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PayPalWho cares about preserving the works of all the people that work on video games right? LEGO 2K Drive is another that's about to vanish forever.
Released back in 2023, it's only a few days off its third birthday. Three years, that's apparently a reasonable time for a game to entirely cut off any online function support. They aren't even giving a reason on why this is happening, but presumably it's another licensing issue since this is a LEGO game. We've seen many games delisted over the years when limited licenses expire.
The Steam page for the game was recently silently updated to note:
This product will no longer be available for purchase as of 05/19/2026.
NOTE: All multiplayer servers for LEGO® 2K Drive will be shutdown as of 05/31/2027. After that time, all game functions requiring online servers will no longer function.
Another reason could be plain and simply profitability. The game never really hit it big with less than 1,800 user reviews in total on Steam. And it only hit an all-time peak concurrent player count of 1,039. Probably didn't help that they tried some sort of live-service silliness with it and added micro-transactions. It had a pretty mixed rating overall.
At least in this case, it might still be playable offline but it still stings to see more games just shuttered like this. Yet another case for the California Protect Our Games Act and Stop Killing Games.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I LOVED this game on my steam deck. It was SO much fun to just randomly drive around transforming between vehicle modes and cause chaos and do random races. I have zero clue what the story was nor do I care.
To make this game gone forever for any future steam deck players is criminal ... I hate everything about that.
Quoting: JarmerI don't even understand this. Okay ... so the game didn't sell well so, sure, take the online servers offline, that makes sense I guess. But delist it? Make it disappear forever? WTF?I've seen other games listed on Steam that have big warnings that the servers were shut down, but single player campaigns are still available. A prominent notice like that, along with a healthy price cut, seems like the best option. Unless the game was badly designed to always require a server connection... or if there is a licensing issue, as Liam suggested may be the case.
I LOVED this game on my steam deck. It was SO much fun to just randomly drive around transforming between vehicle modes and cause chaos and do random races. I have zero clue what the story was nor do I care.
To make this game gone forever for any future steam deck players is criminal ... I hate everything about that.
Last edited by Phlebiac on 16 May 2026 at 5:19 am UTC
This is a fun game to run on my Steam Deck and a real shame it's being pulled. I reckon they should make all its DLC free (or very cheap) now as compensation because we're not going to be able to buy any of that in a few days' time (outside of third party key stores who will either run out of keys or hike the DLC prices anyway).
Last edited by rkl on 16 May 2026 at 10:10 am UTC
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