LawBreakers is staging an unofficial comeback, five years after it (and its makers) shut down

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Five years after LawBreakers shut down, we're getting to play the gravity-defying multiplayer FPS again thanks to fans. LawBreakers was the first game from Boss Key Productions, a studio co-founded by Gears Of Wars lead designer Cliff Bleszinski, and it had delightful ultraviolence beneath its uninspiring genric look. Alas, it did not sell well. Boss Key closed less than a year after launch, and the game soon followed. But after years of work, a group of fans this weekend successfully ran the first public test for a workaround to play the game again. While there's no clear launch plan yet, more playtesting will follow.

LawBreakers launched in August 2017, at which time our LawBreakers review said "its zero gravity segments offer something that no other FPS can, and everywhere else it's a solid, polished shooter." But LawBreakers did not sell well and chasing the nascent battle royale craze with Radical Heights did not pan out either, so the studio closed in May 2018. After that, LawBreakers publishers Nexon made the game free to give it a good send-off before shutting down the servers in September 2018. And since 2020, a few fans have been plotting to bring it back.

This weekend, the unofficial RELB Project ran the first public tests for their own launcher which enables an unofficial revival. An FAQ on its Discord server explains this technical trickery is "done by creating 'fake' servers that the original game client uses". And it got a lot of attention thanks to CliffyB pointing it out:

Somehow LawBreakers is coming back, see below!!!
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If you're interested in this weekend's public test or future tests, join the RELB discord server to learn how to get set up and keep up with the current news! https://t.co/1COV57FZQ5

And it worked. Some classes were disabled, it only had one mode, and it had some technical hiccups, but people could play LawBreakers again. "We're aware of all the issues regarding hitreg and such and are working on fixing/improving them (but keep in