Crypto -Game Crashouts: the largest shutdowns so far in 2025

Although crypto -gaming has long been seen as an important use for blockchain, so that gamers can really possess their unique items and can exchange them freely and perhaps benefit from the success of a game, developers have difficulty supporting their games and digital economies.

Some games, such as Gunzilla Games’ Rosterhave gone through into a wider audience, obtaining adoption of both top streamers and gamers – albeit for the full blockchain integration. But many other games and studios build with tokens struggle to find players and retain financing.

A number of promoting crypto games were already closed in 2025 and the list has recently grown with every new week. Here is a look at some of the largest games that go offline or are completely closed.

Dead

Deadrop Game -Developer Midnight Society announced that it was the store In January. The studio, which had done before Co-founder Dr. Disrespect In 2024 after alleged misconduct, employees only informed for two days, according to an employee post on X.

The Extraction -Shooter game spent about two years in early access, and sells players NFT Access Passes On to Ethereum scalt network PolygonAs well as other non-nft items that eventually became useless. In March, players started to gather around the abandoned community and helped each other safely Refunds via Creditcard Returns And bank machines by claiming that the product has never been fully delivered.

Emberzwaard

Ethereum -Game Ember Sword At a certain point, more than $ 200 million received commitments for an NFT country sale, so that the level of Hype around Metaverse Gamingland conveys NFTs in 2021. But the final sale brought in much less than that, and in May the game was finally closed.

Developer Bright Star Studios mentioned a lack of financing in the final announcement – a common theme under crypto games that have stopped the development of recent times. The MMORPG entered closed beta Last July and early access later in the year, but attracted criticism from players. After moving chains several times looking for a permanent house, it has since gone offline.

“We have explored all possible ways ahead. But in the current market – where even some of the most promising projects are closed – we could not find a path to keep building,” said the project.

Nyan Heroes

The Solana Cat-Mech Shooter Game Nyan Heroes ended his run in Mayalso.

The game, which had collected more than 250,000 wish list supplements on PC gaming platforms, could not secure the necessary financing to complete the development and continue with the planned full launch next winter.

The closure made his Nyan Solana-Toks useless, which made its value fell to more than 99% discount on his all time in 2024.

“It has been difficult in recent months,” said 9 Lives CEO and creative director Max Fu Decrypt After the announcement. “We are currently investigating the acquisition of the studio and/or the IP. Some discussions are underway, but I suspect that it can take some time to complete a decision.”

Rijken of Alurya

A financing problem too signaled the apparent end of the line– at least for now –For Rijken van Alurya. The game, which was initially expected to launch on the blockchain of Treasure, was forced to migrate to the Ethereum-Gaming-oriented Sidechain Ronin While Treasure turned to concentrate on AI initiatives.

The developers claimed in a message to her community that Treasure has unexpectedly reduced the subsidy that was expected along development mile poles. Without that financing, the studio is no longer able to complete its route map and it should not get any extra support.

While the team is investigating future solutions, the game is offline until further notice.

Symbiogenesis

Final Fantasy Creator Square Enix will bring its Ethereum-based blockchain game Symbiogenesis Until an end in July.

The browser -based narrative game, which has links to several Ethereum -Schalketenspretend Arbitrum And Polygon, was first announced by Square Enix in 2022 and invoiced as a ‘Digital Collectible Art project’, with several chapters and missions to players in a new continent in the air. Recently the game did a crossover promotion with a few games on Sony’s new Ethereum Layer-2 network, Soneium, but the end is still near.

Unlike other games that are forced to fold due to a lack of product market fit or financing, the Symbiogenesis was deliberately designed to end in July 2025 if the storyline comes to his conclusion. And to be clear, Square Enix has sufficient means to keep a game like this live, making this an anomaly on this list; Maybe the game is just on its loop.

The Mystery Society

The Mystery Society, an Ethereum game that combines vibes of the casual under our game with murder mystery, Broken operations In February.

The developer of the game, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, was unable to find the financing needed to complete the game, even though he had picked up $ 3 million earlier.

The game was first launched on Polygon before it was unchangeable at the end of 2024 to Gaming-Centric Scale Chain.

After the announcement, the CEO of the game developer Chris Heatherly told Decrypt That “greed and stupidity of just about all players kills the space before it can prove itself.”

The Walking Dead: Empires

Gala Games’ Zombie theme Mmorpg The Walking Dead: Empires will find its way to the cemetery this year. The Ethereum game, who officially had a permit from the AMC show The Walking Dead, will only be played at the end of July.

“After a careful consideration, we made the difficult decision to sun sons The Walking Dead: Empires, with the last playable date set before July 31, 2025,” wrote gala -games At the beginning of May.

The game challenged players to make weapons and to build bases to protect themselves against the Ondoden, At a certain point he orders big price tags For his NFTs on the secondary market. As compensation for the closure of the game, players are given mysterious boxes filled with NFTs from other games published by Gala.

Metalcore

Mech Shooter Metalcore closed its game servers and Discord community in March, and ended communication with his community, because developer Studio 369 makes “important changes in play”. The Official X Post About the issue even limit the answers to only those that follow the metalcore account.

The game, which is still mentioned as available in the Epic Games Store, started on Ethereum Layer-2 network Unchanging ZKEVMBut a migration to Solana started last October. But since that announcement of 25 March there have been no updates, despite a mention in the post that the team will “return soon.”

Blast Royale

The developer of Mobile Game Blast Royale signaled his stopping in mid -May “After exploring each path and the possibility,” said it.

The makers of the Battle Royale-Style Game, which Had a collection of Ethereum NFTsopens its source code on 1 June, so that everyone in the community can continue where they have gone and further develop and adjust the game. But otherwise the game comes close to players on 30 June.

The noob -token of the game will still be distributed and free BaseThe Ethereum Layer-2 built by Coinbase, But it has plummeted More than 99% compared to its high price.

Mojo Melee

And the newest addition to the list, which comes on Friday, is Mojo Melee-de NFT-driven Auto-Battler game in the vein of TeamFight tactics. We went hands-on with Mojo Melee in 2023 and enjoyed it, and the game then held a promotion with Amazon to give free in-game assets to Prime subscribers.

But now developer Planet Mojo is closing the store and makes a pivot point to AI with plans to launch a film platform. Mojo Melee and the WWA platform of the studio for AI gaming agents will be closed on 1 July.

“Although we are incredibly proud of how far these projects have come and the passionate community that grew around them, shifting market realities have made it untenable to continue to develop them at the level they deserve,” said the studio on Friday in a Discord boodship Cross placed to X.

Published by Andrew Hayward