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/ Adam Richardson

Three More Games Have Quietly Vanished From the Xbox Store

Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, Signs of the Sojourner, and Boom Boom Rocket have all been pulled from the Xbox Store, with no physical editions to fall back on.

Original Source www.purexbox.com ↗

Three more games have disappeared from the Xbox Store in the last few weeks, and as usual nobody got much of a heads up.

The titles are Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier, the 2018 narrative adventure, pulled on June 22 (it went earlier in Ireland, back in May 2025); Signs of the Sojourner, the well-liked 2020 narrative card game, removed this month after what looks like a dispute with the publisher; and Boom Boom Rocket, the Xbox 360 rhythm game, delisted on June 19. They follow Horizon Chase Turbo, Rec Room, and Call of Duty: Warzone for Xbox One, all of which have now left the store as well.

The reasons vary. Planet of the Apes is a licensing expiry, which is the oldest story in delisting and the one with no villain, just a contract running out. Signs of the Sojourner is a publisher dispute, and its developer says it hopes the game comes back but cannot say when. Boom Boom Rocket is the kind of small 360-era title that slips away without a press release.

What ties them together is that none of them had a physical Xbox release, which means that once the digital listing is gone, legitimate access is gone with it. There is no shelf to fall back on, no cartridge in a drawer, no disc to lend a friend. A delisting like this is not a sale ending. It is a game becoming, for practical purposes, unbuyable.

This is the part of digital ownership the storefronts never advertise. You did not buy the game, you bought a license to a listing, and the listing can be revoked by people who are not you. I keep a running eye on these because each one is small and the pile is not. If any of these three were on your wishlist, that window is shut.