Officially GoneGAMES

LawBreakers

A polished gravity-defying shooter reached full release, then lost both its studio and its servers thirteen months later.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2017—2018
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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 commercial online arena shooter developed by Boss Key Productions and published by Nexon for Windows and PlayStation 4.

LawBreakers built its combat around altered gravity, rapid movement and role-based characters. Reviews were broadly positive, but its paid launch struggled to attract enough players in a crowded multiplayer market.

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Existence timeline

Project announced

Boss Key introduces the gravity-focused shooter under the working name BlueStreak.

Public testing

Alpha and beta sessions admit ordinary players before release.

Full release

LawBreakers goes on sale for Windows and PlayStation 4.

Sustainability warning

Boss Key says the existing player base cannot support the game as planned.

Studio closes

Boss Key Productions ends operations.

Final free period

The game becomes free while a fixed server shutdown is announced.

Servers close

The official online game becomes unavailable.

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Why it ended

Boss Key said the audience was too small to sustain continued support. After the studio closed, LawBreakers became free to play for its final months and its servers ended on September 14, 2018.

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Last confirmed trace

Purchased clients, trailers, reviews and captured matches remain, while the official network required for normal play is gone.
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What it left behind

Its collapse became an example of how a competently made online game can still disappear when network population and commercial timing fail together.

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How we classified it

LawBreakers was sold as a finished public game before its mandatory service was permanently shut down.

Normal commercial release 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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