Several Games Published by Cartoon Network Got Removed from Storefronts

This holiday season is already feeling colder due to a wave of layoffs. And making it colder is the news that Warner Bros. Discovery has quietly delisted a number of Cartoon Network games from major digital storefronts, including Steam and Nintendo.

This was first spotted by Wario64, who posted on Bluesky that four games, including OK K.O.! Let’s Play Heroes, Steven Universe: Save the Light, Steven Universe: Unleash the Light, and Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, have been removed from Steam. Besides these titles, two more games were found to have the same sad fate: Finn and Jake's Epic Quest and Adventure Time: Magic Man's Head Games. Except Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time, which was published by Adult Swim, all of them were published by Cartoon Network.

The removal occurred a few hours ago, according to the "last update" time on SteamDB. The Steam pages of these affected games are still accessible, but they all show a notice and a "sunset announcement" from the publishers, saying these games are no longer available for sale since December 23 — and that means there was no prior notice for this action. So far, there isn’t an official announcement regarding the delistings from either Cartoon Network or its parent company, Warner Bros.

If this news sounds familiar to you, it’s because this is the second time this year that Warner Bros. pulled off titles. Back in March, it decided to let Small Radios Big Televisions, as well as a few other titles that were published by Adult Swim Games, which is a brand of Cartoon Network, be "retired" from Steam. This action resulted in criticism from developers and fans, and finally, Warner Bros. changed its mind and returned full rights to the developers so the targeted games would remain safe and sound. 

Though the event had a happy ending, it still raised people’s concerns over the status of Cartoon Network. In July, #RIPCartoonNetwork hashtag took over Twitter, which presented some fans’ sentiment that the beloved animation studio and its production arm, Cartoon Network Studios, were essentially dead. To learn what was going on back then, read our previous coverage.