As the title said, ALL TELLTALE GAMES WILL BE REMOVED FROM GOG ON MONDAY, MAY 27, 10AM UTC
Read the official statement here.
More.

Tales from the Borderlands has already been removed from steam, but 2K is trying to get it back.

Even more.

If you really want Telltale Games, and have previously purchased from GMG, check there. You might be eligible for the 15% VIP discount.

PS: A Telltale Train, courtesy of the wonderful and generous ThoughtfulHippo!


PPS: 10 hours left--$7.49 at https://www.wingamestore.com/product/3869/Tales-from-the-Borderlands/

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Would be Totb.

Loved to have the missing ones at one point, guess it's out of luck. Doubt they ever come back, oh well.

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I always thought it was "tales of the borderlands" until I saw this

5 years ago
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Well okay but your op still says. :p

Tales of the Borderlands has already been removed from steam, but 2K is trying to get it back.

5 years ago
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Whups! Thank you! I appreciate your catching that! (Fixed now, I hope.)

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I would have liked to have the Wallace and Grommit ones. Other than that, missing Guardians, Batman 2, and the minecraft ones

5 years ago
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Well i went for them as i just don't see them ever coming back, on ebay, kinguin/g2a they all had their own things being cheapest.

Thought i had Wallace and Grommit on steam (and not missing) but guess it was GOG only.

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I just looked up the final season of TWD on g2a.....

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I just found Wallace & Grommit for 15 pounds. can't justify that price

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where?

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Doesn't say steam though, with those telltale games, you must be weary you aren't getting a telltale key from their own site.

5 years ago
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Tales of the Borderlands was the best of all the telltale games......i wanted a 2nd

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Same. The sequel was the only Telltale game I was really looking forward too.

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If you are looking to buy anyone's you really want, you probably want to do that soon.

All of The Walking Dead Telltale games are sold for $5 a piece on the Epic Games Store right now. Those are now listed under Skybound.

TELLTALE GAMES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE STILL

GAMES THAT WILL BE RETURNING FOR PURCHASE

STORE PAGE BUT NOT AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

STORE PAGE HAS BEEN REMOVED

GAMES THAT WERE CANCELED THAT WERE HEADING TO STEAM

  • The Wolf Among Us: Season Two
  • Game of Thrones: Season Two
  • Stranger Things (untitled)
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Im so bummed out I missed that cool telltale humble bundle, especially the dollar tier was super crazy.
Hopefully all this nonsense will lead to a repeat bundle by them. :D

5 years ago
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The Batman games and Guardian of the Galaxy will probably be able to kept on Steam if WB and Disney keep them there.

Only if they buy them out from what's left of Telltale or make some other deal. They may ultimately hold the licenses but not the assets for the game or the rights to the engine.

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Right there's some work that will have to go into but it's the respected owners licenses so it should be fairly easy to do. I'm not sure about WB but I have a feeling Disney might be trying to make it happen.

5 years ago
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yes, disney is all about their assets so i'm sure they will get a hold of their part if not more.

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PHEW

Just checked and The Wolf Among Us is still in the store too.

5 years ago
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Yes it is. Sorry bout that. I saw it but forgot to list it. It's up there now, didn't mean to scare ya :)

5 years ago
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Thank you for the list!

I think I might get Batman 2 from GMG, but Tales From The borderlands is too expensive. Hopefully 2K can get it back up (and cheaper), as I hear it is one of the best TT games, and requires no knowledge of the "official" franchise to play & enjoy.

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It's on Steam but isn't available for purchase atm.

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IMO, it's one of the best, together with Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us. Those three are in a class of their own.

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Yep. I've never played the original Borderlands games, but I loved TftB. It was a ton of fun.

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Bone Out From Boneville is no longer available for purchase.

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Updated

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😂

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5 years ago
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Your message reminded me to activate the old Wolf Steam key I had, so thanks for that!
A bummer what happened to Telltale, especially that they didn't work out orderly transfer of the IPs.

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Kinda wish they could do a gog.com/connect thing this weekend for this. Alas.

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Final nail to the coffin eyy. R.I.P
Spoiler Gif:

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You should've probably mark the gif as a spoiler for The Walking Dead (Season 1). I know it is a 7 year old game, but it is still worth playing and it is best going in blind.

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You know why I did not mark it as spoiler?
Because, I hasn't watched or played the game before, so I did not know its a spoiler. Only googled a "The walking dead game dead gif" and this is one of the results XD Pardon me for the unintentional spoiler tho

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No worries, I know you didn't mean any harm.

