack to finish the last season of The Walking Dead, but no one knew what would become of the other games.
Certainly nobody expected them to be dropped from sale platforms altogether, but that appears to be what's happening. At the time of writing you can no longer buy any Telltale games on GoG and they will be delisted entirely by the 27th. The same will happen on Steam too, according to PCGamesN, bringing a curt end to a collection of unique games in the PC gaming space.
We'll always have Life is Strange, I suppose.
