Riot took to its socials this morning to announce that it’d be ending active development on its free-to-play fighting title set within the League of Legends universe, 2XKO, in December this year.
The decision comes less than twelve months after the game’s official release in January, earlier this year.
“Over the last few months, we’ve been monitoring 2XKO’s trajectory closely, and what we’ve seen is painting a clear, consistent picture,” Riot said in a statement posted to their website.
“While a lot of you jumped in to try the game and there’s an incredible community that plays every day, we haven’t seen enough players stick with the game to get to a path toward sustainability.”
Riot also noted that the game’s final content drop would come in October, and that all of the game’s champions would be unlocked, cosmetics would be bundled, and that it’d be refunding all money spent on 2XKO on or before August 20.
Servers for the game will remain online beyond 2026, and offline play is also going to continue unaffected.
“Our goal now is to do right by the players who have invested in us so far and want to continue playing 2XKO, as well as the Rioters who have poured everything into delivering on this dream,” the statement concludes.
