In a move that shouldn’t surprise anyone keeping score, Babylon’s Fall isn’t going to be around much longer.
There was a healthy degree of hype going into the launch of Babylon’s Fall. It was another joint venture between publisher Square Enix and developer Platinum Games – a partnership that previously brought us the magnificent NieR: Automata. Sadly, lightning didn’t strike twice.
On Tuesday, Square Enix announced that all online functionality for Babylon’s Fall will shut down on Feb. 27, 2023.
“It is with deep regret to inform you that we will be terminating the game’s service,” reads a statement on the Babylon’s Fall website. “As a result, we will also cancel the large-scale updates that we had planned.”
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Babylon’s Fall only came out on March 3, 2022, so it won’t even be a year old by the time everything shuts down. A pretty rough situation all around.
The downward spiral arguably began once a demo for Babylon’s Fall came out that wasn’t at all well received. Soon after, critics absolutely thrashed the game – it currently has a dismal Metacritic score of 46 on PC.
Earlier this spring, the concurrent player numbers fell off a cliff. There were even instances of only one person playing Babylon’s Fall on Steam.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
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