Officially GoneGAMES

Landmark

The building tool created to help shape EverQuest Next outlived that cancelled MMO, reached formal release, and then survived only eight more months.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2016-06—2017-02
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A voxel-building online game developed and published by Daybreak Game Company.

Players claimed land, built complex structures and experimented with construction technology originally tied to EverQuest Next.

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Existence timeline

EverQuest Next Landmark announced

The construction tool is introduced alongside a larger MMO.

Paid early access

Founders enter the evolving building environment.

EverQuest Next cancelled

Landmark continues as a separate product.

Formal release

The standalone game reaches general availability.

Servers close

Landmark ends less than a year after launch.

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Why it ended

Daybreak closed the servers in February 2017 after deciding that continued operation was unsustainable.

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Last confirmed trace

Screenshots, videos, exported designs and retained company code preserve a creative world whose player structures are no longer accessible.
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What it left behind

Landmark became both the surviving fragment of one cancelled project and a formally released product with its own short afterlife.

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How we classified it

The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.

Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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