Amazon’s newest try to realize a foothold within the gaming house, the 2025 multiplayer co-op sport present King of Meat, failed. Developer Glowmade and writer Amazon Sport Studios confirmed on Monday that King of Meat can be shutting down in April and that gamers who bought the sport will obtain a full refund.
“Regardless of the creativity and innovation that Glowmade dropped at King of Meat, sadly the sport didn’t discover the viewers we had hoped for,” Amazon Sport Studios mentioned in a press release on the King of Meat web site. “Consequently, we’ve made the troublesome choice to finish our funding within the sport. King of Meat’s servers will shut on April 9, 2026. Gamers will be capable to entry and play all current content material till then. We subsequently encourage them to take pleasure in their remaining time within the sport with different contributors.”
The closure of King of Meat will come as no shock to gamers or anybody who has adopted Amazon’s gaming output over the previous decade. Though the sport acquired typically constructive critiques on Steam (primarily based on OpenCritic’s combination overview information, critics had been extra harsh), King of Meat had 320 concurrent gamers at its peak. In keeping with the precise expertise of the sport at its launch, console gamers additionally didn’t take part.
In his early impressions of King of Meat, Polygon’s Giovanni Colantonio wrote, “I jumped onto the PlayStation 5 throughout its opening weekend, and I used to be hardly ever in a position to matchmake with sufficient gamers to type a four-player crew.” “I returned on launch day and had much more hassle discovering any teammates. Issues did not look very promising on Steam both. On the time of writing, the sport has 58 critiques from its five-day early entry interval.”
King of Meat is the newest sufferer of Amazon, which final month confirmed that its once-popular MMO New World: Aeternum can be shutting down for good in 2027. Earlier than that, Amazon Sport Studios has experimented with video games like MOBA-like shooter Crucible (which got here out inside weeks of launch) and sports activities fantasy brawler Breakaway (which lasted a bit longer). Amazon additionally canceled its Lord of the Rings MMO in improvement and has largely had success publishing MMOs from different corporations, together with Smilegate’s Misplaced Ark and NCSoft’s Throne and Liberty. Amazon nonetheless has one other “Lord of the Rings” MMORPG in improvement, in addition to different untitled tasks and two Tomb Raider video games.
Glowmade and Amazon introduced King of Meat at Gamescom Opening Evening Dwell in 2024 and launched it on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X the next yr.
