The lifetime of Darwin Project is coming to an finish.
Darwin Project developer Scavengers has introduced that it’s ceasing growth on the battle royale shooter. The game’s April replace will probably be its final “for the foreseeable future,” however servers will stay on-line at the very least till the tip of the 12 months.
In a farewell blog post, the developer mentioned it’s been making an attempt the whole lot to fight the shrinking participant base, nevertheless it couldn’t remedy the issue long-term.
“Over the past years, we saw a decreasing playerbase, and have been working hard on finding solutions –from a new platform development (PS4) to bringing new content (class system, battle passes, systemic maps, customizable craftwheel, new tiles, live events), spectator interactions extension, and continuous optimizations,” wrote Scavengers.
“We have assessed all potential solutions and scenarios, but unfortunately, Darwin Project is unable to sustain itself thus forcing us to come to this very difficult decision.”
Darwin Project has seemingly at all times struggled. After a reasonably profitable beta, it launched on PC and Xbox One early in 2018. The game’s recognition on Twitch and elsewhere began fading quickly after, nevertheless, forcing the developer to make the PC model free-to-play a month later.
It’s a disgrace, too, as a result of Darwin Project had a extremely distinctive mechanic with the present director, which might management the move of the match by concentrating on particular gamers, creating hazard zones to drive gamers collectively and so forth. It’s battle royale meets survival in a dystopian TV present wrapper.
“We truly and deeply appreciate everything the community has put into the Darwin Project,” the developer added.
“We received tons of passionate ideas and suggestions to improve the game. It shows how incredibly supportive you have been throughout this journey. We can’t thank you enough for your love and support over the past four years.”
Scavengers will now transfer over to different unannounced tasks.
