Kritika Online is continuing to be kicked around by its publishers: We’re sad to report that the latest version of the game is now being sunsetted.
As MMO Fallout first noticed, Valofe announced on Steam (and apparently on Discord) today that the game has been yanked from Steam downloading concurrent with Valofe’s plans to sunset it.
“With great regret, we announce that the operation of KRITIKA: ZERO will officially cease, and all game servers will be shut down on Thursday, August 7, 2025, 12:00 (tentative),” the studio says. “This decision is also a difficult one for our team. Here, we would like to extend our deepest apologies to all players who love KRITIKA: ZERO.”
The actual sunset is on August 7th, though apparently in-game item sales, at least through Steam, have been canceled as of today. That’s unlikely to affect many gamers, however; the game’s Steam peak was 355 concurrent players during its launch there last August. We don’t know how many people played through Valofe’s own platform, where the game has run since January 2024.
By our count, this was at least the fourth – fifth? – version of the game opened in the west: En Masse’s version shut down in 2019, ALLM’s reboot shuttered in 2022, and the Global version lingering in maintenance mode off Steam. MMO Fallout’s Connor says says technically Com2US NFT-studded version is still technically up. Whee.
