Horizon Chase and Horizon Chase Turbo Are Being Delisted in June

Two of the best modern throwbacks to arcade racing are about to disappear from digital storefronts.

Developer AQUIRIS Game Studio has confirmed that both Horizon Chase and Horizon Chase Turbo will no longer be available to download starting June 1.

If you’ve been meaning to grab either game and just… never quite got around to it, this is your heads-up.

The delisting means players will no longer be able to purchase or newly download the two titles once they’re removed, bringing an end to their availability across digital storefronts. At the moment, there doesn’t appear to be any indication that this affects the newer Horizon Chase 2, which will remain available.

So no, the series isn’t disappearing completely but its original two entries are.

That’s a pretty significant loss for a franchise that carved out a very specific niche. Horizon Chase and Horizon Chase Turbo weren’t trying to reinvent racing games. They knew exactly what they were: bright, fast, stylish throwbacks to the kind of arcade racers that used to dominate living rooms and late-night sessions on older consoles. And because they understood that lane so well, they ended up becoming genuinely beloved in the process.

Turbo in particular became one of those quietly excellent games people would recommend whenever someone asked for something “fun” rather than “realistic.” No sim obsession. No overdesigned progression system. Just clean, colorful, immediate racing with a fantastic sense of speed.

Which is probably why this delisting stings more than it normally would.

There’s always a weird finality to this kind of thing. Games don’t just age out anymore they vanish. And even when a sequel is still around, losing the original entries still matters, especially for preservation and for players who might want to go back and see where a series found its identity in the first place.

For now, no reason has been given for the removal, but as usual, licensing, publishing rights, or backend support changes are the usual suspects when older digital games get pulled.

If you want either Horizon Chase or Horizon Chase Turbo in your library, you’ve got until June 1 to make that happen.

After that, the finish line becomes a dead end.