Riot Video games has introduced it is going to finish growth of its preventing recreation 2XKO on the finish of this yr attributable to poor uptake.
In a press release revealed on its web site, the studio stated that following 2XKO’s full launch in January, it hadn’t attracted sufficient gamers for ongoing growth to be sustainable.
Servers will stay on past 2026, and 2XKO shall be playable on all platforms, it claimed. Riot has additionally dedicated to including new content material all through the rest of this yr, together with two new characters.
“Over the previous couple of months, we’ve been monitoring 2XKO’s trajectory intently, and what we’ve seen is portray a transparent, constant image: whereas quite a lot of you jumped in to attempt the sport and there’s an unimaginable group that performs day-after-day, we haven’t seen sufficient gamers follow the sport to get to a path towards sustainability,” it stated.
“Via the remainder of 2026, we’ll be introducing content material, function enhancements, and two new champions (Lux and Samira), with the intent to ship our ultimate bug repair patch in December of this yr. After that, servers will stay on to help on-line play. Offline play is unaffected. We’ll give superior discover if any of that modifications.”
From immediately, Riot will unlock all characters within the recreation, bundling “most” beauty gadgets, and refunding all cash spent on 2XKO on or earlier than August 20.
“Any content material owned is yours to maintain,” Riot stated. “Avatar and participant profile gadgets shall be unlockable for Credit. This may occur in patch 1.3.1 (September). Extra information on this beneath.
“Our objective now’s to do proper by the gamers who’ve invested in us up to now and need to proceed taking part in 2XKO, in addition to the Rioters who’ve poured all the things into delivering on this dream. The remainder of this put up goes into element on how we bought right here, what’s altering, and what’s nonetheless to return.”