Removed from sale: Peter Molyneux's Godus and Godus Wars, never finished

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Infamous crowdfunded disaster Godus and its spin-off Godus Wars have both been removed from sale on Steam. A statement from studio 22cans says that "an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services" is to blame. Both games had been in Steam Early Access since first launching in 2013 and 2016 respectively, receiving few updates since and mostly or overwhelmingly negative reviews.

"Regrettably, due to an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services, affecting our ability to serve necessary game files to new users, these titles are to be withdrawn from the Steam store. Please be assured that existing players can continue to enjoy these games without interruption," says the brief announcement. "We sincerely appreciate the incredible support from our players over the past decade and extend our heartfelt thanks to you all."

Godus raised £526,563 on Kickstarter in 2012, promising a "delightful reinvention of the god game" from Peter Molyneux. Molyneux is synonomous with the genre thanks to his involvement with earlier games such as Populous and Black & White. When Godus launched in 2013, however, it was startlingly barebones, grindingly slow, and held little in common with earlier Bullfrog and Lionhead classics.

It quickly became clear that 22cans would not be able to deliver on everything promised during the Kickstarter project - including multiplayer, a Linux version, its independence from a publisher, and much more. Many of these elements were known to be impossible from the beginning due to various pieces of middleware 22cans were using. Molyneux talked in interviews about the pressure to overpromise in order to secure funding, telling Tech Radar that "the behaviour is incredibly destructive, which is 'Christ,