PANews reported on January 28th that, according to Decrypt, the free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game *Forgotten Runiverse*, built on the Ethereum scaling network Ronin, has announced it will shut down its servers, becoming the latest crypto game to cease operations. The development team stated that while they had worked hard to overcome challenges, maintaining the game's operation was no longer financially feasible, hence the decision to close the live service in its current state. All account data will be preserved, but the game will be inaccessible. The team stated they have not abandoned the project and are evaluating potential future paths.

The game originated from the Ethereum NFT project "Forgotten Runes Wizard's Cult", which was launched globally last year and received investment from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and others. It was once planned to be released on Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox platforms.