7 Live-Service Games With the Record for Fastest Server Close

Game Live Services – Currently Live-service games are very rampant. Game developers are of course interested in developing Live-Service games because of their sustainability which can attract huge profits.

However, not all Live-Service games run smoothly. Starting from server problems, boring gameplay, to publication contracts, sometimes it becomes a problem for the game and causes the game to close its server.

In this article, Gamebrott will share 7 Live-Service Games with the fastest server closing record. Are there any games that only last a few days, Brott? Come on, let’s discuss it straight away!

7 Live-Service Games With the Record for Fastest Server Close

It seems that the games in this article are games that have very bad luck. Here are 7 Live-Service Games with the Fastest Server Close Record according to Gamebrott.

1. Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 – 120 Days

In general, live-service games are released first and then announce server closure if their game is less popular or there are other problems. But, this game is different.

Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 is a mobile rhythm game which is a sequel to the first game which was released around 11 years ago. Like most Japanese games in general, this game also has separate Japanese and Global servers.

And this time we will talk about the Global server which announced the release and closing of the server simultaneously. Yes, good and bad news in the same Twitter tweet.

In a tweet on its official account, Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 announced that they will release their game in February 2024 and will close the game server on May 31, 2024, exactly after 4 months of running the game.

This announcement occurred because the Global version experienced delays in release and was postponed for several months and also for the Japanese server, the game only lasted 11 months.

The reason? This sequel game comes without significant changes and is considered the same as its predecessor game, but all progress from the previous game cannot be carried over to the newest game. The first game was also closed for the sake of this sequel, so many fans protested and decided not to play the sequel.

In this way, it is only natural that this game was forced to announce that they would continue to release the global version but could not keep the game released for longer due to game ownership rights issues where the initial server had already closed.

2. Highguard – 45 Days

The first game in this article is of course a game that is very “popular” among gamers, namely Highguard, which will be released on January 26 2026. This game, which was predicted by Geoff Keighley at The Game Awards and which he liked, turned out not to be what gamers expected.

With gameplay without a clear direction where players have to mine, loot, fight for the sword used to break into the base and ending with “bomb mission” gameplay, Highguard is considered not very interesting and boring.

Not to mention that the character designs are not very iconic and one of the characters even looks like Ken from Street Fighter and the map size is too big for a 3v3 game, making players reluctant to play it again.

The development team for this game, namely Wildlight Entertainment, has tried to provide appropriate updates input given by the players but the game is still unable to bring back the players.

And on March 4 2026, this game announced the closure of its servers which will close on March 12 2026 and the Highguard game will only last for 45 days. It is not surprising that this game is nicknamed Concord 2 by many gamers.

3. The Day Before – 45 Days

The next game is a game that is very famous for its problems, namely The Day Before. This game is also predicted to be the best Survival game thanks to the gameplay trailer shared by the developer, namely Fntastic.

However, when the game was released, many things did not match the trailer that was shared and gamers thought this game was a game hoax or fraud. This is because different from Highguard which is a Free-to-Play game, The Day Before is a paid game.

Gamers then flocked to make refunds, causing Steam to make an exception to their 14 day/2 hour gameplay refund policy and provide refunds to gamers.

This game was released on December 8 2023 and after 4 days of the game’s release, Fntastic finally announced that they would close the game server on January 22 2024 where this game only lasted 45 days.

4. Radical Heights – 34 days

If you are a fan of Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, maybe you will be very familiar with the name Cliff Bleszinkski. This developer is the brain behind these popular games.

However, this does not mean that the game’s success will carry over to the next game. In 2014, he opened his own studio called Boss Key Productions and released Lawbreakers and Radical Heights.

Radical Heights is a Battle-Royale game with an 80’s theme that is ready to become a challenger in this genre to compete with PUBG and Fortnite. But unfortunately, these 2 giants could not be overthrown and this game had to end very quickly.

Players who tried this game during Early Access said that this game was too stiff and had various bugs so it looked like a game that was not ready for release. However, the creator admitted that the game was not popular because the previous game he developed, namely Lawbreakers, was also considered a failure, so gamers were hesitant to try the game.

Early Access opened on April 10, 2018. After 1 month, the game announced server closure on May 12, 2018 with server closure on May 18, 2018.

5. The Cube, Save Us – 21 Days

Maybe many gamers haven’t heard of this game. The Cube, Saves Us is an Extraction-Action game which was released on March 18 2026. This game was developed by XL Games, a studio from South Korea which is also the developer of the MMORPG ArcheAge franchise.

According to its genre, this game presents Extraction and Action gameplay where players will enter a cube consisting of various rooms where players will fight monsters and other players to collect items and escape from the cube.

Unfortunately, there are already a lot of Extraction games and are dominated by Extraction Shooters such as Tarkov and ARC Raiders. Developing the genre by adding Action can actually be an attraction, but a game that looks stiff actually backfires for the development team.

The lack of promotion for this game is also the main factor why the game is not well known. And finally, after 3 weeks of the game’s release, the development team decided to close this game server.

6. Harmony – 14 Days

It wouldn’t be right to make this list without including the “BEST” game in Live-Service history, namely Concord. This game is indeed the face of how a game with a large budget can fail so quickly.

Concord is a Hero Shooter game that is late in entering this genre because when it was released on August 23 2024, this genre was already dominated by games like Overwatch.

And also this game uses a paid model for a live-service game, which limits many players who want to try it, where other Hero Shooter games are Free-To-Play games.

The very generic character design without any distinctive characteristics made it less popular with gamers, so after 14 days of release, this game finally closed its doors on September 6 2024. Because of the failure of this game, a genre called “Concord-Like” was born, which is a term for uninteresting or bad live-service games and was immediately branded as the successor to Concord.

7. Destruction 2 – 8 Days

So far, many gamers think that Concord and The Day Before hold the record for games with the biggest server closures. And the game with the fastest closing record is actually The Culling 2.

The sequel game to the first The Culling was released on July 10 2018. However, this game received heavy criticism from fans of the first game, causing the game to close so quickly.

The developer of this game admits that The Culling 2 is not the game that players asked for and hoped for as a successor to the previous game. And the development team is trying to withdraw the game and issue refunds to all players who have purchased the game.

How could it not be, a game that initially had a unique concept, namely combining survival mode and Battle Royale in its first series, turned into a generic Battle Royale that really wants to follow PUBG in all its aspects. Abandoning characteristics for short profits certainly makes fans feel betrayed by this game.

As a result of this greed, Xaviant, which is the game development team, announced that they were closing the game server after 8 days of the game The Culling 2 being released. What a sad fate for a Live-Service game.

So, those are the 7 Live-Service Games with the Record for Fastest Server Closing. Have you had a chance to play these games, Brott? What do you think, is it natural for this game to close so quickly, or is it a shame?

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