Lemnis Gate, a multiplayer first-person shooter that bends time, won’t turn two. The game’s players have been informed via an update from Ratloop Games and Frontier Foundry(opens in new tab) that the game will be taken off the market on April 11 until the final shutdown of its multiplayer servers on July 11, a few months before September 28, the game’s scheduled second anniversary of release.
According to the developers’ update, July 11 will be the last day for PC users to play Lemnis Gate at all. PC players “will be unable to play beyond that point,” although console players will “access local multiplayer and training modes” on their devices, seemingly indefinitely. Once the game ends, some players are pleading with the developers in the comments section of the announcement(opens in new tab), but there hasn’t been any sign of a response as of yet. I assume it’s bad luck if you just recently purchased the game.
Fair enough, the likelihood that anyone has paid for Lemnis Gate in the recent months is actually quite low. The game’s concurrent player count has hardly ever managed to reach double digits since it last went on sale—for 60% off—in October of last year. Five players are listed as in-game as of the time of writing on Steam DB . It is simple to understand why the studio is cutting the cord.
It is unfortunate, even though it is not a surprise. When Lemnis Gate was published in 2021, its fundamental mechanic—using temporal shenanigans to interfere with your opponent’s plays in earlier rounds—felt very new and extremely strange. The game was intriguing and unique. In his Lemnis Gate review(opens in new tab) for PCG at the time, Robert Zak gave the game an 84% rating and praised it for its “clever planning” and “dextrous gunplay,” but he also noted that even at the time, it had low player numbers that made it difficult to locate a game.
In recent years, game shutdowns have become somewhat of a massacre. Lemnis Gate joins the questionable company of games that have just relocated to a lovely farm in upstate New York, including Hyperscape, Babylon’s Fall, Fuser, and a whole host of others. Let’s hope that this one will be the one to end the skid.
Source : PCGAMER by Joshua Wolens