Developer Phoenix Labs has announced that the servers for its co-op RPG Dauntless will be shutting down on May 29. Taking to social media platform X to announce this, the studio has said that players will no longer be able to access Dauntless after May 29, 2025 at 11:45 PST.
No reason for the game being shut down was given, and even its Steam updates list just features a simple announcement. “Dauntless is shutting down on May 29, 2025,” posted the studio on Steam. “Dauntless will receive no additional content or updates.
The game will no longer be available to play on May 29, 2025.” The announcement comes just a month after Phoenix Labs was hit by layoffs that affected a majority of the studio.
Announcing the layoffs on LinkedIn, the studio referred to the move as “unfortunate but necessary.” These recent layoffs came almost a year after similar layoffs from back in May 2024.
At the time, the studio had also cancelled several of its unannounced projects that were in development. As for Dauntless, the shut down of its servers comes just a few months after a major overhaul the game got back in December.