Free-to-play mech extraction shooter Steel Hunters, originally revealed at 2024’s The Game Awards, will shut down just a few months after its early access launch, developer Wargaming has announced.
Servers will shut down on October 8, around seven months after the game’s launch. The PC-only shooter released in early April but never seemed to find an audience, having only reached a concurrent player peak of 4,479 shortly after launch, according to SteamDB. In recent weeks the game’s player count has hovered around the 250 mark.
“You’ve given us so much passion and support but unfortunately we’ve come to the conclusion that continuing development is not sustainable,” Wargaming’s statement on the sunsetting of Steel Hunters reads. “We know this isn’t the news anyone wanted to hear and we genuinely share in your disappointment.”
