Yeah, the developer of the game had nothing to do with it, and it wasn’t anything to do with the game itself. As you said there’s no explanation for what happened.
In early 2024 , the publisher broke Steam rules. Since we’re not the administrater of the publisher team, we’re unable to know the details of the violation. As a result, their Steam account was permanently banned, and all games they published (including ours) were removed forever.
This violation had nothing to do with our team or Bioprototype , but Steam required all games cooperated with the account to be removed.
Bioprototype will return to Steam for free for 2 months (May 20–July 20). All players can add it to the library.
Cursory internet sleuthing suggests that the publisher, BD Games, engaged in review manipulation at a level egregious enough to move the needle in an environment that’s not exactly known for honest review practices. They’d published a ton of indie games and their removal from steam appears to have caused a kind of localized apocalypse as more than 70 small games were banned.
Deliver at all Costs is a surprise, I just played a demo of it on Steam Nextfest not many months ago. I think the game just came out but now it’s available for free. It was a top-down GTA-type game with destructible environments and a ~1950s vintage setting.
Sifu was previously given away I believe, it’s a neat game where you martial arts fight your way through various levels/missions. When you die you get older. Really neat aesthetic.
Oh, nice. I just heard about DAAC on a Facebook group for over-40 gamers last night and put it on my Steam wishlist. I’ll get the free version instead of waiting for a better sale (ISTR it was 10% off at the time).
I like the Boderlands games overall but no idea about Tiny Tina. She’s a great character in previous games but this seems a cash grab. I dunno though, I have not played it. Yet, as always, hard to argue with free so may as well give it a go.
The Tiny Tina game is based on the popular BL2 DLC Assault at Dragon Keep where the BL2 gang is playing a tabletop RPG ( Bunkers & Badasses). The DLC was popular so they spun off a stand alone game based on the same premise. I’ve no idea if it’s good or not but its origins seem sound (players liked this, so make more)
I’ve played a bit; probably picked it up when it was free earlier. It’s basically a Borderlands version of a Diablo-like and definitely worth picking up for free.
My wife and I bought Tiny Tina for the Xbox when it first came out. We played it couch co-op and solo. We really liked it. The story is good and the voice acting is excellent.
“Dark fantasy dungeon crawler” Hellslave is free until the 16th. This is to call attention to its upcoming sequel so you know it has to be good, or why else make more?
To me, yes it’s worth playing. Especially for free. It has the same quality and humor of Borderlands, though different gameplay. As @Skywatcher said, it plays closer to Diablo.
Slight Bunkers & Badasses sidetrack
On a side note, I played a campaign of Bunkers & Badasses with my gaming group (the actual tabletop game) and had a blast. (No pun intended… or is there?) It very closely resembles the Borderlands games, to the extent even of being able to respawn at save points, being able to do “Fight for your Life”, getting tons of loot from beating enemies, etc.
I just heard about DAAC on a Facebook group for over-40 gamers last night and put it on my Steam wishlist. I’ll get the free version instead of waiting for a better sale (ISTR it was 10% off at the time).