Might & Magic Showdown early access has closed with a player peak of 79, is removed from Steam entirely

Announced yesterday on its Steam community page, Might & Magic Showdown is leaving Steam, closing Early Access with immediate effect, and ceasing server support from July 31. The tactical PvP arena combat game never quite got going, with the game performing awfully over the last six months. Ubisoft has taken the difficult step of pulling the plug. Showdown hit an all-time peak of 79 concurrent players, and three in the last 24 hours, so it seems clear the decision taken is the right one.

Writing on the Steam Community page, the development team said ‘We regret to announce that Might & Magic SHOWDOWN will be shutting down on July 31, 2017, ending our Early Access period and ceasing server support. As a result, the game will be inaccessible after this date’. So if you have the game in your Steam library, it’ll remain there, but you won’t be able to play it beyond the end of the month. Which sucks for a few of you, but the player counts had dwindled so much that you couldn’t really be surprised at this news.

Showdown was a real time strategy PvP game, where players could virtually ‘paint’ their character models, which were styled after tabletop figurines. Might and Magic is a long-running RPG series that was acquired by Ubisoft in 2003. The other most recent installation was Might & Magic X: Legacy in 2014, and clearly the Showdown spinoff hasn’t uh… hasn’t performed as well as hoped.

If you were one of the folks who bought into the Early Access, the developer is willing to refund your hard-earned monies until July 31. It’s never nice to see anything or anyone fail, so hopefully the next project is better received, and Might and Magic won’t disappear entirely.