Normally once we pose the query of No matter Occurred To a sport, it’s typically answered by some unwell tidings; a sport stops growth mid-early entry, a studio is shuttered, or the sport has mutated into some horrid beast chasing the newest Silicon Valley buzzword. Within the case of Portal Knights, the voxel-y multiplayer open world RPG from developer Eager Video games and writer 505 Video games, it’s much less of a tragic ending and extra of a contented trip into the sundown.
First off, the sport is nonetheless very a lot accessible and even has a legendary version that packs within the base sport and all of its DLC. It’s nonetheless acquired loads of optimistic consumer opinions on Steam, and whereas its participant headcount isn’t wherever close to its all-time peak, there’s nonetheless simply over 500 people taking part in.
It merely appears to be like as if growth has stopped in favor of different tasks: Eager Video games’ web site principally focuses on its early entry survivalbox Enshrouded, Portal Knights hasn’t gotten any new releases previous its 2020 DLC, and there hasn’t been any information about its self-described “non secular successor” that acquired some investor backing to the tune of $10M (in hindsight, we assume Enshrouded is it). Total, that is much less about Portal Knights going the way in which of the dodo and extra just like the pure life cycle of a sport hitting content material completion and the developer transferring to new tasks. However hey, no less than it’s nonetheless round.
