platinum games Apple Arcade Exclusive Games Demon world Its service has ended and it was completely removed from the market on January 18th.
Earlier this week, PlatinumGames shared a brief blog post announcing that Demon World would soon no longer be playable. “World of Demons will no longer be available for download on Apple Arcade starting January 18, 2024,” the post reads, before noting that starting February 1, even if you download the game, you won’t be able to Then download “World of Demons” on Apple Arcade. It’s totally possible to play with it. PlatinumGames also wrote that it “would like to express its gratitude to all players who have enjoyed the game since launch.”
Those are indeed all the details provided in the blog post, but it doesn’t explain why the game was removed from Apple Arcade. Typically, Apple Arcade exclusives include Apple partially funding the games available on the service, which is why World of Evil isn’t available on any other platform. It’s possible that Apple is only paying for exclusivity for a period of time, but other than that, who knows why it was removed.
World of Demons launched less than a few years ago in April 2021, and as is typical with most PlatinumGames games, it’s an action game with a very similar visual style to Okami – a game created by An action-adventure game co-developed by PlatinumGames. Founder Hideki Kamiya.
This is obviously not great from a preservation perspective, as there simply isn’t any other way to play the game. Hopefully PlatinumGames will decide to release the game elsewhere, although I don’t have much confidence given the general games industry’s incompetence when it comes to preservation.
The future of PlatinumGames is currently somewhat uncertain, as Kamiya left the studio he helped found back in October. This leaves Project GG (directed by Kamiya) as the only project in development that the developer is aware of, and it’s uncertain whether it will still be in development after his departure.
