Sony Cancels Fairgame$ Over Poor Quality, Avoiding Another Concord

Sony has canceled Fairgame$, Haven Studios’ multiplayer heist shooter, after recent closed tests. Some participants have since criticized the game online, with one calling it a soulless collection of corporate ideas.

Fairgame$ was announced more than three years ago. Its cancellation follows the high-profile failure of Concord, another PlayStation multiplayer game.

The recent closed tests, previously conducted under the codename Project Espresso, led to the cancellation. Sony said the game did not meet its quality standards.

On ResetEra and Reddit, one tester said Fairgame$ had no soul and described it as “a PowerPoint presentation assembled from corporate executives’ ideas.”

Another called it “the most unpleasant alpha and beta testing experience of my life,” adding that canceling it was absolutely the right decision. Even some of the few testers who found the game partly entertaining doubted it could retain a mass audience.

Radec@realradec

Looks like this is the first official look at gameplay for FAIRGAME$ aka Break In

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r/gamingleaks

@rgamingleaks

I’m pretty confident FAIRGAME$ is getting A secret player test under the name “ PROJECT ESPRESSO” ift.tt/UJBgecy

September 10, 2026 at 21:19 · Open in X

The cancellation did not lead to layoffs. Haven Studios employees will keep their jobs and help other PlayStation Studios teams.