Robocraft 2 Canceled as Developer Freejam Shuts Down Players Enviornment

Robocraft 2 developer Freejam has introduced that ongoing growth on the sport is now not sustainable, and that the studio itself may also be closing its doorways and sunsetting its different titles.

In a message on Robocraft‘s official Discord server, Freejam’s Rawxas says that “the present market situations and the server prices required” to maintain Robocraft 2 working imply that the studio is unable to launch the sport’s 1.0 model or proceed growth.

As such, Freejam says it will spend “a while” sunsetting Robocraft 2, in addition to its predecessor, “over the approaching weeks”. The studio’s cardboard survival sport CardLife may also be sunsetted together with the 2 Robocraft video games.

The dismantling of Freejam’s work has already begun; it is now not potential to purchase Robocraft 2 on the Steam retailer, though the unique sport, which is free-to-play, stays obtainable, as does CardLife (at time of writing).

It might additionally not come as a shock that Robocraft 2 is being sunsetted in case you’ve performed the sport; it is at the moment sitting at a Largely Unfavourable assessment ranking on Steam, with 1,760 gamers weighing in with their opinions.

Some adverse opinions level to technical points like an incapability to log in or issue getting the sport to run on sure platforms, however others supply extra in-depth critiques of the sport, suggesting it is didn’t strike the identical form of chord that the authentic Robocraft did.

Should you’re questioning precisely what Robocraft 2 is (or was), it is an online-focused vehicular fight sport in which you’ll be able to create and deploy your individual custom-created automobiles. Freejam says its sport’s “development programs” permit gamers to create “a large number of shapes at any scale”.

Freejam’s shutdown and Robocraft 2‘s sunsetting come at a time when a number of corporations are downsizing or outright closing down, with each larger and smaller studios being affected by the downturn.

Simply this week, Suicide Squad developer Rocksteady was reported to have laid off quite a lot of its employees on the finish of final yr, and different corporations resembling Thunderful, Do not Nod, and plenty of others have additionally been hit by layoffs.

Greater corporations like Microsoft and Sony have been affected too, though that hasn’t stopped the C-suites at these corporations raking in frankly embarrassing quantities of cash whereas they hemorrhage employees.