Free-to-play kart racer Stampede: Racing Royale will go offline later this summer, with its final season of content to drop for the remaining fans that are playing.
The final season, Season 1 (yep), will add a new Season Pass, Xbox Achievements, new tracks, bigger party size and more.
Servers will close down in three months time, with no specified date announced yet.
Stampede: Racing Royale is developed by Sumo Leamington, published by Secret Mode. The game went on a period of Early Access via Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview. The game eventually shed the Steam Early Access tag for its PC release last year, though the game remained in the Xbox Game Preview Program, and will likely remain so until servers are shut down.
The reason for the shutdown was attributed to “due to a variety of unexpected events”. Secret Mode was previously the indie publishing label under Sumo Digital (which have investments via Tencent). But Secret Mode was recently acquired by a private equity company.
Stampede: Racing Royale is now another one of many creative, ambitious racing games that couldn’t find an audience. Based on SteamDB’s concurrent users’ chart, the game only had double-digit numbers in the past three months. This does not account players on Xbox and PC Microsoft Store, but that’s not a healthy number for a game that touts 60-player races as a feature.
Stampede: Racing Royale is still available for now on PC (Steam, Microsoft Store) and Xbox.