2D Multiplayer Game 'Killer Queen Black' To Shut Down Next Month

I remember seeing this game once in a Nintendo e3 thing or direct, and then forgetting it existed afterwards.

I never heard of this game before.

Oh yeah that sucks, I heard that game was good. I guess that’s what happens to online indie games, they can just be shut down whenever

The games is super solid, and just never had enough people playing it. Sad story as old as time. Only this time it was a game I really like.

And kudos to them for trying to open source it. I wish more developers would do that.

It's a great party game if you have a few friends over at the house, but there's really nothing here for folks who mostly play solo. Love that title screen track though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6_9cuBkig

Bummer. It's a really fun game, but it was DOA online, unless you had an 8 player group to play with. Even if you had a 4 player team, the matchmaking could take a few minutes and you'd still get matched up with a team of 2 humans and 2 bots.

For a moment I had a sense of deja vu but, unlike Overwatch, this one lists "offline: 1-4 players" on eShop, so at least it does not seem like the game itself is going poof. Good thing, too - I struggle to keep track of all the delistings (like Gods Remastered whose departure back in spring completely went under my radar... and they actually had farewell sales, too!🙄), so the fewer of them I have to deal with per year, the better.

EDIT: on a related side note, though, I got Overwatch 2 in my newsfeed and decided to toss it into the library seeing as it's free... somehow the automatically added icon on my home screen shows and reads Overwatch itself. A bug, or are they actually just using a fancy roundabout way of going F2P like Rocket League and Fall Guys before them?🤔😆

At least it can still be played local multiplayer, so its not like the game is actually shutting down or coming off the eshop, etc. It really is a solid, fun local party game, too (and in my opinion, the superior way to play anyway).

You will still be able to play multiplayer through local wireless play on Switch. So not all is lost. I still need to pick up a second copy.

I bought it. I never played because there was no one ever online.

But I just bought this game

I mostly played this game at the arcade, but I really don't find myself in arcades very often.

I snatched this up when it first came out on Switch, and it translated very well to a home TV screen.

I played it heavily, then a new game came out that took my attention away from it, and when I tried to hop back on, the online community just wasn't there anymore.

Great game, and hope they find a way to keep it alive.

Wait that came out?,
I only remember It as "that one game they showed in E3 2018"

If all the barcades ditched the Killer Queens and the skeeball and the giant jenga, they would have room for like 12 Astro City cabs.

Support this indie developers, they said.

@27celsius Yeah, in late 2019 iirc.

@Scrubicius It's absolutely not the fault of the devs, did you even read a single line of the article?

Loaded it up the other week and couldn't find a single person online to match with. Just had a couple of games with bots.

Absolutely loved this game. Shame it never caught on the way it deserved. I’ll be dreaming of having 8 players locally!

That's a real shame. I have this game and it's already difficult to find players online but it's really fun when you do find a match. At least it will still be playable offline.

Maybe if enough people play the game, they might bring it back? I loved it.

@Bret who said they are?

Well except of deciding for the incorrect Tech! 😂

RIP, this game was soooo good when it launched on PC and still had a sizeable community, it’s such a shame that ideas like this game can’t gain wider attention. It’s so much more of an esport in my eyes than say a COD or some other paint by numbers FPS.

I didn't love the change they made to combat with the queen for the home version, which I though made combat really the only way to go 90% of the time breaking the 3 ways to win that makes the game so fun in the arcade.

Disappointing about Amazon shutting them down by not supporting Gamesparks. It's the danger of using a service provider and as we saw w/Google Stadia earlier this week, it doesn't matter how big of a partner you have, shut-downs come and can break your heart and your game.

Such a shame. I played this in the arcades a few times and it is such a great game causing a real buzz around the cabinet reminiscent of 90's arcade atmosphere. And, my ex-work buddy was actually on a semi-pro team for KQB! Admittedly, I own the physical game for Switch, but have never played it. Oh, well. Honestly, it is probably a better experience in the arcade, but still a shame it can no longer be played online, at least for now.

Lesson learned: never trust your game to such kind of dedicated servers.

It's still a great game. I bought the physical edition as we have four Switch consoles in our home and sharing the cart makes it easy for anyone to play. It sucks the online portion is going down, but honestly I always play locally so this news doesn't affect me. It's a fun game for up to eight players locally (or bots if needed) that I can easily recommend anyone to pickup if you just want a fun couch co-op game. The fun comes from multiple victory types. One is to hoard the max number of eggs, another cross the map aboard a slug, and the third kill the enemy queen. With a few players it gets pretty frantic especially when you are focusing on one goal only to have the other team accomplish a completely different goal and win. I recommend to pick it up physically if you'd like or wishlist it in hopes that it goes on sale on the eShop for $2 again. Again, the online component going away doesn't affect the games playability in solo or local modes (the only modes I ever played).

Reminder: The cloud is just someone else's computer.
If you don't own the silicon that your game server runs on, someone else turn it off in an instant. Stop outsourcing.

I’m an old fan of the Midway classic Joust, so I picked up KQB cheap digitally and played a few matches online, in 2020 maybe? I liked it a lot and would have been online more if not for too many games, too little time.

I never did pick this up physically, but I’ll try to rectify that. Maybe someday an occasion will arise for couch co-op.

I’m curious to see what this team is working on next!

This a cult arcade game that really thrives with local play, so as long as they leave that there's still life to it. But saying that I think it needs quite a few players?

Does the NSW version support local wifi (1 player per Switch console)? If it does they should make the game free on November 30th onwards.

This can't be the only game that will be affected by this?

Duuuuuuude that sucks. KQB is a near perfect multi-player game and easily my favorite in 2d. This really stinks.

That really sucks. It’s one of the funnest new arcade games.

Didn't even know this game existed.

Its a good multiplayer game, and I'm saying this as someone who usually don't do multiplayer. Too bad they didn't make an offline version.

@Highlar
They said on Twitter that the game will be delisted from storefronts on October 6th.

https://twitter.com/killerqueenblk/status/1577363191083851776?t=tSkO1jmkvkIQBvbrKD2hVg&s=19

"It's a great party game if you have a few friends over at the house, but there's really nothing here for folks who mostly play solo."

I looked into this game multiple times, it is by all accounts a good game. But I read about the team strategy, multiple paths to victory, etc. and I knew it would be way over the head of my casual gaming family. They aren't into anything more complex than Overcooked. And since solo is by all accounts a complete waste of time, I passed.

Killer Queen is an absolutely incredible game design, but to actually get the experience of it you need 8 people who know what they're doing and want to dedicate at least 30-60 minutes to playing the same game together, and that's rare enough to just almost never happen for a small indie title.

If you ever see the full two-cabinet setup at an arcade or convention, though, don't pass it up. It's worth playing, for sure. (They just had it at the Pittsburgh Gaming Expo this last weekend, so I actually just played a bunch of it, which I hadn't done for well over a year.)

This was a great game and this is too bad, and too soon. I enjoyed it a bunch.

I bet my physical copy will increase in value due to this news

Why can't they transition to the amazon version of the service?

I own this game and I didn’t even realize it had an online mode. I just play it when people come over.

will still buy the physical copy one day to satisfy my collector itch.

Great game, sorry to hear that heppening. Have it physical and it's fun for local multiplayer. Would recommend picking it upt while you can, the physical game comes with a joy con skin too

I literally just tried to come back to the game after seeing it in my library and learned this the hard way. Man that’s saddening…