PlatinumGames the well-known studio behind Bayonetta, NieR: Automata and The Fantastic 101is pulling the plug on its well-liked action-puzzler World of Demons. The sport will disappear from Apple Arcade on January 18, turning into unavailable on that date and turning into unplayable quickly after on February 1.
The information was made public by way of a perfunctory weblog publish which reads “World of Demons will not be out there to obtain on Apple Arcade as of January 18, 2024. Please see the schedule under for extra particulars. We prolong our gratitude to all gamers who’ve loved the sport since launch.”
The sport – Platinum’s first transfer into cell – has had a tortuous path to market having initially been launched as a free to play sport by writer DeNA in 2018. Impressed by the look of Clover Studio’s console hit Okami it was initially launched as a free-to-play sport and delicate launched on iOS within the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia in that yr.
The sport obtained no updates all through its keep in delicate launch and was eliminated in September 2018. It was rumoured that – provided that a few of Platinum’s founders had beforehand been a Clover Studios and labored on Okami – the sport’s brisk removing could also be the results of some behind-the-scenes wrangling.
Again from the useless – however not for lengthy
Nonetheless, World of Demons efficiently got here again from the useless, being 100% rewritten for iOS and turning into an Apple Arcade unique to fan acclaim in April 2021
Talking to IGN in 2021, Platinum studio head Atsushi Inaba defined that “We had the chance to launch the sport for Apple Arcade, and as an alternative of simply making a number of small changes for the brand new platform, we determined to take this chance to rebuild the sport from the bottom up.”
Now, after years of labor and no different path to market the sport will successfully stop to exist come February 1.
