Publisher Zynga and co-developers NaturalMotion Games and BossAlien announced they’re shutting down Star Wars: Hunters, their free-to-play third person arena combat game.
Star Wars: Hunters will shut down just over a year from its release in 2024 later this year, on October 1st. The final content update for the game will come next month, on April 15th.
A reasoning behind the game being shut down so soon after its big global debut wasn’t given, however it’s likely it didn’t get enough consistent players to justify keeping it actively developed and online – a growing problem with live service games.
Here’s a timeline of the game being sunset and eventually fully shut down:
- March 25th, 2025 – Season 5 will be extended by three weeks. We will re-run events and shop bundles from the Season, and the Ranked Season will also be extended, giving players more time to hit Kyber 1 rank.
- April 15th, 2025 – Final content update will be released for free and in-game purchases will be disabled across all platforms. New Support Hunter, Tuya, will join the battle as part of the final update. Tuya will be available and playable for all users immediately at no cost, along with a slate of additional in-game content. We will continue to run a final Ranked Mode leaderboard for players to compete in and run all battlefields and game modes in rotation.
- October 1st, 2025 – Online servers will officially shut down, and Star Wars: Hunters will no longer be playable beyond this point.
Star Wars: Hunters has been available for Nintendo Switch (via the eShop), iOS (via the App Store), and Android (via Google Play) since June of 2024, and later got ported to PC.
