{"id":1386552,"date":"2025-11-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/q8cM3LHvW4ogJScEJtkbi4"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:00:00","slug":"battlestar-galactica-deadlock-one-of-the-pcs-best-spaceship-strategy-games-will-no-longer-be-available-for-purchase-on-any-platform-as-of-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/battlestar-galactica-deadlock-one-of-the-pcs-best-spaceship-strategy-games-will-no-longer-be-available-for-purchase-on-any-platform-as-of-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, one of the PC’s best spaceship strategy games, ‘will no longer be available for purchase on any platform’ as of next week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock<\/a>, Black Lab Games’ well-regarded interstellar tactics game, will be delisted from Steam and all other platforms as of November 15.<\/p>\n

Publisher Slitherine announced Deadlock’s removal from purchase on its website<\/a>, stating the game and all its expansions are to be “phased out” from sale and “will no longer be available for purchase on any platform” as of Friday next week. “This marks the end of an era for our space fleet, and we want to give everyone a proper heads-up to grab the game while it’s still available,” Slitherine added.<\/p>\n

The publisher didn’t provide any reason for Deadlock’s delisting. The most plausible explanation is an expired licensing agreement, though it is worth noting that Deadlock partly shares its name with Valve’s upcoming multiplayer shooter<\/a>. Not that I’m suggesting any kind of weird conspiracy on Valve’s part to kill off a relatively obscure space strategy game from 2017. But it is an interesting coincidence.<\/p>\n

In any case, Slitherine points out that players who already own the game (or purchase it in the next week) “can continue playing it without any restrictions.” Deadlock is well worth picking up<\/a> if you’re into either tactical strategy games or big spaceships blowing each other up. Set during the First Cylon War, Deadlock’s key hook is that combat encounters are resolved simultaneously, with the player attempting to predict enemy movements by queuing up orders and seeing how they play out.<\/p>\n

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