List of 'dead' games: Difference between revisions

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|Requires a constant Internet connection and Twitch account in order to play. No updates since February, 2023. Currently in Early Access with no player base whatsoever.

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|Also known as "No Surrender: Battle of the Bulge" and "1944: Winterschlacht in den Ardennen" in Germany.  

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|Also known as "FIFA World Cup: Germany 2006".

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|Official servers shut down in 2018. The publisher launched new official servers in April 2024, resurrecting the game. Fan-made private servers exist, hosting both the latest and classic versions of the game.

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|Very low player base.

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|Initially released as a browser game in 2011, and released in Steam Early Access on 13 December, 2013. Extremely low player base, all-time peak of 674.

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|A.V.A launched in Korea in 2007, and in NA on 11 November 2009. A.V.A was one of the first five F2P games released on Steam in June 2011. The original game was closed on 29 June 2018, although a modified version of the game was relaunched on 24 August 2022. However, this version appears to have a low player count.  

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|Shut down after 4 years of early access. Free-to-play, but sold microtransactions during its early access run.

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|De-listed from Xbox store, before X360 market was shut down. Multiplayer and online features have been shut down sometime in 2009. DLC Skins and aircrafts unobtainable since then.

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|At risk due to publisher's previous handling of games with online features and games as a service.

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|De-listed from online stores. Multiplayer and online features unavailable.

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|Once the game was bought by Jagex, fans brought the Classic version in multiple flavours such as OpenSpades or Build and Shoot.

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|Game was intended to have its source code released after EoL, but that was eventually considered having "technical, legal and licensing implications" and was shut down with no proper EoL plan. Fans seem to have reverse engineered the game and are able to run self-hosted servers (setup guide on [https://www.reddit.com/r/AceOfSpades/s/tlyDfRRJ7Y Reddit]).

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|Afflicted with various server transfers and closures over its lifetime and known by various other names including "Space Cowboy Online" and "Flysis"

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|Requires a constant Internet connection. Previously an Adobe Flash browser game, is now playable via publisher's in-house game launcher.

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|Initially released in Early Access on 19 October, 2016. Low player base.

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|Previously an Adobe Flash browser game, is now playable via publisher's in-house game launcher. Progress will be transferred to remake when released.

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|PC version currently in Early Access with a very low player base, whilst the mobile release boasts a player base of tens of thousands.

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|Released in Closed Beta in mid - late, 2007 in China. Information on the game is scant.

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|Very low player base.

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|Project Celeste includes fully realised content cut from the original game and new, original content by the fan developers.

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|Active player base.

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|The release date has not yet been announced by the publisher.

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|No player base whatsoever.

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|The original version of Animal Jam which was previously Flash-based. Transitioned out of Flash in 2020.

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|Also known as “Animal Jam - Play Wild!” on mobile. It became the main version of Animal Jam in 2020.

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|Originally planned to shut down on 1 September, 2022, Ubisoft Mainz updated the game to a 64-bit build on 7 September, 2022, maintaining multiplayer support. Very low player base.  

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|BioWare announced all future development of the game had ceased in February, 2021.

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|After Nintendo announcing shutdown, they released a paid online version

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|Updates ceased in 2022, though DLC a update can be installed

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|Later Released under new name Red's Test Flight, but with online leaderboard removed

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|Delisted and replaced with Angry Birds Free on iOS

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Apperently, only yell0wsuit.page works.

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|[https://paltryshelf816.wixsite.com/angry-birds-go-nitro Has fan servers and mods.]  

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On November 15, 2017, all servers for Angry Birds Fight! were shut down, essentially rendering the game completely unplayable. Attempting to start the game would result in a network error message on the title screen (it will always appear regardless of whether or not the WiFi and networks are actually working).

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|Cancelled in soft launch

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|3rd game cancelled in just over the period of 1 year,  

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|On September 10, 2017, it was announced that Angry Birds Dice will shut down the servers on October 10, 2017, due to company restructuring

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|Rovio decided to end support for Angry Birds POP Blast in early 2020, the game was removed from digital distribution and in-app purchases were disabled in March, and online features were disabled in June. The game is still mostly playable however.

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|The game remained playable until February 2021, when the servers were shut down

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|Official 6 December, 2011 relaunch of APB: All Points Bulletin, which shut down in late 2010. XB1 services ended in January, 2024, whilst the PS4 services ended on 2 August, 2024. Relatively low player base.  

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|Currently in Early Access with no player base whatsoever.

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|NA and EU servers shut down on 27 June, 2024.

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|Fan resurrection includes new, original content.

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|Game's source code released in 2003

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|Servers were shut down on July 1st, 2025 due to the closure of Unity's UNet Service. Horde mode can still be played in Single Player, and the remake is not affected.

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|Low player base.

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|Official 1 December, 2022 relaunch of Ascend: Hand of Kul, which shut down on 20 June, 2016. Very little player base.

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|Fan resurrection is open-source.

