Theorycraft announced today it is ending live service support for its Supervive game in February.
Jess Nam, executive producer for Supervive at Theorycraft, announced the decision in a post on Twitter/X.
That’s a sad outcome for a game from a company that had a great pedigree and triple-A ambitions. After four years of work and $87.5 million raised, Theorycraft Games launched the 1.0 version of Supervive in July, 2025. It’s a setback for venture-backed gaming.
The free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game was previously in early access, where it had 17,000 reviews at a 90% positive rating on Steam. But that early good start didn’t translate into permanent success.
“This wasn’t an easy decision for us to make,” Nam said. “We know Supervive has a core community that loves what it has to offer. And our team loves working on it too. It has been an enormous privilege to develop Supervive with you….From the beginning, we have always felt there was something magical in the core combat of Supervive and we’ve tried many different ways to bring that to the surface.”
But those changes have not been effective enough and bringing in new players has only gotten harder, Nam said. A huge number have engaged but most move on after their initial time with the game. Nam said it was ambitious and an expensive game to support. And so the team decided maintaining the game was not sustainable. It will ship patch 2.04 with a final bundle of completed skins, for free.
However, since the company raised a lot of money, Theorycraft is not closing. Rather, it’s going to work on a very different kind of game and it will go quiet for a while, Nam said. Players who bought items in the last few months can ask the company for refunds, she said.
“This experience has made us think about the kind of games we want to make going forward,” Nam said.
The company wants to make games in the space that live between indie and triple-A titles, she said. The post has gotten more than a million views on Twitter/X. Nam said “your passion and excitement has always been what’s kept us going.” She said the team would never have made it this far without the support of fans.
“Thank you Supervivers. Until we meet again,” Nam said.
The battle royale-meets-hero-shooter gameplay was pretty innovative and refined. The game released after a comprehensive overhaul to progression, game structure, the map, and more—redefining the experience while preserving the game’s signature lethal, free-flowing combat.
In Supervive, faced off in all-out, multi-squad teamfights; they took down boss monsters for big loot; get that win and run it back. Players could play with friends and dive into 10-team battle royales, 2-player duos, or 4v4 deathmatches.
Theorycraft Games is an independent game studio on a mission to make deep, 10,000-hour games that are just better when played with friends. Theorycraft was formed in December 2020 by a founding team that includes Joe Tung, Mike Tipul, Michael Evans, and Areeb Pirani – former studio leaders at Riot Games, Bungie, and Blizzard Entertainment.
Collectively they led the development of games such as League of Legends, Halo, Destiny, Overwatch, and Valorant.