Nexon’s Warhaven is shutting down this Spring, after what will probably be seven months of early entry on Steam and earlier than its deliberate console launch.
In an announcement on Steam, the event group at Nexon mentioned it was with a “heavy coronary heart” that it will quickly be shutting down the sword-based multiplayer title’s stay service operations.
“To create a sport that could possibly be cherished and loved over an prolonged interval, we invested a lot consideration and energy,” Nexon’s assertion reads. “Nonetheless, regrettably, we should bid our honest farewell as of April 5, 2024. We apologize that we couldn’t come to you with higher information.”
Warhaven noticed groups of gamers battling towards one another with varied weapon-based courses, with the flexibility to rework into one in all 4 highly effective Immortal characters as soon as per match to show the tide of battle. It launched into Steam early entry on September 20, 2023, with Nexon planning to implement suggestions over the course of improvement and for the sport to depart early entry someday in early 2024. Since launch, Warhaven acquired common occasion updates, steadiness patches, and two new courses, the Bard and Claw.
It was solely in December that the sport’s director, Eunseok Yi, in a post on Steam mentioned that 2024 would convey “nice adjustments” to Warhaven and that the group seemed ahead to celebrating “200 and 300 days collectively” since its early entry launch.
Sadly, it appears Warhaven by no means fairly discovered an viewers. The sport at present sports activities a “Blended” common person evaluate rating on Steam, and following an all-time participant peak of greater than 10,000 gamers shortly after launch, has struggled to surpass greater than 300 gamers within the final month, in keeping with SteamDB.
It was introduced across the time of the sport’s Steam launch that Warhaven would come to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X|S in 2024. Nonetheless, it by no means acquired a particular launch date and no extra information concerning the console variations had been shared previous to the shutdown announcement.
Warhaven is much from the one free-to-play live-service sport to close down in latest months. Bandai Namco’s Overwatch-inspired shooter Gundam Evolution lasted a 12 months earlier than going offline in November 2023. Final 12 months, Iron Galaxy’s free-to-play wrestler royale Rumbleverse shut down after simply six months of service. In the meantime, within the cellular sport area, a brand new rhythm sport introduced its launch date, and server closure date, on the identical time.