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|Killed off twice. Originally killed off in December, 2005, officially Resurrected(Fan-resurrected or Dev Preserved)??? in 2013. Fan revival/rebuild project is currently in development

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|Original version of the game is free-to-play, but has MTX. Some cars like the Tesla Model 3 and the Scion FRS are removed due to licensing issues. A fan-preserved version of the game, called  Asphalt 8: Airborne Retry (based on the v1.6.0 update), brings back the removed cars, as well as other improvements.

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|Successor of Asphalt 9: Legends. (like CS2 to CS:GO).

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|Multiplayer mode shutdown officially announced for October 1st, 2022; effective date was January 25th, 2024. Community-made private server development is ongoing ([https://discord.gg/7dpFgtV4uc Discord]).

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|Online services were shut down on December 21st, 2021, rendering the game unplayable.

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|Multiplayer mode shutdown officially announced for October 1st, 2022; effective date was March 26th, 2024. Multiplayer assets and other related files were removed with the final update.

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|Multiplayer mode still available for all platforms except Wii U.

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|Multiplayer mode shutdown officially announced for October 1st, 2022; effective date was March 26th, 2024. Multiplayer assets and other related files were removed with the final update.

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|Co-op multiplayer mode still available for all platforms.

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|Primarily a single-player game without an offline mode.

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|Killed off twice. Originally killed off on 4 October, 2016, officially Resurrected(Fan-resurrected or Dev Preserved)??? on 26 April, 2017. Information on the game is scant.

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|Released on steam on 14 May 2020. Appears to still be getting updates, last post was in May 2025.

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|Early Access game that was left unfinished by the developers since 2023. The official servers were shut down without any notice on August 2024, causing the Xbox version to become unplayable. However, the game is still playable on PC due to unofficial server support. Fans have been also working on fixing the game since the PC version of ATLAS has modding tools and Steam Workshop support.

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|Originally launched in North America by NEXON America and later operated by Redbana Corporation until the official servers shut down on August 30, 2023. European publishers included Burda:ic GmbH (alaplaya) and G10 (UK), whose servers are also closed. The game is now playable through fan-run private servers.

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|Server emulator development abandoned.

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|Online servers were shut down sometime in 2015.

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|Original developer/publisher Ronimo Games went bankrupt, rendering the game completely inoperable, with the latest version of the game not even able to get past the title screen due to its reliance on servers (you couldn't even get into an offline match against bots). Atari acquired the rights to the game, and so far has reverted the game to a MUCH older version that used peer-to-peer matchmaking over servers, but this means a substantial amount of content of the game has been lost. Atari has promised to do the work to add back in this content, but progress on that is quite slow and has yet to be seen.

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|Generally received poor reviews, reached only a single concurrent player as of 7 May, 2022 (https://videogameschronicle.com/news/babylons-fall-dropped-to-just-one-concurrent-player-on-pc/).

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|Active player base.

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|Multiple efforts to resurrect the game, but so far progress has been stalled

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|Game was rebooted in late 2022, though the reboot is completely seperate from the 2013 release, with no compensation for prior purchases. Shutdown date is a rough estimate based on reviews as the game closed with no prior announcement.

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|PC release has a very low player base, whilst the mobile release boasts a player base of around a million.

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|A community mod is available to play the story mode missions; however, certain features like gear and co-op are disabled.

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|https://marne.io/

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|Removed from storefronts on 28 April, 2023.

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|PS2 version is 100% playable trough a fan-preserved project * [https://bf2mc.com BF2MC Online]. Xbox fan-preservation is currently impossible due to Xbox Live hurdles. The Xbox 360 has matchmaking possible, but not the game servers.

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|Active player base.

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|Resurrected by fans through Venice Unleashed (PC). PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions closed on Nov 7th, 2024.

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|PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions closed on Nov 7th, 2024.

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|PS5 version is playable online for all modes, https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/10/battlefield-6-ps5-physical-copies-break-street-date-full-game-on-disc

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|PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions closed on Nov 7th, 2024.

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Additionally, Battlefield Heroes 42 is a fan port of the game's maps into Battlefield 1942.

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|Korean remake of Battlefield 2 in the Refractor 2 engine.

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|A free-to-play title heavily based on Battlefield 2 and Refractor 2 engine. Early version of the original game server binaries leaked. [https://phoenixplay4free.net/ Phoenix Network] aims to revive the game, still in progress.

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|Stopped receiving updates in mid-2020.

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|Removed from storefronts on 28 April, 2023.

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|Removed from storefronts on 28 April, 2023.

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|Due to almost no publicity, it had very little players, despite many players buying the game several times to support the dev team. The game was shut down not even 2 years after its release and the Steam page was straight deleted

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|https://store.steampowered.com/app/504370?snr=5000_5100__

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|As of May 2026, there are three active servers with their own quirks and specific features

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|Source code was released to the public circa the shut down.

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|Information on the game is scant.

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|Online-only MMORPG in early access. [https://archive.ph/Bembd Clockwork Labs' co-founder Tyler F. Cloutier claims they are going to be open sourcing the game's code in the future.]

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|Also known simply as "Bit Heroes".

