- building a great startup is hard
- building a great game is hard
- building (honourably) in crypto is hard
put it all together and realize failure was always the likeliest outcome for the majority of web3 games
the good news: only a handful remain
the likeliest handful to figure things out and make it
this is why I try to share as much as I can about how weβre building gigaverse
the players, holders, and believers have earned the right to win in the face of unlikely odds
i don't know too much about chronoforge but as in most cases, hanlon's razer applies. this is just hard, and failure was always the likeliest outcome
(nb: have seen screenshots of them calling out Abstract? not cool, never rely on a chain or ANY partner in fact to make it. be the masters of your own destiny)
anyway, silver lining? the less belief there is in games, the larger & more violent the upside will be when one of us breaks out and leads the new wave
we're gonna continue min/maxing our odds of success at gigaverse. we've had a great 2025 but 2026 we're gonna go bigger, better, harder and faster
as always: the only path is onwards
Dear Gamers,
Against many headwinds, we have kept the project running, including with personal finances from the founders since July and long hours with a team reduced by 80%.
We launched our game in Early Access on September 10th and despite bugs earnt a 4.2 rating on Epic Games, higher than our much better funded peers.
We continued to improve the game with patches and features despite no marketing budget, below sustainment-revenue, loss of codevelopers and terrible web3 gaming sentiment (bar the recent exception of the very well funded Fableborne launch).
Unfortunately we have been unable to find sufficient funding or an acquirer to continue on.
After discussions with the Rift Foundation, we have accepted the painful reality that we are unable to sustain the game or token utilities and ChronoForge will be shutting down services by 30 December, 2025.
Thank you for letting us attempt this ambitious vision and for your patience as we tried every path to keep it alive.
A detailed post mortem can be found in our community discord.