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I also wouldn't have known it was a spoiler if you hadn't pointed it out :P

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I was hoping to get "Minecraft Story Mode: Season Two", and nearly bought it from GamesRocket until I saw "Activation key must be used on the publisher's website" which of course no longer exists.

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did their site close? I had michonne there... I downloaded it months ago, but still...

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If you've already downloaded or got a Steam key you probably fine, since Steam will honour that. But some sites sell TellTale keys that need to be redeemed on their own site, and the link given goes nowhere. As nhahtdh points out, the corporate site still exists.

But you are aware they went bankrupt?

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I'm aware they are busted, but also that their TWD IP has been sold, so the download sites might be still working, or migrated to a new domain.

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It's still there: https://telltale.com/

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I followed the redeem link. Didn't give me that warm fuzzy feeling.

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I own all of these either on Steam or XBox, so at least I'm grandfathered in. Sad to see them implode like this...I like being able to play a game once in a while that is as much about storytelling with some general interactivity as much as anything else. I don't always want to go full hardcore mode.

There's a time when you want to play HL/Assassin's Creed/GoW/DOOM and there's a time when you just want a casual story, and Telltale games did that pretty well.

The exception to that mode is Sam & Max, which are all legit adventure point-and-clicks, with some tricky-ass puzzles in there.

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If you don't care about having AAA graphics or voice acting, there are lots of other great story-focused games that don't demand much of the player! Night in the Woods, for instance, or Oxenfree, or VA-11 Hall-A.

5 years ago
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My hope is that the final season of The Walking Dead will be released on Steam again someday. I have all the previous ones.

5 years ago
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Same here, the only one of their game that I'm missing :(

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I'm not so sure. Epic have basically bankrolled development.

The press release makes it sound like Epic Games is financially involved in the production of the remaining episodes, which would explain the sudden exclusivity shift mid-season.

5 years ago
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Should have gone sale before they went out. I forgot to get TftB for my Borderlands collection :(

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omg, i want buy tales from borderland in summer steam sale..

5 years ago
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Still sad that Telltale died ;-;. There is still no one else on the market that makes game like them, and now I will have to just make do with what I have left to play :/.

5 years ago
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Yeah... I loved their games. I'm honestly a little surprised no one else has put out anything similar

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Probably because TT as successful as they are in the genre, they fail to survive. The industry always copies the successful formula instead of the one that failed. During the time they are still afloat probably had also noticed that the subsequent titles was not as popular. Many also turn to Visual Novels. Hiring Artists to draw Anime/Hentai/Generally good pictures but not good stories(debatable, not a big VN fan) seems to yield more returns. :)

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Telltale failed to survive due to bad business decisions. They were putting out too many games, paying too much for licensed IP. They expected every game to be a blockbuster like TWD, though most games only sold a fraction thereof. They also ramped up production, saturating the market. Even fans of Telltale just weren't buying as many games as they were putting out.

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I agree, they even develop their own engine only for the latter management to void it to jump on Unity instead. It still leaves a bad taste how they dismissed the staffs with lies at the end. I hope they all had found new jobs and those who had harder living conditions managed to get better. Cheers~

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no one else has put out anything similar

https://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/Life_is_Strange/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/554620/Life_is_Strange_Before_the_Storm/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/532210/Life_is_Strange_2/

It's only a single publisher so far, but Telltale isn't the only contributor to the Cinematic Adventure Game genre.

While I haven't played it myself, I've heard Firewatch [a walking simulator] compared to Telltale games as well, and given that Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman (the two creative leads for the first The Walking Dead game [but who, I believe, were not involved in later Telltale games] ) were involved, that's not entirely out of place. So for a broader interpretation of "similar", that may be a consideration as well.

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+1 :(

5 years ago
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Why can't they do a deep discount for the ones that are still available? I want the Batman ones.

5 years ago
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Telltale games weren't on sale since the closure announcement in September. Most probably there is noone left with rights to put games on sale. Not wanting to sound rude, but compared to other removals there has been much time to get these, if you really want them (without discount though).

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I'll make sure to spend money I don't have then.

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Ah, come on. I didn't state that. Also I asked you to not take it rude, but you now acted intentionally as if you got me wrong.

