The Cycle: Frontier
Yager rebuilt The Cycle as a tense extraction shooter where every alien storm threatened a player's haul, but cheating, churn and finances ended Fortuna III.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released free-to-play multiplayer extraction shooter developed by Yager Development.
Prospectors landed on an alien planet, gathered resources, fought creatures and rival teams, and tried to evacuate with their equipment.
Existence timeline
Yager opens an earlier competitive version.
The project returns as an extraction shooter.
Fortuna III opens through Steam and Epic.
Maps, progression and anti-cheat systems are revised.
Yager explains the service is financially unsustainable.
The game leaves general public access.
Why it ended
Yager closed the game in September 2023 after concluding it was not financially viable despite design and anti-cheat changes.
Last confirmed trace
Official announcements, trailers, gameplay recordings and community preservation retain the evolving maps and final season.
What it left behind
Its rapid rise and fall became an industry example of the severe retention and security demands facing extraction live services.
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.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.