For a portion there, Square Enix Montreal (later rebranded to Onoma) were making immoderate of the champion mobile puzzle games of each time. Hitman Go, Lara Croft Go and Deus Ex Go were 3 of the slickest, astir challenging games you could play connected your phone, and each person gone down arsenic classics of the genre. Sadly, 1 of them is astir to vanish forever.

Onoma—who were abruptly closed earlier this month—announced earlier contiguous that a fig of their games volition beryllium “shutting down” successful aboriginal 2023. Among them are Hitman Sniper: The Shadows, which was lone released past year, and Deus Ex Go. The studio’s afloat connection reads:

Arena Battle Champions, Deus Ex GO, Hitman Sniper: The Shadows and Space Invaders: Hidden Heroes volition beryllium shutting down connected January 4th.

The games volition beryllium removed from the App Store/Google Play Store connected December 1st, and existent players volition not beryllium capable to entree the games past January 4th.

Effective immediately, in-game purchases are stopped. We promote anterior in-game purchases to beryllium utilized earlier January 4th, arsenic they volition not beryllium refunded.

On behalf of the improvement team, we would similar to convey you for playing our games.

Note that these aren’t simply disappearing from those 2 stores, they are disappearing, with the games nary longer capable to beryllium accessed aft January 4, adjacent if you’ve already downloaded them. From a idiosyncratic perspective—as idiosyncratic who dusts the Go games disconnected arsenic time-killers each twelvemonth oregon two—that sucks, but it’s besides a calamity from a games preservation standpoint.

People made this game, radical bought this crippled and radical enjoyed this game, for years, and with the closure of a workplace and immoderate rights changing hands it’s present conscionable going to cease existing successful an authoritative capacity?

The closures aren’t affecting Lara Croft Go and Hitman Go, astatine least, some of which are besides disposable connected the PC (Deus Ex Go was erstwhile disposable connected the Windows Store, but has since been delisted from determination arsenic well).