Grand Theft Auto IV is missing from Steam, for now, anyway

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Grand Theft Auto IV is missing from Steam, for now, anywayLiberty City is on lockdown

Liberty City is on lockdown

Just in time to launchRed Dead Redemption 2on PC, Rockstar announced their own game launcher for desktop. Despite having bothGrand Theft Auto Vand San Andreas available on the new digital storefront,Grand Theft Auto IVis still notably absent. Now it’s been delisted from Steam as well, though it doesn’t actually seem to be related to any grand plans Rockstar have for their own launcher.

“Grand Theft Auto4 was originally created for the Games For Windows Live platform,” Rockstar say in a statement to US Gamer. Apparently Microsoft dropping support for GFWL has kept GTA’s publisher from generating new keys to sell the game. “We are looking at other options for distributing GTA4 for PC and will share more information as soon as we can,” Rockstar say.

This isn’t the first time GTA 4 has seen distribution woes. Back in 2018, Rockstar pushed an updateremoving a number of songs from GTA 4due to expiring music licenses. At the time, Alice0 even lamented that perhaps it would be a good time to ditch the GFWL integration. They didn’t, naturally, and have apparently waited for the situation to force their hand.

Rockstar haven’t said yet how long they expect GTA 4 to be absent from Steam. Presumably they’ll find a way to make Nico’s adventure available on theRockstar Launcherin the future though that hasn’t been specifically mentioned yet either.

You can get GTA 4 on—well, you can look at itsSteam pageuntil further notice, I suppose.