Foamstars Support Ends in January as Square Enix Drops Soapy Live Service Shooter | Push Square

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Square Enix is essentially ending support for Foamstars, the quirky live service shooter that launched for PS5 and PS4 in February.

The game's final season — called 'The Party Goes On!' — begins on the 13th December, and runs through to the 17th January. After that, there'll be no more seasonal updates — although Foamstars itself will remain online, so it's not being shut down completely.

For what it's worth, previous season passes will be made available again so that players can go back and unlock stuff that they might have missed.

Foamstars isn't quite dead and buried, then, but this kind of announcement has been coming. The game went free-to-play back in October — no doubt in a bid to renew its appeal — but it's clear that the change in business model hasn't done enough to keep support ticking.

And it's pretty good fun

Have you tried Foamstars? Did you see this coming? Stop blowing bubbles in the comments section below.

Robert (or Rob if you're lazy) is an assistant editor of Push Square, and has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Persona, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Trails, Tales — he's played 'em all. A little too much, some might say.

I played a few matches back when it first released and was almost immediately bored of it. I'm surprised it took as long as it did to shut down.

I liked Foamstars well enough to say it was one of the better live service games I’ve played this year, but that’s also not saying much (also, I liked Concord better than Foamstars, so there’s that too). Got to be real: outside GTA, Fortnite, Minecraft, CoD, and the gatchas, I don’t think many of these live service games have a shelf life anymore. It seems that these games need an authentic and unique hook now to have any type of shot, and even then, it’s not a guarantee. It certainly feels like, not only are