You might not have read the announcement in September directly. But it was posted here on SG and since Telltale became one of the bigger indie dev studios, the story was in all game-related media, so you surely learned about it within a week. Due to the closure it was obvious that these games get purchase disabled / removed soon. For most of the games which get removed from Steam there neither isn't an announcement by the dev nor news depicting their situation. So after removal you have to get it very fast from resellers (if it's not taken from their stores at the same time), keysellers or traders who want to earn a fortune with already removed games. Your wishlisted Walking Dead: The Final Season was removed fast due to the takeover by Skybound. If you've checked its price development, you might get the idea how difficult/expensive it is to get removed games at all. However, you can get it now at Epic Game Store.

As Dohi64 pointed out correctly, the Telltale games got a base price drop after the announcement. The two Telltales' Batman games are on your wishlist, but I'm not sure if Steam notifies about base price drops as it does with discounts. But you probably know IsThereAnyDeal.
Getting one game is better than nothing, so the question is: after all your expenses you didn't have 15 € (or the equivalent price of it in your country) left in the last nine months? You couldn't have wished to get one of the games as gift from family or friends for Christmas or something else you celebrate? Then I'm honestly very sorry for you, since you probably belong to the poorest part of this community.
Trading might have been the way to go for you. But at least your SteamTrades profile seems a bit empty to me. I hope you entered at least all SG giveaways you could.

In the other case it's just about your own priorities about spending your money. And that's totally okay. But then you obviously didn't want them as bad as other things you bought during this time, though you knew that these games won't be available forever.

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I didn't buy anything recently. Everything I got recently was free. Also I meant a deep discount to at least $5. Also Epic Store is trash and the game will never be on Steam now at all which is fucked up.

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Which game do you mean now? Only the Walking Dead games went there until now, because Skybound acquired them and Epic paid them some gazillions.. And I hope that Telltale will still earn some bucks for those remaining games at Steam, because it would increase the chance that the devs get their missing wages.

My suggestion: if you really want those two Batman games, I could buy Steam keys for both at Wingamestore and you contact me whenever you have the money for it (oh, and at listed price, nothing surplus).

5 years ago
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The final Walking Dead game. Also no that's okay. I will eventually get them somehow. I find it interesting that Xbox One has the Minecraft bundle including the Telltale game still available.

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Well, that would even better then. According to ITAD, Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us e.g. weren't on sale at Steam since the summer sale. But you're right regarding the base price drop.

5 years ago
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welp, this suxx

5 years ago
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have a feeling someone out there is using whatever money left to buy as many studios as possible to avoid being creticised over exclusives :3

5 years ago
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I have a few unused duplicate Puzzle agent steam keys somewhere are they likely to stay valid or will they also become toast

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I don't know. You might want to use or give the keys very soon.

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Thanks for the GMG VIP discount code alert. I have a 16% discount for Batman The Enemy WIthin... better than nothing! :)

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Reading the comments I thought I'd check and I have all of the Humble Telltale Bundle Tier 1, but am not interested in any of these.

So have a little Telltale train - you are welcome to add to the OP.

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Thank you very much for your generosity! It is greatly appreciated. added. 😎

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Well, as you pointed out, those keys may well stop working in the future, so it just seemed like the right thing to do.

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Nobody is talking about the Wallace & Gromit games anymore, but I thought they were great. They haven't been for sale since 2014, since Telltale and Aardman couldn't agree on a continuation deal apparently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit%27s_Grand_Adventures

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Yeah, they were really good.
It's a shame that not many people even know they existed.

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those are the only TT games I really want and don't have.
that, and the last two chapters of TWD

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Telltale's story is really sad. I love most of their games. There is a documentary from noclip if you want to watch Telltale's end.

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I was gonna link the same video, thanks.

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tbh getting rid of the walking dead series is a crime. Lee and Clem's stories were so good

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I think Skybound has the rights to the Walking Dead stuff now? It's possible they could return to Steam at some point.

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maybe, i'm not sure. I don't really know how any of this kind of stuff works.

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the quick answer is "it depends"

Someone owns the rights to the overall world and setting. That someone may license another person (or company) to create and sell further stories in that universe. Now's where it gets tricky, because, well, you've got the rights to the setting, the rights to the story, and the rights to the underlying technology.
Who has access to what rights really depends on the agreement - a good agreement can include eventualities for example, King Syndicate, when it licensed the Popeye IP to Fleisher Animation Studios, included a provision that the cartoons would need to be destroyed after 10 years - if no other agreement could be reached whereas a bad agreement (which is not uncommon) would have the rights lost in limbo see for example No One Lives Forever, where the rights sort of belong to three major companies, but none of them know to what extent their rights go

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