Ethereum Games ‘Realms of Alurya’ and ‘Wonder Wars’ Latest to Go Offline

The builders of two video games on the Ethereum gaming-centric Ronin community have introduced they’ll not be working because of difficulties in securing continued improvement funding. 

The groups behind Realms of Alurya and Marvel Wars each shared this week that they have been unable to give you the mandatory funding to proceed working their respective Ethereum-powered video games.

“Sadly, regardless of all the eagerness and energy, we weren’t capable of safe the mandatory funding to develop a dwell service sport for the approaching years, and we additionally didn’t attain the important thing metrics wanted to make Marvel Wars a sustainable or worthwhile sport in the long term,” posted developer Howdy Monster on X (previously Twitter). 

“For that reason, we’ve made the troublesome determination to close down Howdy Monster, and because of this, Marvel Wars as properly, because the mission is not financially viable,” the workforce added.

The mission will forgo launching its utility token because of the shutdown, including that it “wouldn’t be trustworthy” to launch a token with out objective, counting on pure hypothesis. 

Realms of Alurya can even be offline within the close to future, although its long-term plans usually are not as clear as Howdy Monster’s shutdown. 

The sport just lately migrated to Ronin after the builders stated an exclusivity contract with Treasure’s blockchain—which made Treasure the writer of its sport and supplied improvement funding grants—was abruptly ended.



Treasure just lately introduced that it could stop publishing video games and wind down its chain amid a pivot to AI, additionally fueled by funding points.

“With none prior discover, Treasure knowledgeable us that each one agreements have been being terminated instantly, and with that, their help for video games on their chain would finish,” reads a Discord message from Realms of Alurya’s artistic director and co-founder, Oscar Soler.

In accordance with the message, the workforce hoped its current Hunt & Mint occasion would supply it sufficient time to hunt further funding—nevertheless it was unsuccessful. 

“We have been shocked, to say the least. Our complete yearly roadmap was constructed across the assumption that this funding would come by,” the message stated of Treasure’s alleged funding pull.

“We now discover ourselves in uncharted waters,” it continues. “We screwed up relying a lot on our writer. We’ve by no means thought {that a} respected enterprise like Treasure might do that; that’s on us. We all know now that we should always have had a secondary supply of funding, we’ve discovered our lesson the arduous method.”

Additional Discord messages point out that the sport will likely be offline till additional discover because the workforce investigates potential options going ahead. 

Representatives for Realms of Alurya and Treasure didn’t instantly reply to Decrypt’s requests for remark. 

The discontinuations proceed a rising development in crypto gaming through which publishers and video games are ceasing operations, some because of monetary constraints and others because of a scarcity of gamers—or some mixture of the 2.

Solana cat-shooter sport Nyan Heroes shut down earlier this month because of the developer’s incapacity to safe funding, with Ethereum sport Ember Sword following swimsuit final week. Months earlier, Ethereum’s The Thriller Society closed its doorways for a similar cause.

Later, Gala Video games introduced the approaching shutdown of its zombie-themed sport, The Strolling Useless: Empires, as properly. And there have been different, smaller shutdown bulletins in current months, as properly.

Alongside gaming shutdowns, gaming-centric tokens have been arduous hit as properly. Solely IMX, the token for Ethereum-based gaming platform Immutable, represents the crypto gaming trade inside the highest 100 tokens by market cap in keeping with CoinGecko.

Edited by Andrew Hayward