Spellbreak Battle Royale game shuts down

The success of PUBG, Battlegrounds and Fortnite: Battle Royale games are among the biggest reasons for modern battle royale games to point their way in this direction. The success of these two games formed the basis of the games and competition to be released in the following years. A free-to-play battle royale game that tries to add a fantasy setting to this popular subgenre. Spellbreak There is sad news about him.

Developer studio Proletariat pulls the plug on Spellbreak

Unfortunately, positive developments among this competition may not be sufficient alone to achieve financial success. As a result, developer studio Proletariat has announced its plans to end development of the game and shut down Spellbreak’s servers early next year.

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In a blog post earlier in the day, studio Proletariat informed the players about their decision in the blog post. The developer’s statement was brief and quick, announcing the decision to close and thanking the players for their support. Proletariat did not give a specific date for shutting down their Spellbreak servers. But he said it will be in early 2023. Later, the blog post expressed his thanks to the fans of the game and informed about the vision of the game. The blog post didn’t make it clear why it shut down the game, but the low player count of the game may have been the most important factor.

So much so that, according to SteamDB data, Spellbreak currently has 88 active players at the time of this writing. That’s less than the number of players required for a matchup, even in the most popular battle royale games. It peaked at 5,500 players two years ago and has slowly declined since then. Spellbreak’s massive increase in Twitch viewership has also never caused it to increase its player count. While all these reasons may seem sad and unfortunate for the Spellbreak cast and fans, this ending seems inevitable.