Even after releasing alongside a devoted MrBeast Gaming video starring a number of the greatest on-line creators, King of Meat is closing down. And no, you have not by some means made your method to a information web site about native delicatessens; we’re speaking about final yr’s hopeful multiplayer hit that did not fairly stick the touchdown. No, not that one. This one was a multiplayer social gathering platformer. Sure, that is getting tough.
Developed by Glowmade and revealed by Amazon Recreation Studios, the story of King of Meat is one we have heard earlier than, and one we’ll little question hear once more. This multiplayer social gathering sport was fed into our eyeballs with loud, bombastic trailers that tried to promote us on the considered crafting painful platforming dungeons for others to sort out collectively. It was like Darkish Souls combined with Fall Guys. To me, it seemed like an fascinating design device on the very least. Did I decide it up? Properly, no. And, because it seems, not many others did, both, with the sport famously solely seeing round 300 gamers on Steam at anybody time.
Head over to the entrance web page of the King of Meat web site proper now, and you will be met with a submit that reads: “Regardless of the creativity and innovation Glowmade delivered to King of Meat, the sport has sadly not discovered the viewers we hoped for. In consequence… King of Meat’s servers will shut on April 9, 2026.”
Sure, after launching initially of October 2025, King of Meat is not any extra. Properly, it will not be as of April 9 this yr, when the servers will shut, and all these player-made ranges will disappear into the void. And except you obtain the sport earlier than phrase of its demise acquired out, it is too late to offer it a go: it is not in the stores on Steam. And whereas this cannot be time for developer Glowmade, the choice to supply “a full refund within the coming weeks from their platform supplier,” is one which must be revered.
King of Meat spun itself as a type of zany gameshow. One with enthusiastic announcers, comically violent competitors, and gremlin-like characters with makeshift weapons like a spiky dynamite hammer. A chaotic Saturday morning cartoon became a multiplayer platform sport the place you understand somebody goes to purposefully feed you to the wolves.
Nonetheless, with a line like “what’s everybody’s favourite party-platforming sport” showing seconds into its launch trailer, King of Meat was maybe just a little too assured in its premise. And as we have seen with video games like Harmony, Splitgate, and Highguard, that sort of perspective solely makes its struggles extra obvious. It is a unhappy, swift finish to a sport that held ‘largely optimistic’ critiques on Steam, however proof that even the backing of massive stars and larger manufacturers cannot assure successful sport.
