I’m sorry to report this afternoon that Phoenix Labs’ Dauntless is closing down.
The sundown information got here within the type of a quick tweet this afternoon. “Dauntless is shutting down on Might 29, 2025. Dauntless will obtain no extra content material or updates,” the message reads. “Dauntless will not be out there to play on and after Might 29, 2025 at 11:45PM PST.” An an identical message was posted to Steam. There’s nothing in any respect on the official website and no different data from the dev crew.
And that’s in all probability as a result of there is no such thing as a dev crew, not anymore. As readers will hopefully recall, only a few weeks in the past, Phoenix Labs laid off the overwhelming majority of the Dauntless and Fae Farm groups “as a part of unlucky however vital adjustments to [its] operations” with the promise that it might “share extra particulars within the coming weeks about what this implies” for the 2 remaining video games. As we famous on the time, sport cancelations and layoffs had already been ongoing at Phoenix Labs since 2023 following a supposed investor buyout that turned out to have been an acquisition of PL by a dodgy blockchain firm, Forte Labs.
Dauntless particularly had survived preliminary cuts however struggled after the Awakening revamp went south; even our personal Dauntless knowledgeable stated the sport “barely registers as a husk of its former self, drained by what can solely be assumed is a determined ultimate cash-out try earlier than the entire home of playing cards lastly tumbles over.” That whispery sound you hear is the playing cards hitting the bottom now.
The Fae Farm Twitter account and Steam web page don’t point out something about impacts on the sport, but it surely was a standalone co-op title. We assume it is going to additionally get no additional growth.
Our sympathies to the builders, once more, and to the loyal gamers who didn’t deserve any of this dumpster fireplace.
