Orcs Must Die! Unchained takes the award-winning Orcs Must Die! Action tower defense game to a whole new level with team-based gameplay! Bust skulls with your best pals in PvE co-op Survival, or put your teamwork to the real test in Sabotage Mode! Orcs Must Die! Unchained is the third game in the Orcs Must Die! Franchise, though it doesn't play the same as the other games. 2 the player finds himself fighting a horde of orcs, while in OMD! Unchained the player doesn't just fight against a horde of orcs, but also other players. You still place traps to kill orcs, but this time you also send hordes of orcs to the enemy.

Free-to-play defend-o-shooter and both games in Robot Entertainment’s turn-based Hero Academy series are set to close their doors this April. In to players, CEO Patrick Hudson explains that the games simply cost more to run than they make back in return. The studio itself doesn’t seem to be in immediate danger, with Robot currently working on two new games that they plan to unveil later this year. Account registration for the games should end soon, but the last few Unchained players will find themselves with a sack of currency to spend over these final three months.It’s sad to see another decent free-to-play game go down, but it’s not a massive surprise in the case of Orcs Must Die Unchained. In its original form, it was intended to be a third-person MOBA-like with trap building elements. While not a terrible idea on paper, and Philippa Warr quite liked it in four years ago, it wasn’t really what fans of the earlier games wanted. As something more in line with the solo and co-op styled earlier games in the series, but it never really drew the crowds back.

It’s a real shame in the case of OMD! Unchained, as I really feel it had evolved into a decent successor to the first two Orcs Must Die games.

Unfortunately without a major PR push, you only get one chance to make first impressions. As for the Hero Academy games, they were always a mobile-focused series.

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Unfortunately audience numbers had dwindled to the point that it wasn’t even worth updating the original game for newer versions of iOS, and it was pulled from the App Store in 2018. The card-based sequel, but never caught on.There’s three months left in Orcs Must Die! Unchained and Hero Academy yet, although sign-ups for new players will be closing at some point between now and when the lights go out on April 8th. Active players of Unchained are due to receive “a substantial free grant of hard and soft currencies” to make those last weeks memorable. Don’t spend it all in one place – or do, if you like.

Developer Robot Entertainment announced today that is shutting down the servers for three of its games. On April 8, the company will shutter Orcs Must Die: Unchained, Hero Academy, and Hero Academy 2.

Orcs Must Die: Unchained was the online multiplayer entry in the action strategy series. Hero Academy and its sequel are turn-based tactics games. You will not have access to all three after the servers go down, and Robot plans to delete all of its player data in compliance with the GDPR.

All three of these games are operating at a net loss for Robot, according to a blog post by chief executive officer Patrick Hudson. The studio wants to shift resources away from some of these older releases to focus on making something new. At the same time, the Robot team recognizes that this is disappointing for some fans.

“Making and supporting a game is a long and challenging journey,” reads Hudson’s blog. “Along the way, there are plenty of highs and plenty of lows. The communities who play our games join us on these journeys. We know this decision affects our players as much as it does us. … But we must shift our focus to future games and make our investments there.”

Robot did announce that it is working on two new games that it hopes to reveal in 2019. But it did not share any specifics. It did, however, promise to award Unchained and Hero Academy players with bonus in-game currency. It wants to ensure that anyone still showing up to play these games have a delightful experience before they potentially go away forever.

Why games shut down

Games were once products, but that isn’t the case anymore. Many are now services, and that includes the three games that Robot is shutting down. As a service, developers hope to maintain games for long periods of time in an effort to attract players (and spending) that stick around for months or even years.

But live-service games all face challenges, and Robot Entertainment’s trio of closures illustrate those difficulties.

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For Orcs Must Die: Unchained and Hero Academy 2, the issue came down to popularity.

“Orcs Must Die: Unchained and Hero Academy 2 have been unable to maintain a sufficient player base to cover the operational costs to keep the games running,” Hudson wrote.

Put simply: If you don’t have enough people, they won’t spend enough money, and the games can’t pay for themselves let alone generate a profit.

Hero Academy, meanwhile, suffered from trying to run a long-term service on a constantly changing platform like a mobile operating system. Every time Apple updates iOS, developers have to update their games to ensure they run on the latest hardware. Those updates introduce specialized costs that don’t include maintaining a server and content updates.

“The original Hero Academy has been technically obsolete for a long time now,” said Hudson. “We could not maintain the pace of operating system updates from Apple. It was actually removed from the App Store in early 2018.”

This is a reminder that running a game-as-a-service is not a magic bullet to success — and that these games are especially transient. But at the same time, I would expect Robot’s next game to run as a live service as well.