Comedy motion platformer Trover Saves the Universe seems to have been delisted from all platforms with out warning.
As noticed and shared on the ResetEra forum by Lewie Procter, the sport – which was initially launched in Might 2019 – is now not in the stores on the Steam, Epic Games, Meta, Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo digital shops.
Steam database SteamDB reveals that the “app_retired_publisher_request” flag was activated on Monday – that is utilized by publishers or builders to inform Steam {that a} recreation has been ‘retired’ and will now not be bought.
The sport’s developer Squanch Video games didn’t seem to have warned gamers that it was set to be delisted, nor has it offered a purpose for the delisting on any of its official channels.
Trover Saves the Universe was initially launched on PS4 and PlayStation VR in Might 2019, earlier than coming to PC, Switch and Xbox One later that yr, and Oculus Quest in 2020.
The sport is a comedy journey the place the participant points instructions to Trover, a purple monster, directing him via every stage as they attempt to rescue kidnapped canine from an evil alien referred to as Glorkon, who’s sucking the canine’ essence into its eyeholes to realize their energy and finish the universe.
Squanch Video games was co-founded by Rick & Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, who recorded greater than 20 hours of voice performing for the sport.
Roiland resigned from Squanch Games in January 2023, following information that he was going through home violence expenses.
Roiland was charged in 2020 with one depend of home battery with corporal harm and one depend of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit, a cost that got here to gentle in 2023 when Roiland appeared in court docket for a pre-trial listening to.
Though the costs have been later dismissed resulting from inadequate proof, in September 2023 new allegations of sexual assault have been reported in opposition to him.
There isn’t any indication that Roiland’s presence within the recreation is the rationale for its delisting, particularly provided that Excessive on Life – the place Roiland voiced the participant’s ‘important’ gun Kenny – continues to be broadly out there.