Without any announcement from Square Enix, the mobile game Kingdom Hearts: Unity X Dark Road has been removed from the store.
The thing about Kingdom Hearts, overall, isn’t that confusing if you actually play the games. Square Enix has made this easier over the years with various ports that include full games, others condensed into cutscenes. But one game has stayed on mobile devices, despite being one of the most important games for the future of the series: Kingdom Hearts: United x Dark Road. There’s a lot of lore surrounding this game, and one of the main characters even appears in Kingdom Hearts III – another, smaller but soon-to-be important character, Strelitzia, also appears in the first and only trailer for Kingdom Hearts IV. So why did Square Enix pull United x Dark Road from the shelves without any announcement?
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Fans noticed last week that the game could no longer be searched and downloaded from the iOS or Google Play stores, and Square Enix didn’t seem to have any comment on the matter a few days later. For a while, the game’s website (which is still online) allowed you to click on a Google Play store banner to download it, and I tested it myself, and the game still works fine – although now all links display a “banned” page, which at least feels very Kingdom Hearts-style, albeit unsettling.
Another Kingdom Hearts mobile game, Missing Link, is coming soon, but despite some playtests over the past few months, there has been no word on when it will be officially released. It’s possible that this removal was made to make way for Missing Link, but United X: Dark Road is essentially a glorified cutscene viewer, and there’s no other legal way to watch these cutscenes right now unless you’ve already downloaded them. Some fans are hoping that the game will get a full remake, but given Square Enix’s recent changes in business strategy, I think that’s unlikely.
Hopefully these cutscenes will be included somewhere in Kingdom Hearts 4 so they can be more easily watched, otherwise Tetsuya Nomura’s inbox will probably be filled with more than a few fans asking him some heavy lore questions that the mobile game has already answered.
