Disney Pulls 14 PC Games From Steam, No Reason Given
Topics: Disney, PC, Retro Gaming, Steam
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Topics: Disney, PC, Retro Gaming, Steam
This is a perplexing one. Disney has delisted 14 classic PC games from Steam, and no one appears to know why.
The unexpected move was originally spotted by SteamGifts user HappyCatEW who listed the 14 delisted titles and I’d urge you to prepare yourself. This list features some bangers.
At the time of writing, all of the following titles are unavailable on Steam: Afterlife, Armed and Dangerous, Cars Radiator Springs Adventures, Chicken Little Ace in Action, Disney Fairies: Tinkerbell’s Adventure, Disney’s Hercules, Disney Planes, Disney Winnie The Pooh, Finding Nemo, Lucidity, Phineas and Ferb: New Inventions, Stunt Island, The Princess and the Frog, and Toy Story Mania.
Visit any of those titles and you’ll be met with something akin to, “Disney’s Hercules is no longer available on the Steam store.”
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For that particular title, it’s not readily available on other platforms, so there’s some real major losses here. It's a matter of what you actually own in 2026, and why these childhood memories can be taken away in an instant.
It’s really difficult to try and work out why this might have happened. Usually, such delistings relate to expired rights issues.
But these games are largely produced without the help of third parties. Disney Winnie The Pooh, for example, is developed by Disney Interactive and published by Disney.
Granted, none of these games are topping any greatest of all-time lists, but they undoubtedly unlock a sense of nostalgia in many of us.
I haven’t sampled them all, but I’ll always have a little space in my heart for Disney’s Hercules and The Princess and the Frog.
Returning to such titles is like catching up with an old friend. It’s just comforting.
“That’s Disney for you. Back i nto the vault,” wrote drzero3.
They make a good point. When I was in my very early teens, I went about collecting and buying Disney DVDs, replacing the defunct VHS tapes of my childhood.
At that time, I couldn’t even buy a classic like Beauty and the Beast in the early 2010s. Disney would “vault” certain films, re-releasing them every few years.
It’s a practice I loathed but thankfully, that phased out and all Disney classics readily became available to buy.
It does lead me to wonder though whether that’s the plan here. Could Disney be delisting these titles only to re-release them in grouped nostalgia collections?
“I just hate it when there’s no heads up. That’s a lot of games to be abruptly pulled,” said a dismayed LootedToaster.
“I really wish they would've given us a heads up before delisting Also, it's probably a good time for me to pick up Wall-E and Toy Story 3, just in case,” Universe_donut wrote.
They make a good point. Let’s hope that no further titles are affected. Perhaps this will turn out to be a great mistake or we’ll get a valid explanation.
For now though, it’s a sad day for Disney fans. We've reached out to Disney for comment.