It looks as if increasingly live-service video games are dying or being placed on life help inside mere months of launch. The most recent casualty is Amazon Sport Studios and developer Glowmade’s on-line multiplayer dungeon-crawler/social gathering sport King of Meat.
Whereas King of Meat launched on October 7 of final 12 months on PC, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PlayStation 5 in an enormous advertising blitz–including outstanding showcases by well-known streamers and YouTubers like Mr. Beast–the sport discovered itself struggling to take care of a robust playerbase. Records on SteamDB present King of Meat struggling to carry a low double-digit participant rely over the previous month. At this time, an announcement was posted on the game’s official website stating that the sport’s servers will probably be shut down on April 9, with refunds for purchases being given to all gamers.
“Regardless of the creativity and innovation Glowmade delivered to King of Meat, the sport has sadly not discovered the viewers we hoped for,” says the submit. “Consequently, now we have made the tough choice to conclude our funding within the sport, and King of Meat’s servers will shut on April 9, 2026. Gamers will be capable of entry and play all current content material till then, so we encourage you to get pleasure from your remaining time within the sport together with your fellow Contenders.” The assertion additional goes on to make clear that refunds for the sport will probably be coming from gamers’ “platform supplier” (digital storefront of buy).
King of Meat is one more high-profile flop in each the live-service sport area and for the struggling Amazon Sport Studios, who additionally just lately introduced the shutdown of bold MMORPG New World. The mega-retailer has but to surrender on authentic sport manufacturing, nonetheless, betting huge on its upcoming revival Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis.