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Time-bending multiplayer FPS Lemnis Gate will not attain its second birthday. An update from Ratloop Video games and Frontier Foundry, posted yesterday, has knowledgeable the game’s gamers that the game might be faraway from sale on April 11 pending the ultimate shutdown of its multiplayer servers on July 11, a couple of months wanting September 28, the would-be second anniversary of its launch.

For PC gamers, July 11 would be the final attainable alternative to play Lemnis Gate in any respect, in response to the update from the devs. Whereas console gamers will be capable to “entry native multiplayer and coaching modes” on their machines seemingly in perpetuity, PC gamers will “be unable to play past that time”. Some gamers within the feedback on the announcement are begging the devs to allow native play on PC after the game dies, however there’s been no signal of a response but. Laborious luck in the event you solely just lately purchased the game, I suppose.

To be honest, the probability that anybody has forked over the money for Lemnis Gate within the final couple of months is definitely fairly slim. The game final went on sale—for 60% off—in October final yr, and since then its simultaneous participant rely has barely ever managed to hit a double digit determine. At time of writing, SteamDB lists 5 gamers in-game. It isn’t exhausting to see why the studio is pulling the plug.

However whereas it isn’t a shock, it’s a disgrace. Lemnis Gate was an attention-grabbing and progressive FPS whose core mechanic—utilizing time shenanigans to disrupt your opponent’s performs in earlier rounds—felt very recent and really bizarre when it launched in 2021. Robert Zak scored the game 84% in his Lemnis Gate assessment for PCG on the time, with specific reward for its “sensible strategizing” and “dextrous gunplay,” however noting even again then that it suffered from low participant counts that made discovering a game exhausting.

It has been a little bit of a massacre on the subject of game shutdowns in recent times. Lemnis Gate joins the doubtful ranks of video games like Hyperscape, Babylon’s Fall, Fuser, and a complete host of different video games which have moved to a pleasant farm upstate within the final yr or so. Let’s hope that is the one which lastly ends the streak?