As inevitable as web3 gaming is as a concept, it’s also inevitable that the majority of blockchain games won’t be successful. So here’s our list of the games officially shutting down or rebooting as web2 experiences.
South Korean game developer Delabs Games has announced its LINE Next mini-dapp Ragnarok Libre is shutting down. Launched in August 2025, the idle RPG will close its servers on 12th February. New accounts and payments have already been shut down.
No reason was given for the decision but Delabs has pivoted towards being an AI-first game development studio based on the Verse8 platform so its future activities are likely focused on such experiences. It also has its GigBatChad baseball game live on YGG Play’s casual degen platform.
9th January 2026: Dubai-based team BoomLand has announced that “after exhausting every possible option”, it’s shutting down.
“We truly did everything we could to keep the project alive, and we stayed in the fight for as long as it was realistically possible. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to continue operating the project,” it comments on X.
Surprisingly though, the servers for its mobile/browser game Hunters On Chain will remain live during 2026, with all functionality, including the BOOM token and character and attribute NFTs continuing on Immutable.
Closed down
- Xterio’s first party 4X mobile game Age of Dino is shutting down on 30th September. A final snapshot will be taken on 29th September.
- US developer Battlebound – raised $8 million in 2022 – closed down, cancelling development of its game Anterris.
- US developer Midnight Society closed down, canning its in-development vertical shooter Deadrop.
- South Korea developer Hypedream – $7 million raised in 2021 – closed down due to a lack of funding, also closing down its Derby Stars and Derby Race games.
- Danish developer Bright Star – $20 million raised – closed down its MMORPG Ember Sword.
- US studio Laguna Labs canned its forthcoming game Neo Olympus after it failed to mint out its initial NFTs.
- Singapore dev 9 Lives Interactive – raised $13 million – ran out of funding, also closing down its in-development PC shooter Nyan Heroes.
- Overworld – the US development studio that’s part of Xterio – $10 million raised – cancelled its in-dev game Overworld, pivoting to build the games marketing and rewards blockchain REACH.
- US dev Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow – raised $3 million in 2024 – closed down, suspending development on its social deduction game The Mystery Society.
- US team Unioverse has announced via its Discord that after six months struggling to get new funding, it’s halted operations and its servers are now offline. Its parent company Random Games raised $8 million in September 2022.
Closing down
- Mobile battle royale Blast Royale will officially close on 30th June but it will be open sourced. UK developer First Light Games – raised $5 million in 2022 – is still operating.
- TGC game Cosmik Battle from French developer Cometh – $10 million raised – is being sunsetted. It “did not find a sustainable distribution channel or long-term launch partners”. The company continues to operate.
- Not officially announced but it appears that mobile game Rumble Kong League – raised $5 million in 2021 – has been sold off, reportedly – but with no evidence yet – to a Brazilian company.
- Gala Games’ The Walking Dead: Empires is shutting down, with its last playable date being 31st July. NFT holders will receive “new NFTs of equal functionality in other Gala Games products”.
Ditched web3, going web2
Paused
Game7, the gaming initiative from the blockchain project now known as Mantle, it’s announced it’s “putting Game7 as you know it on pause“, while it tries to work out how it can operate in the web3 gaming space and generate revenue.
It says that this is the result of being too ambitious in its vision, as well as relying on third party partners for its success rather than pivoting to first party development. It says it also “underestimated how long real adoption would take, which was detrimental to everything we built”.
As a result, it’s cut its burn rate to a minimum with G7’s leadership taking “significant salary cuts” to prolong its runaway. Founders and the G7 foundation have also extending their token unlocks by 12 months.
For the record, the G7 token launched in February 2025 and has dropped 93% in price since.