Paragon
Epic opened Paragon to everyone, accepted purchases for two years and closed it while it was still officially a beta.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Limited Appearance
- Peak stage
- limited public access
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A third-person multiplayer online battle arena game developed and operated by Epic Games for PlayStation 4 and Windows.
Paragon moved from paid Early Access into a free open beta available to ordinary players. It had live servers, regular updates and in-game purchases, but Epic never declared a finished general release.
Existence timeline
Epic publicly introduces Paragon and its third-person take on the MOBA format.
Founder packs allow paying players into the developing game.
Access becomes free and open on PlayStation 4 and PC.
Epic apologises, offers refunds and says the game lacks a sustainable path.
Epic releases the first large collection of Paragon art and environment assets for Unreal Engine developers.
The Paragon servers close before the game reaches a finished release.
Epic completes a release programme covering more than US$17 million of Paragon content.
Why it ended
Epic announced the closure in January 2018, saying it could not find a sustainable path to retaining enough players. The company offered full refunds and closed the servers on 26 April.
Last confirmed trace
Epic released more than US$17 million of Paragon characters, environments, animation and effects for Unreal Engine projects, enabling independent successors to reuse parts of its visual world.
What it left behind
The asset release gave a cancelled public beta an unusual afterlife in games such as Predecessor and in thousands of Unreal Engine experiments.
How we classified it
Anyone could play the open beta, but Epic still described the product as beta software and never promoted it to a finished general release.
Paid Early Access followed by a free open beta is the 98-point limited-public-access stage.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.