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|<nowiki>PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions closed on June 26, 2025. Replaced with Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions.</nowiki>

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|Also known as Immortal Soul: Black Survival; currently fan-maintained (with unofficial approval) as Black Survival: Project Lumia

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|PS4 version is still playable, but removed from sale temporarily due to publisher change.

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|Development team ended updates 10 months after release on 28 January, 2021 (https://twitter.com/BleedingEdgeNT/status/1354836826322776066). No player base.

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|Free-to-play game with microtransactions. Western release happened on 2018-05-30. It shut down a year later, but no refunds were given.

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|A remake of Bless Online. It was a free-to-play MMORPG with microtransactions. Shut down due to the [http://archive.today/lIG6g end of the publishing agreement between Bandai Namco and developer Round8 Studio], causing the game to be unplayable. No refunds were given.

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|Another remake of Bless Online, based on Bless Unleashed. It was made and is maintained by another developer and publisher. It also has private servers run by fans.

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|It seems that Wikipedia page is erroneous when it claims that the game was shut down in 2021. Players in the Steam Community page report that they can still play with each other.

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|Delisted digitally from JP PlayStation Store but remains playable after EoS (still require internet connection & online features require PS+ membership)

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|Developers released standalone offline version

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|No player base whatsoever.

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|Cancelled during Early Access during which the player could pre-order the game and purchase DLCs.<ref>https://steamdb.info/app/421650/dlc/</ref>

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|MMO in early access.

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|Playable again via <code>xliveless.dll</code> and some minor file tweaks, but crashes on launch for some people. People Can Fly did not patch GFWL out of the original. Presumably because Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition remaster exists.

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|Offline content is still available.

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|Connectivity and therefore all online modes were shut down for the original title, in favor of the remaster that launched in March of 2018.

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|Offline multiplayer is still available.

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|Cancelled during Paid Early Access with the promise of keeping the servers going "as long as the players will play". Servers went offline sometime in 2016 according to steam community forums for this game.

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|Chinese online-only Call of Duty F2P game

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|No campaign single player. Will be unplayable when servers shut down

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|Requires a constant internet connection for texture streaming, no modes will be playable offline.

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|Always-online DRM for PC

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|Always-online DRM for PC

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|Always-online DRM for PC

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|Always-online DRM for PC

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|Activision sent a cease and desist towards preservation attempts.

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|Officially Resurrected as [https://mojang.github.io/CallersBaneSiteArchive/ Caller's Bane and made open-source.]

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Technically the game can be played offline but since it requires authentication at least once per computer (cached forever) singleplayer is not completely playable since Freejam's servers went down.

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|FusionFall Universe fan resurrections were forced to shut down in April, 2020 because of a DMCA from Cartoon Network. OpenFusion is an open-source, reverse-engineered server.

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|PC release has a low player base. The game future is uncertain as might get bought out

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|Low player base. An Xbox 360 version was in development but was cancelled in March, 2010.

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|Has an "Offline Practice Mode" that cannot actually be played offline.

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|Singleplayer acts as a tutorial for the online component, which has now been shutdown

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|Shut down due to quality issues according to devs.

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|Praised for its unique art style and innovative combat system, the game suffered from financial issues and a lack of marketing, leading to a shutdown less than two years after its European launch. Its servers were shut down region by region.

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|Source code was handed to a player by a former Paragon developer in April, 2019, allowing anyone to run their own private servers. On 4 January, 2024, NCSoft officially granted the Homecoming developers an official license to host the game.

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|The developers claim the game is "resting" and not "retired", hinting at a possible return of the game at some point in the future.

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|Possibly shut down same day as original Cityville

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|Currently supported by the publisher and available for all supported platforms.

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|Fan resurrection currently in Closed Alpha with a single-player demo that has not been updated since 28 November, 2018.

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|Requires Internet for downloading content and playing online  

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|Shut down in favour of its (initially) mobile-exclusive sequel/sucessor, Club Penguin Island (which also ended up shutting down soon after). Multiple private servers are available along with an offline mode.

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|Recently fan-preserved on Itch.io.

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|Dirtnet, a multiplayer component to do online tournaments and race ghosts, has been taken offline due to licensing issues.

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|An offline deathmatch mode can be played with bots. Fan resurrection in a "controlled alpha test" since January, 2022. No updates since January, 2024.

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|[https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/concord-support/ Lifespan of less than 2 weeks.] Refunds offered to all players according to Sony, although there are few reports of physical copies not getting refunded  

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|No player base whatsoever.

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|Dead in some regions, at risk in others

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|No player base whatsoever.

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|The international version of the game was originally shut down in 2019, although it was relaunched on steam as "CosmicBreak Universal" in 2021, with additional features.  

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Counter Strike: Nexon: Studio

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|Counter Strike for the Asian market. Servers in many areas have already shut down

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|https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/02/counterspy_servers_shutting_down_31st_may  

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|Announcement was made 19 December, 2022, with all in-app purchaches being turned off.  

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|Received its final content update on 4 March, 2024.

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|Very low player base. Initially released in Early Access in August, 2014. LAN mode added later

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|The game shutdown on March 31st, 2024, kickstarting the Stop Killing Games campaign. Fan-made server emulator released on September 15, 2025.

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