The "fantasy-action" battle royale Spellbreak has announced it will be shutting down its servers "early" next year.
The live service game has only been around since 2018, and was released on the Nintendo Switch in September 2020 as a free-to-download title. In this time millions of playes have apparently participated in the fun.
Here's the full message from the development team:
Breakers,
After more than four years of elemental magic and spell combinations, we’ve made the decision to end development of Spellbreak. The servers will be shut down as of early 2023. Thank you to the millions of players who have joined us in the Hollow Lands since 2018; it’s been an amazing journey.
Our vision was to create a fresh, multiplayer action-spellcasting game with exceptional movement and class customization that would give players the chance to unleash their inner battlemage. We are grateful to everyone in the game’s community for exploring the magical worlds and experiences we created together. Spellbreak was an ambitious project that saw our team push new boundaries in design and development and we are excited to continue to innovate as we create new titles in the future.
To all Spellbreak fans around the world, thank you for the support and dedication that made the game and community so special.
Sincerely,
Spellbreak Development Team
If you have enjoyed this game, you might want to get in the last remaining game sessions while you still can. Did you ever try this title out on the Switch? Sad to see it go? Leave a comment below.
[source go.playspellbreak.com]
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Never even heard of this game. No wonder it’s getting the axe.
It was built to compete with fortnight and lost... no suprises here
I've never played this game, but whenever I play a free-to-play battle royale game I worry it will shut down while I'm enjoying it, such as the recent shut down announcement of Super Bomberman R online or even Mario 35 for that matter. I worry Fall Guys will someday walk into the graveyard as well. It's an unfortunate transient nature of many free-to-play games compared to offline games you buy once and have forever.
I think I saw it when it came out, but lost sight of it as other games came out too. It's a shame, this looks like something I'd have loved to have played more of. A non-gun battle royale would have been right up my alley. So sad.
The game genuinely looked quite cool.
But "F2P, multiplayer only, battle royale" are just major red flags i won't poke with a 10 foot pole.
They put up a bold effort lasting as long as they did. But it's a Fortnite market — for better or for worse. Every other free-to-play just happens to be along for the ride.
sincerely sad about this. I really enjoyed this game, and felt like it scratched an itch that a lot of other BR's were not scratching for me. the fantasy aesthetic, and the mechanics were really tight. I hate that Fortnite has washed yet another great game out of the market... I'm probably never going to play a BR again.
aww bummer. I like this better than Fortnite, like a fantasy version of it. The elemental gauntlet idea is fun
Honestly was neat. but got stale for me. Wouldve probly been better lasting if they had a capture the flag mode.
Another game online that bite the dust of servers shut down...
This is sad, as games with low or moderate success are extinguited and next, to the forgotten land....
Another free to play battle royale? I don't think I'll ever understand the appeal. They're all terrible
4+ years would be ironically respectable by mobile freemium standards nowadays... except we're talking a console battle royale of all things instead. A bummer even though its genre and multiplayer focus meant the game had little to hook me for long - the premise and the visuals were still pretty damn neat.
I tried it, not for me. I'd cry if Apex leaves 😭
@Emmerichcoal Is Apex any good on Switch?
That’s why I like my games physical; that’s why I don’t touch free to play games regardless of how fair or fun they may seem. After a while ‘they’ take your times and flush it to the toilet.
Sure many think they have fun for what it last even if they invested hundreds and thousands of dollars in the game. But for me only the thought that one day I simply could not log in to something I invested years of my life, is absurd.
I have played and enjoyed the game for a while. It became stale eventuallly. Me and my friends have always been dissapointed that there were no new magics introduced, ever. I think BR games need to freshen up every season, like Fortnite does every time. Either with new gameplay mechanics, a new map or new items. Spellbreak did almost none of those.
Communication is key, and from the sound of it a lot of people don’t even know the game exist.
@Ara do you mean you just don’t like pure live service games altogether? Because even if you did own These types of games in physical form, if the servers shut down, it’s over.
But I know what you mean, just trying to clarify.
SpellBreak was the only battle royal game I liked and enjoyed playing! It's better than fartnite... I mean Fortnite xD I'm upset that the games servers are being shut down but I'm excited to see what new game(s) the creators make. Now I gotta find another good Battle Royale game to play/stream next year...
@GrailUK
Ive tried it on switch but I just cant recommend it at all. Its a great game literally anywhere else (even Apex Legends Mobile) but the switch Version suffers so much from a trchnical standpoint. If you have any other system to play on I would recommend it.
It was a really fun game, I even splurged a couple of bucks on it, so it's sad to see this. But, I haven't logged in for ages, and I suspect many with me.
What they COULD do is turn these assets into a single player action RPG experience, because story wise it had a lot of potential.
I tried it out for like half an hour before, it was alright but I always figured I'd just play Fortnite instead.
Know of one streamer who plays this all the time though, sure that will be sad news for her.
I vaguely remember seeing a trailer... yeah not surprised.
If only it wasn't a free to play garbage then perhaps more people would had play it.
@GrailUK By far it's not the best version, but I have fun and I've won a few times. You'll wont find 60 FPS and bigs resolutions but it's cool.
I had already gotten burnt out on Fortnite before I gave this a shot, so my Battle Royale patience was already worn thin. Good concept though. Being able to fly around and fight like a bender from Avatar was more appealing than most of what Fortnite had to offer.
I'd say I'm sad to see it go, but its like a tree falling in the woods.
Honestly it was a really fun game with a lot of interesting twists on the genre. i liked playing it way more than fortnite and aesthetically it was infinitely less obnoxious.
But as a f2p game it relied on cosmetics to generate revenue and frankly all of the cosmetics were resoundingly unexciting. they were not ugly by any means but in no way inspired purchases.
it sucks that the life of a game like that relies on something so frivolous.
@GrailUK it's honestly okay. A little grainy and down graded graphics. But it's not bad. Definitely a lot easier docked. I play Apex on my PS4. But will go on switch to play with my switch friends so they don't get destroyed in the regular lobbies.
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