Ubisoft Abandons Hyper Scape Less Than 2 Years After Launch

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Just two years after the release of battle royale game Hyper Scape, Ubisoft has announced that it is shutting the game down in April of 2022. It’s not the first game to try to ride the wave of the current trend and fail—Battleborn comes to mind—but this shutdown is a pretty quick turnaround. It can be difficult to seize momentum in a space already full of popular games, and it seems that this was one battle royale that just didn’t quite cut it.

Ubisoft revealed Hyper Scape only a short time ago, in the summer of 2020. At the time, it appeared to be a basic battle royale with a bit of a twist, eschewing custom loadouts in favor of gamers picking up everything as the game progressed, as well as allowing players to upgrade their guns by finding the same gun again. Combined with many different abilities running the gamut from useful to silly, Hyper Scape offered enough to feel like more than just a clone of other popular battle royale games like Apex Legends or Call of Duty: Warzone. However, after initially high player numbers driven by collaborations with content creators, interest in Hyper Scape quickly waned, while its competitors continued to enjoy the lion’s share of gamer interest.

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Now, a Ubisoft blog post has announced that Hyper Scape will officially shut down in April, less than two years after the game’s launch. The post is brief, only saying that the developers will take what they’ve learned from the game and incorporate that into future projects, as well as thanking what community the game did have. There’s no mention of any events or rewards for those who play through to the end, as sometimes happens when games shut down. All told, it’s a sudden,