Summary
Kingdom HeartsUnchained X and Dark Road have both been suddenly delisted from App Stores, meaning the best way to experience their story is now through YouTube videos.
The Kingdom Hearts series has always had a bit of a reputation for its “spin-off"games like Re:Coded, Chain of Memories, and Birth by Sleep being essential parts of the mainline series' plot. While I think that’s overblown and that there aren’t really any “spin-off” games anyway, that point is dampened a bit by the mobile games.
Both Unchained X (previously known as Union X) and Dark Road contain a ton of important plot elementsthat you previously had to trudge through a bunch of gacha nonsense to reach. Mercifully, that was later changed asboth games were bundled together and turned into one big cutscene compilation, finally giving fans a way to play without getting sucked into rolls. Looks like that isn’t the case anymore.
Kingdom Hearts Mobile Games Have Been Delisted
As pointed out by Twitter user KHDatabase, Kingdom Hearts Unchained X/Dark Road has been removed from app stores on Apple and Samsung devices.The website for the bundle is still online and has all of the links in place, but all of them appear to be broken right now. I’ve tried to search for Unchained X/Dark Road on my iPhone, but can’t find it anywhere.
If you’ve downloaded Unchained X/ Dark Road in the past, then you can still download it from the Android Store. Better get that done fast before it’s wiped from the ether.
Square Enix hasn’t officially announced that the apps are being delisted, so it comes as a bit of a shock. Considering how important Unchained X is to the rest of the series (with Strelitzia confirmed for Kingdom Hearts 4) it’s a little wild to thinkher story can now only be experienced in 11-hour YouTube videosor through fan dubs.
If you’re a glass-half-full kind of Kingdom Hearts fan (which I imagine most of you are), then you could look on the bright side andhope that this means MIssing Link is nearly with us. It’s possible that the cutscenes from both games will be included in ML as some sort of recap or compilation, so we’ll just have to wait to find out more about it.
