Konami's Online Murder Mystery Game Being Removed From Sale Just Ten Months After Launch

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Konami's online murder mystery game Crimesight is being removed from sale just ten months after it launched, and shut down for good in May.

As reported by PC Gamer, Konami quietly updated the game's Steam page to announce that sales of the game would be ending on February 27 and it would be made unplayable on May 1.

Crimesight will therefore essentially cease to exist, due to what Konami called "various circumstances", but perhaps most likely as a result of a player-base that dwindled almost immediately.

Despite a generally positive reception, Steam DB data shows just 572 players online at its launch on April 14 last year, though this fell to just a few dozen a month later and has ranged from ten to 20 players since December.

"Online battles will not be available after the service ends," the Steam post reads. "Also, the game itself won’t be able to play. Although the time left until the end of the service is limited, we hope you will enjoy it to the end."

Crimesight puts teams of players against each other in futuristic London, with one team looking to sneakily assassinate a target NPC and the other looking to find out the culprits.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and acting UK news editor. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.