Warner Bros. Games has finally been able to act sensibly when it has been trying to do the opposite… perhaps a big part of the reason was that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is a far cry from what parent company Warner Bros. wants?

Previously, Warner wanted Adult Swim Games’ entire catalog of indie titles to disappear into the shadows so they wouldn’t have to deal with developer royalties. This would have been a bad move for game preservation. Fortunately, that’s not going to happen, as the games in question will remain on Steam, and the developers have all reported that they have all the control they need from Warner.

Landon Podbielski, creator of The Duck Game, tweeted that his game was safe and that he would provide more details later, but he did receive an email from Warner stating that the rights to the game and the store pages were all going back to Corptron and thanking everyone for their interest. Podbielski hopes that others have received a similar message from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). This is likely the case, as Game Developer has reported that Owen Deery, developer of Small Radios Big Televisions, has regained control of the store and rights from Warner.

duck game is safe!! more details soon but the email from warner finally came. the game is being returned to corptron along with it's store pages on all platforms, it's not going anywhere. thank you everyone… hoping everyone else got the same email.

— Landon ٩( ᐛ )و (@superjoebob) May 10, 2024

Update: Game will not be 'retired'. Ownership and store listings will return to me. https://t.co/LU8wSNe5ZL

— Owen Deery (@owendeery) May 9, 2024

Although sixty days have passed, the Adult Swim Games catalog is still available in its entirety (the games would have been removed after that time), as are Soundodger+ and Kingsway, for example. The initiative was halted around 2020-21, when Warner began to move towards free-to-play and live service games. Initially, WBD turned down requests to transfer rights because they didn’t have the resources. (In other words, they didn’t care!)

At least this story ended well, because everyone got the rights back from WBD, and everyone can continue to sell their passion projects (because they are not AAA titles…) without any publisher interference.

Source: PCGamer, Game Developer