The Biggest Shutdowns in 2025

Whereas crypto gaming has lengthy been seen as a key use for blockchain, letting avid gamers actually personal and freely commerce their distinctive gadgets and maybe revenue from a sport’s success, builders are struggling to maintain their video games and digital economies.

Some video games, like Gunzilla Video games’ Off the Grid, have punched by way of to a broader viewers, gaining adoption from prime streamers and avid gamers alike—albeit forward of full blockchain integration. However many different video games and studios constructing with tokens are struggling to search out gamers and preserve funding.

In 2025, plenty of once-promising crypto video games closed up store, with the listing rising steadily all year long. Right here’s a have a look at a number of the largest video games to go offline or shut down totally.

Deadrop

Its closure rendered its NYAN Solana token ineffective, plummeting its worth to greater than 99% off its all-time excessive established in 2024.

“It has been a tough previous couple of months,” 9 Lives CEO and Artistic Director Max Fu informed Decrypt following the announcement. “At the moment, we’re exploring acquisition of the studio and/or the IP. Some discussions are underway, however I believe it could take a while to finalize a call.”

Realms of Alurya

A funding challenge additionally signaled the tip of the road for Realms of Alurya. The sport, which was initially anticipated to launch on Treasure’s blockchain, was compelled emigrate to the Ethereum gaming-focused sidechain Ronin as Treasure pivoted to deal with AI initiatives.

The builders claimed in a message to its group that Treasure unexpectedly reduce grant funding that was anticipated alongside developmental milestones. With out that funding, the studio mentioned it was now not in a position to full its roadmap, and has but to safe further backing. In late June, the studio confirmed that the sport was completed for good.

Symbiogenesis

Last Fantasy creator Sq. Enix introduced its Ethereum-based blockchain sport Symbiogenesis to an finish in July.

The browser-based narrative sport, which has hyperlinks to a number of Ethereum scaling chains, like Arbitrum and Polygon, was first introduced by Sq. Enix in 2022 and billed as a “digital collectible artwork venture,” providing a number of chapters and quests to gamers in a brand new continent set within the sky. Only in the near past, the sport did a crossover promotion with a pair video games on Sony’s new Ethereum layer-2 community, Soneium, however the finish was nonetheless set in stone.

Not like different video games which have been compelled to fold attributable to an absence of product market match or funding, the Symbiogenesis roadmap has been deliberately designed to finish in July 2025 because the storyline involves its conclusion. And to be clear, Sq. Enix has ample sources to maintain a sport like this dwell, making this an anomaly on this listing; perhaps the sport simply ran its course.

The Thriller Society

The Thriller Society, an Ethereum sport that blended vibes of the informal Amongst Us sport with homicide thriller, suspended operations in February.

The sport’s developer, Nice Massive Lovely Tomorrow, was unable to search out the funding crucial to finish the sport, regardless of having beforehand raised $3 million.

The sport first launched on Polygon earlier than migrating to gaming-centric scaling chain Immutable in late 2024.

After the announcement, the sport developer’s CEO Chris Heatherly informed Decrypt that “greed and stupidity from nearly all gamers is killing the area earlier than it could actually show itself.”

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Tokyo Beast

Tokyo Beast barely had an opportunity to dwell earlier than it died, with builders speedrunning the crypto gaming lifespan and saying the upcoming demise of the sport simply weeks after it launched. The makes of the cell fight sport introduced the information in July, following the June 9 launch, with the servers shuttering on August 24.

There was excellent news amid the frustration, nonetheless, with the builders revealing plans to compensate consumers of Tokyo Beast NFTs on Ethereum layer-2 community Immutable zkEVM, in addition to individuals who had staked the related TGT token.

Pirate Nation

Pirate Nation, a role-playing sport with all belongings and sport logic put on-chain, had endured for a pair years, even amid a transition from Polygon to Arbitrum to chop prices. However in August, developer Proof of Play mentioned that the sport might be shut down in favor of the workforce launching bite-sized video games utilizing chunks of the general expertise.

Like many different video games on this listing, the devs cited excessive prices to help the sport with a small consumer base. Proof of Play will proceed constructing on-chain infrastructure and says it will help the PIRATE token, which is down 92% from its peak as of this writing.

“Shutting down Pirate Nation was one of the crucial tough choices I’ve ever been a part of,” Adam Fern, co-founder and product lead, wrote on X. “I really like Pirate Nation and I spent practically seven days every week for the previous three-plus years on it, however the reality is it wasn’t ever going to be a breakout, mass market success.”

Ragnarok: Monster World

Cellular tower protection sport Ragnarok: Monster World introduced that its service would finish on December 30. The assertion on X claimed that the workforce had completed their “absolute best” to maintain the sport alive, however had confronted “monetary challenges that made operations more and more tough.”

The Conflict Royale-like sport was a spin-off from the Ragnarok On-line role-playing franchise, which was developed by the South Korean studio Gravity. The social media assertion mentioned the choice to close the sport got here after a dialogue with IP creator Gravity. That mentioned, followers of the sport had been offended it was shutting down, with some claiming it “tarnished” the Ragnarok IP.

Moonfrost

Position-playing farming simulator Moonfrost determined to chop crypto from its crop of options this yr, whereas persevering with to develop its Web2 sport. The announcement on X acknowledged that crypto made the sport “too massive, advanced, and gradual to develop,” making it laborious to cater to each a Web2 and Web3 viewers.

In doing this, the sport determined to launch on Steam and go away the Open Loot crypto market. It added that crypto belongings gained’t go to waste and can translate into some form of reward for the Steam title. Specifics on this have but to be introduced, over a month after the information was revealed.

Dragginz

Right here’s a singular one: MMORPG Dragginz entered “hibernation” in October. The announcement got here as the sport’s builders shifted focus to its NFT creator and market, Toko App, leaving Dragginz on ice. The workforce cited an absence of funding to develop the sport and app in tandem. Dragginz was being constructed round belongings on the Web Pc community.

The transfer was branded as a “step ahead” for Dragginz, because the Toko App will apparently be used as a solution to give NFTs actual utility. Within the meantime, the announcement mentioned, any transfer in its token value “has no that means” as the sport is just not dwell.

“Consider it as hunkering all the way down to survive by way of the lengthy chilly crypto winter,” the submit mentioned. “When spring comes, Dragginz might be able to roar!”

Age of Dino

Age of Dino introduced a “vital milestone” in August, which meant its technique sport could be shuttered because it appeared to launch a “broader ecosystem.”

Making an attempt to border the closing of the sport as a constructive didn’t go down effectively with group members, lots of whom alleged the builders had been simply quitting the venture. It has been months since this announcement now with little or no replace from the workforce.

Jungle

In the event you weren’t within the Discord, you’d have missed this one.

Jungle, a crypto cell gaming ecosystem that raised $6 million in 2023, informed its Discord group in April that it could be leaving Web3 to “deal with creating [its] sport as a cell free-to-play title solely.” The submit mentioned the transfer was completed to “make sure the survival of the venture going ahead.”

Its public communications on social media have been silent since February, and the workforce didn’t reply to an e mail from Decrypt.

Captain Tsubasa Rivals

Soccer sport Captain Tsubasa Rivals shut store in November. The title put a crypto spin on a manga collection initially launched in 1981, and the workforce claimed to have a “long-term” imaginative and prescient, however mentioned it turned “tough to proceed” creating the sport.

Fortuitously for followers, whereas the flagship sport on the Polygon and Oasys blockchains closed, the Telegram tap-to-earn mini-app of the identical title continues on.

Editor’s notice: This story was initially revealed on Might 31, 2025 and final up to date with new particulars on December 21.