Today the stone age farming and life simulation game Roots of Pacha has been removed from Steam.
The developers at Soda Den have issued a statement on social media explaining that unfortunately, this isn’t a mistake (as it happened recently with Ready or Not). Unfortunately, the game appears to have been intentionally taken down following a dispute with publisher Crytivo.
Soda Den alleges that the publisher refused to work with them to resolve the dispute internally and instead just went to Valve to get the game removed. You can read the full statement below.
As you may have noticed, the Roots of Pacha Steam page is temporarily offline.
We are sad to report that we have been engaged in a dispute with Crytivo over the rights to Roots of Pacha. We worked hard to amicably resolve our issue with Crytivo internally. Instead of working with us to address the issue, Crytivo went to Valve and authorized them to remove Roots of Pacha from Steam without our knowledge or consent.
While we work out our issues with Crytivo, we’ll continue developing Roots of Pacha with the same energy we’ve always put into it. We couldn’t be any more thankful for the overall reception of the game. We’re currently working on a roadmap and are excited to say it’ll be ready for you next month!
We’re cautiously optimistic that Roots of Pacha will return to Steam very soon.
– Soda Den Team
At the moment, Crytivo has not issued a statement in response. We reached out to ask if they have anything to comment on the issue, and will follow up if we receive anything of note.
Roots of Pacha is a cute 2D pixel art life & farming simulator set in the Stone Age. It was financed via Kickstarter with $355,388 – ten times the original $35,000 goal – by 7,015 backers. The game is scheduled to be released on consoles later this year. At the moment, we do not know whether this issue will affect the console release or not.
