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Andy Chalk

Condemned: Criminal Origins, the best game about beating people to death with a lead pipe I've ever played, has been delisted from Steam and Xbox, and fans are hoping that means a remaster is on the way

Condemned: Criminal Origins cover detail - eyes.

I was a big fan of Condemned: Criminal Origins back in the day. That day was 20 years ago and I can't really remember what it was about, except that I was an FBI burnout of some sort, splitting my time between investigating murders and committing them. Trailers really don't do it justice: Condemned is probably the best 'beat a man to death with a large piece of wood' game I've ever played.

I would recommend that you play it, too, except, well, you can't. At least not as easily as you could yesterday. As noticed today by Wario64, Condemned: Criminal Origins has been removed from Steam and the Xbox store, and unfortunately it's not available on GOG either. It used to be there, on Steam—here's the SteamDB listing—but now, poof. Gone. You can, at least, still get a working code on Fanatical for now.

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