Publisher Eight Studio has announced the end of service for Grimlight, stating financial difficulties as the main reason for the company’s inability to maintain the game and shut down its servers after almost 2 years of service.

Despite this, the developers of Grimlight have announced their plans to convert the game into an offline build alongside the addition of the final story chapter for the game by the third quarter of the year after its end of service.

To ease with the transition to convert the game into a standalone version, certain social features such as PvP and friends have already been disabled, although the game can still be installed and played.

Below is the statement made on the game’s official Discord server:

Hello Dreamers,

We’re reaching out with an important update on Grimlight’s journey. We believe that transparency is key, and after some hard discussions with our team, we wanted to share our current situation.

Despite our passion and the exciting features we’ve been working on, financial realities have led us to a difficult decision. Continuing our service of Grimlight is no longer viable and efforts to reverse this trend since the middle of last year have not been successful. Over the last few months we have tried to seek alternatives solutions to turn this around but things have not yielded the success we had hoped.

Yet, we believe in a farewell that honors our shared adventures. As gamers ourselves, we want to make things right and convert the game into a standalone offline build. We know how frustrating it is when a game you have committed time and money to is shut down and you lose everything which is not something we want to do.

Going forward, our goal is to complete the final story for the game and convert it to a standalone build so that Dreamers can keep their progress and continue their adventures within the world of Phantasia. Unfortunately, during this process, social systems such as friend and PvP features will be disabled to ensure sustainability without ongoing server costs when this process is finalized.

The transition will require significant time for restructuring on our backend and we anticipate it to be finalized later this year (likely in Q3 of this year). We will keep you updated once the final date is more clear based on our progress with this transition..

We ask for your patience and understanding during this period as our team will be working on this process while fulfilling our other obligations to maintain operations. All purchases will directly support our devs, artists and server costs as we make this transition. Thank you for your time in the world of Phantasia. Your support has meant the world to us.

Thank you. White Rabbit

Grimlight

Released on 7 July 2022, Grimlight is a strategic role-playing game with a tactical formation style combat system. Players take on the role of the Dreamer, who can banish the darkness of Phantasia by calling upon heroes of legend through fragments of their past memories.

Since its initial launch, that game had amassed a total revenue of over $1 million USD through Google Play throughout its 1.5 year lifespan.

Its highest peak in revenue for the game was recorded at over $400 thousand USD, during the game’s launch in July 2022.