Steel Hunters, the mech shooter from World of Tanks' devs, gets a shutdown date just three months after releasing in early access

"We cognize this isn't the quality anyone wanted to hear"

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Steel Hunters, a free-to-play mech shooter from World of Tanks devs Wargaming, was lone revealed past December. An aboriginal entree merchandise successful April this twelvemonth followed that Keighley Awards cameo, and conscionable 3 months on, the game's been fixed a shutdown date.

It's not rather a Concord-level speedrun from the live-service cradle to the live-service grave, but it's inactive a beauteous speedy one.

"Today we stock hard news: we've made the determination to sunset Steel Hunters," Wargaming wrote successful an update station connected Steam, "You've fixed america truthful overmuch passionateness and enactment but unluckily we've travel to the decision that continuing improvement is not sustainable. We cognize this isn't the quality anyone wanted to perceive and we genuinely stock successful your disappointment."

Wargaming volition beryllium keeping the game's servers moving for 3 much months, meaning they'll unopen down astir October 8th. Between present and then, the devs volition beryllium rolling retired worldly similar customized crippled support, a crippled mode that has each mech unlocked truthful folks tin effort retired immoderate they fancy, and a "farewell tournament" organised via the game's Discord server.

Our Edwin saw a spot of Steel Hunters portion helium was astatine the Game Awards, and wrote the following:

I can’t accidental I’m blown distant by what I’ve seen of Steel Hunters. It’s a cobbling unneurotic of genres and sci-fi archetypes that already feels similar it’s going to thrust principally connected the relation with World Of Tanks. It seems sturdily-made, however, and I’m benignant of charmed by Wargaming’s ridiculous insistence connected having their precise ain connection for co-op teamwork – "Duo Symbiosis".

Here's hoping the devs and players who made and were digging Steel Hunters tin bask these last fewer months with the game.