Q: Is anyone able to find back their android version on google play?

[Spacehamster]

I bought Eufloria (HD?) on google playsome years ago, and now it seems to be gone from both the store and my library.

This happened to me with another game (Spacechem) as well. The dev had his developer page removed on google play store and this causes people to lose their purchase. afaik removing a game from store doesn't cause people losing their game, but if a dev decides to disappear from GPlay completely people will lose their game.

If developers are reading this: Have you removed your developer's page from google play store in the last +/- 4 years?

Google play won't inform the customers when they lose their game, so they'll find out when some day like to play it again. This is my 2nd game that is wiped, maybe I lost even more but I don't know yet.

[RestlessBear]

I just happened to check, and same for me as well.

[Spacehamster]

I lost at least 3 games so far, still have the receipts. Losing games is bad enough, but not knowing about titles disappearing at all is even worse. There is zero communication.

3 years ago I had a plan to rebuy most of my music collection on Google Play. Spent a fortune on rebuying the majority of it. Guess what, Google recently decided to promote their Youtube business instead of GPlay music, by adding monthly subscription and getting rid of the full GPlay Music section.

So, now I am the 'proud' owner of lousy MP3 versions of music l paid for. Plus I already bought them on CD in 90's/early 20. Hundreds of dollars wasted, thanks google!

Google is f k n ruthless and they get away with everything. Be very carefull with what you buy.

[Autian]

So at the Discord Server "Claymatic and Friends" (https://discord.gg/claymatic) Sillytuna wrote the following:
Sillytuna 02.08.2019 in "announcements":

Originally posted by Sillytuna:

Eufloria HD: No longer available on the Google Play store for reasons beyond our control. DM @Sillytuna if you're a Play Store user and are having any issues. Sadly we can't guarantee this will work any more and the company who did the port no longer exist.

Sillytuna 16.04.2020 in "eufloria-rpg":

Originally posted by Sillytuna:

Google Play is moving to 64 bit and also reqiured an updated library within a lot of apps. The company who did the Android version is no longer in business so we couldn't do an update

[Spacehamster]

Thanks for the reply Autian.
But what Google does is removing them from buyers purchase history as well, it's not the developer to blame.
Google removes all traces of the purchase, pretending a game is never bought, pretending the game never existed at all. All I have left is an order receipt in my mailbox.

I'm very surprised that there is so little info found about this on the internet. Do people simply don't care they lose their games and even purchase proof, or is Google so powerful that they have ways to have the posts removed.

All I know that if Steam would do this then hell would break loose amongst customers and the news would spread everywhere.

I found this post below, it's shocking how much games Google removes without even noticing their customers. I understand online games expire in time, but single player? And at least Google should take their hands off my purchase history.

www 'dot' reddit 'dot' com/r/AndroidGaming/comments/cn4oa5/list_of_games_removed_from_playstore/

[Autian]

Originally posted by Spacehamster:

Thanks for the reply Autian.
But what Google does is removing them from buyers purchase history as well, it's not the developer to blame.

I did not intend to blame the devs.

Also from day one I sort of felt that stuff bought online will disappear somehow, it would be just a matter of when. But I did not expect to have this happen this early. I've rooted my phones pretty early so I was able to keep backups of APKs and resource packs from most Apps I've used before. It's still very infuriating though.

[ayonymus]

Well, same story. I bought this many years ago, and wanted to have another go on android, and couldn't find on the Play Store. Then I remembered that I bought this from amazon's android app store in a promotion. Checked it, and it's still available and downloadable to this day. Maybe check there...

[Limimi]

Another place to check is HumbleBundle - it was a part of a couple of their early android bundles, and the apk is still available to download if you check your library. It doesn't run great on Android 12 though - well it runs fine, but if you turn off the screen or switch apps it freezes.

[Nexus_General]

The game is also not in the playstation store anymore either. Such a shame

[misterpaulgray]

I recently got the game back onto my phone: I emailed the creators via their website and was invited into their Discord group which contained a link to download the apk.
Feel free to try the same.