Systemic Reaction, the developers of the co-op dino survival shooter Second Extinction, have announced that the game has been delisted on both PC and Xbox, with the developers prepping to completely shut down the servers in 2024. Originally, Second Extinction was supposed to release out of Early Access and Xbox Game Preview in 2022, but the launch was delayed until this year, though now the developers have cancelled the whole thing.
In a post on Steam about the announcement earlier this week, Systemic Reaction go into details about why the decision has been made, with the reasons including the game’s failure to achieve a certain level of success, and the “show-stopping issues” that stopped Second Extinction from getting it’s full launch last year.
Systemic Reaction added: “We initially planned to launch the 1.0 version late last year, but the discovery of a few critical issues forced us to pull back close to the release. Unfortunately, it became clear that our small team lacked the resources necessary to hit our quality targets and exit Early Access and Game Preview, and the investment needed to do so was too large for us to bear.”
Second Extinction has already been delisted, but it will still be available to play for a while for those who have purchased the game. Unfortunately though, Second Extinction was designed as an always online game, even if you intended to play the game solo, so once those servers are turned off next year, Second Extinction will be gone forever. The devs confirmed this news on Twitter (or X if you’re feeling spicy), as well as stating that implementing a single-player or offline mode to the game would require a significant overhaul that the devs simply don’t have the resources for.
In perhaps the only positive news to come out of this, Systemic Reaction did confirm that there have been no lay-offs among the team following Second Extinction’s delisting. The talent involved have since been reassigned to other projects within the Avalanche Studios Group, the developer’s parent company. Given how lay-off heavy this year has been within the gaming industry, it’s refreshing to see developers who haven’t been sacrificed to appease the money gods.
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