List of Telltale games that are unavailable for purchase on Steam (and where to find them)

Hi Robby. The Walking Dead series was removed from purchase before the thread was made. Are you sure you saw a purchase tag on those games?

Are you on the West Coast?

I certainly hope so. How ironic that I wanted to wait for the upcoming Winter Sale, in order to purchase Tales of Monkey Island. Just my luck...

I highly doubt it. They are licensed IPs. Once they are gone, they are gone.

TWD is the only one that might stay alive for longer.

+1

Chapter 1 and 2 are very funny

i think some of the newer ones like batman were picked up by someone as they know those WILL make money.

telltale went belly up

same...
but I don't think they will be gone forever.
Someone will buy the rights for it.

RIP

those will be back they were finding that a home (to be finished) before they helped their employees

They reduced the base price for most of the games

There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff going on right now. There probably won't be any kind of official announcement or big discount sales like you would see in a Steam summer sale.

Telltale has been liquidated, so nobody remains to make an announcement.

it's probably part of the licensing arrangemen

Too many employees, plus this:

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It seems to simply have been a case of a company growing too fast, and not really knowing what to do with their newfound success. They started hiring a lot more people, and started really churning out games, but few of their games ended up being successful enough for it to be sustainable, and by the time they realized what was going on, it was already too late. After the success of The Walking Dead, the top brass thought they had stumbled upon a winning formula, so they wanted all their other games to be like The Walking Dead, but in trying to repeat their success, they saturated the market, and people kind of lost interest. On top of all that, quality went downhill, with bugs, poor optimization and generally rushed products with stories that often felt a bit sloppy made people lose faith in Telltale.

My guess: licenses. Those can get pretty expensive, so what for any other company would be great sales numbers ends up not being enough for them.

The ability to purchase it has been gone for awhile now. The demo is still available. If you want the demo you probably want to download it before it's gone.

That was gone for a long time. Doesjn't have anything to do with the current situation.

The studio is dead and the games go with it,presumably until someone else gets the rights to sell them.

I'd lean towards probably not. I'm being generous with the word probably btw.

wouldn't be so sure - according to reports I've read besides TWD and Minecraft they games didn't turn a profit - because they had very expensive licences. And now keep in mind, that as it's licensed product it's not just a case like with THQ of new publisher buying rights to older games, new publisher would also need to get licence for very popular and expensive IP - why would they if thewy already know the game did not sell enough even at release, less likely a few years later.

400 hours? you just saved yourself some time