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There is no way to refund a game acquired as part of a bundle. While there may have been people who bought the entire bundle for that one game, the fact remains, they still have over 1700 other games.

There are games that get removed from bundles regularly. (I've bought a LOT of bundles, and sometimes discover when I get back to them to download, that some games are missing.) Oxenfree is just the highest-profile one, one that we know is going somewhere else, rather than "creator made Version 2 and removed Version 1 entirely" or "creator got kicked out for bad behavior so their buyers lost access to all those games."

I really, really wish itch.io would provide info about games that are gone - was it removed by itch.io for a TOS violation, or removed by the creator? Has it just been renamed and the purchase is still valid; you just have to find it under the new game or creator name? (Or both. Sometimes both have changed.) And I wish they'd send out notices for games being removed, with a chance to download them - "Creator has removed SuperEliteGame from the itch.io store; you have 48 hours to download it before it's gone forever."

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> There is no way to refund a game acquired as part of a bundle.

Sure there is.  Each person who purchased the bundle gets refunded the full price of the removed game at the time of purchase or the full price of the bundle, whichever is less.  Itch.io does not remove the game until the developer has paid for the refunds.  If the developer can't afford the refunds, the game stays up.

That should cover all cases except where the game contains actual illegal material.

This makes me think that they won't remove the game page but just the files or put a blank zip file, technically you will still have the game. itch needs a basic versioning system at least to prevent stuff like this.