![]() Featuring a highly unique physics-based deformable terrain and water interaction technology. The ultimate off-road challenge, climb aboard incredibly detailed soviet inspired vehicles and venture across the rough and tough terrain motherland Russia has to offer. The award-winning, million-seller indie hit, Spintires®: The Original Game. As of this writing, two months after the delisting and with no official word from Oovee, it is questionable if Spintires will return to Steam once again. This post by user Unster is particularly succinct and includes links to the USPTO filings released to the public so far. Unfortunately, many of the details of these proceedings are confidential but users on the Oovee forums have compiled much of the factual information available. It would appear that their latest efforts have removed the original Spintires from Steam, either due to a new court ruling or a similar DMCA takedown claim filed with Valve. ![]() Thanks to a ruling in 2018, Saber dropped the name from its MudRunner titles but has continued to fight over the property. In 2017 Saber Interactive launched the spin-off title, MudRunner, and initially included ‘Spintires’ in the name. Oovee and Saber Interactive have long been embroiled in legal disputes over ownership of the Spintires property and usage of its name. ![]() ![]() The matter was settled at the time and the game returned to sale on August 15th, 2019 before being delisted again on January 4th, 2021. Spintires was delisted and unavailable on Steam between August 1st and August 15th, 2019 after an “unverified individual from Russia” filed a DMCA takedown with Valve (original post deleted, reposted on Reddit). ![]()
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