desura

The owner and operator of the digital distribution service Desura appears to have gone into bankruptcy. Following a thread on NeoGAF where a user had spotted a tweet from an employee of the game bundle website Indie Royale that indicated that Bad Juju, who only bought Desura several months ago, had gone bankrupt. This could mean that the platform could soon go offline. Desura began life as a digital distribution service that offered games from all sorts of developers without any form of DRM. It was mainly used by independent developers who were unable to get their game onto other platforms such as GOG or Steam, especially in the time before Steam Greenlight. While the store has always been very small compared to other larger services it still has a library of more than 2 million games as well as a large collection of older games that are not available to buy anywhere else. In 2014, Desura was purchased by Bad Juju from Linden Lab but faced growing complaints from