Dino-FPS ‘Second Extinction’ will be delisted due to lack of success

Second Extinction is a co-op focused dinosaur-shooting FPS which first released in Early Access back in October of 2020. Unfortunately, despite the team’s best efforts, the game seemingly failed to meet sales expectations – leading to the title being set to permanently go offline.

Making the announcement via their blog, the team at Systemic Reaction released a post titled ‘A FINAL UPDATE ON SECOND EXTINCTION’ in which they revealed the unfortunate news, saying:

“We write to you today with a mix of emotions as we share important news about our future plans for the game. After thoughtful consideration and exploration of our best course of action, we have made the difficult decision to end active development of Second Extinction.”

Explaining their reasons behind this decision, they continued, “While Second Extinction is well-loved among our players and the gaming community, it regrettably did not achieve the success we hoped it would. Additionally, some unforeseen show-stopping issues prevented us from leaving Early Access and Game Preview.”

Additionally, the team revealed that “we initially planned to launch the 1.0 version late last year, but the discovery of a few critical issues forced us to pull back close to the release. Unfortunately, it became clear that our small team lacked the resources necessary to hit our quality targets and exit Early Access and Game Preview, and the investment needed to do so was too large for us to bear.”

With all this in mind, the title is being removed from store fronts, and while you can still  play the game for now if you already own it, Second Extinction will eventually go offline at some point next year – though no exact date has been provided yet.

The one silver lining in all of this is that the team assured fans that “there are no layoffs associated with this decision. The passion, talent, and skill of the team who worked on Second Extinction is being put to good use on other projects across Avalanche Studios Group.”

It is a shame to see that the team’s passions and ideas ultimately did not pan out the way they had hoped, but it is already encouraging to see that Systemic Reaction will continue to operate and work on new ideas. Hopefully their next project hits the way they need it to.

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