Roll7’s acclaimed skating games OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome have made a return to Steam.
OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome disappeared from Valve’s platform back in February of this year. Their removal followed Take Two’s decision to close developer Roll7 as well as the games’ publishing label Private Division last November.
“As part of this transaction, the buyer purchased our rights to substantially all of Private Division’s live and unreleased titles,” Take Two said at the time.
When Roll7’s games then vanished from Steam, 2K told Eurogamer it had taken on the role of OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome’s publisher, assuring us that both games would eventually return to the platform at an unspecified date.
And, return they now have. Here’s OlliOlli World’s Steam page, and here’s Rollerdrome’s Steam page, if you fancy checking them out for yourself.
Eurogamer has reached out to 2K again regarding Olli Olli World and Rollerdrome’s Steam return, to see if we can find out more about what went on behind the scenes. We will keep you posted if we hear more.
As for the games themselves, well if you haven’t played them yet I would highly recommend them both. Don’t just take my word for it, though. Christian Donlan called OlliOlli World a “thrilling leap forward for a magical skating series” in Eurogamer’s review.
We were similarly smitten with Rollerdrome. “Roll7 blends genres with total mastery in Rollerdrome, one of the most breathlessly stylish and casually, outrageously cool games you’ll ever play,” wrote our Chris in Eurogamer’s Rollerdrome review.