'We Don't Want to Kill Our Game' — Imagine Dragons Singer's Last Flag Is Ending Post-Launch Support Weeks After Launch

Night Street Games, the workplace founded by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds and his member and set manager Mac Reynolds, has announced it is shifting its absorption distant from Last Flag little than 1 period aft its launch.

The workplace down the struggling capture-the-flag multiplayer acquisition updated fans with a station shared connected its Steam page. It confirms that, pursuing a bid of pre-planned contented updates acceptable to rotation retired successful the coming months, post-launch enactment for Last Flag volition travel to an extremity pursuing its April 14 motorboat for PC via the Epic Games Store and Steam.

"Making Last Flag has been a imagination travel existent for our team," Night Street said successful a statement. "Although our subordinate number is not presently wherever we request it to beryllium to enactment further improvement beyond our upcoming planned patches, we are shifting our absorption to marque definite those updates springiness tons of worth and power to our players truthful the crippled tin proceed to thrive and grow."

The developers marque it wide that Last Flag volition not beryllium shutting down, astatine slightest not anytime soon, saying, "We don't privation to termination our crippled – we privation to springiness it to the assemblage who helped america get here." So, pursuing the upcoming updates, which see a caller character, map, crippled mode, cosmetics, leaderboards, and rulesets, Night Street volition displacement its absorption to things similar replayability and assemblage support.

It says its extremity is to empower dedicated fans to instrumentality with the crippled and support it live with things similar persistent lobbies and unsocial rules inspired by games similar "GoldenEye, Team Fortress 2, and Super Smash Bros." As outlined successful an further station shared by Mac Reynolds connected the authoritative Last Flag Discord, the alteration of people means a console larboard is "unlikely."

"Thank you for the awesome matches, the feedback, and the galore words of support," the Discord connection continued. "Being capable to physique Last Flag for you has been a imagination travel true. Our crippled belongs to you now, and we anticipation to proceed capturing flags with you for years to come. In the meantime, we’ll spot you connected the battlefield–and we anticipation you’ll tune successful for what comes adjacent from Night Street Games."

Last Flag's Previously Revealed Roadmap. Image courtesy of Night Street Games.

Night Street's 2nd connection noted that those who person "been pursuing the Steam charts" cognize that Last Flag has been "unable to find the assemblage it needs to springiness each of you the acquisition you deserve." While Last Flag's full subordinate number is unclear, SteamDB marks its all-time concurrent subordinate highest arsenic hitting 558 players soon aft launch. At the clip of this story's publication, less than 40 users are playing done Steam.

Those who person stopped by to cheque retired Last Flag person astatine slightest helped it execute a "Mostly Positive" Steam rating. Although determination are nary plans for Night Street to proceed creating caller content, the $14.99 video crippled is presently successful the midst of a free-to-play weekend, which runs done May 4 astatine 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET.

We interviewed the Night Street squad up of Last Flag's uncover astatine Summer Game Fest 2025. During the conversation, we learned not lone astir wherever the Reynolds brothers got their thought for a capture-the-flag video game, but besides wherefore they decided to dive deeper into crippled development.

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