10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Shut Down In 2024
8. Redfall
Now technically speaking, you can still play Arkane Austin's woefully disappointing FPS Redfall, but for all intents and purposes the game has now been abandoned by the developer and is effectively left in "maintenance mode."
Despite publisher Bethesda initially planning for Redfall to be a decade-long experience, mediocre reviews caused the game to drop to an average of less than 200 concurrent players on Steam within two weeks of release.
It quickly fell out of the gaming consciousness until last May, when Microsoft confirmed that they were shuttering Arkane Austin and therefore ceasing future development on Redfall, prompting them to refund players who'd pre-purchased the now-cancelled Hero DLC.
On May 30, Arkane dropped the last update for the game, which finally added two hugely requested features - the ability to pause while playing single-player, and an offline mode.
Redfall's servers are actually still online, though at the time of press there are rarely more than two-dozen people playing on Steam.
Without a passionate community behind it, the game is functionally dead, and it's surely just a matter of time before Microsoft finishes the job by taking the servers down.