Free-to-play mech extraction shooter Metal Hunters, initially revealed at 2024’s The Recreation Awards, will shut down just some months after its early entry launch, developer Wargaming has introduced.
Servers will shut down on October 8, round seven months after the sport’s launch. The PC-only shooter launched in early April however by no means appeared to search out an viewers, having solely reached a concurrent participant peak of 4,479 shortly after launch, based on SteamDB. In latest weeks the sport’s participant rely has hovered across the 250 mark.
“You’ve got given us a lot ardour and help however sadly we have come to the conclusion that persevering with growth isn’t sustainable,” Wargaming’s statement on the sunsetting of Metal Hunters reads. “We all know this is not the information anybody needed to listen to and we genuinely share in your disappointment.”
Nonetheless, gamers have the subsequent 90 days to nonetheless play the sport, throughout which Wargaming will unlock all the sport’s distinctive Hunters (together with new Hunters that have been presumably nonetheless in growth), in addition to introduce the flexibility to host customized video games. A last “farewell” event can also be being deliberate, with Wargaming stating it’ll share extra particulars within the sport’s official Discord server quickly.
Metal Hunters sees gamers pilot huge mechs referred to as Hunters. Some mechs are humanoid in look, whereas others are huge mechanical animals paying homage to the mechs from the anime sequence Zoids. Every mech will be personalized and modified with numerous weapons, mods, and talents. The sport was an extraction shooter, one the place gamers would drop in, purchase loot from battling NPC enemies, and try to flee, all of the whereas avoiding or battling different player-controlled Hunter squads.
“From the very first days of the Alpha you’ve got formed Metal Hunters together with your vitality, creativity, and dedication, and we’re honored to have had you on this journey,” Wargaming’s shutdown discover reads. “We could not have wished for a greater neighborhood and we’ll miss you all dearly.”
Wargaming could also be shutting down Metal Hunters, but it surely nonetheless operates a number of live-service titles. A kind of video games is World of Tanks, which just lately introduced it’s introducing tank variations of two ’90s gaming icons.
Metal Hunters is not the primary live-service sport to be gone too quickly, and it probably will not be the final. Nexon’s free-to-play multiplayer melee title Warhaven shut down after simply seven months and forward of a deliberate console launch final 12 months, and Sony’s shooter Harmony infamously barely lasted per week earlier than it was introduced servers would go offline. EA just lately introduced it could lastly pull the plug on Anthem’s servers, with gamers having till January 2026 to play BioWare’s live-service shooter.