The Culling 2 retired from the shops after its disastrous launch

"One thing that has emerged very clearly for us is that The Culling 2 was not a game you had claimed and that it was not a worthy successor to The Culling "Josh Van Veld, director of Xaviant's operations, repentedly explained in a video posted on YouTube.

The game, which offers 50 players the chance to compete at a same game, counted only 249 players connected at the height of its launch, according to data from Steam Charts. At the time of writing, no player was online in the game.

Xaviant will now concentrate his efforts on The Culling released in early March 2016.

"Our Goal Immediate for The Culling is to take the version of October 2017 currently online and edit it so that all its aspects match the original version [de mars 2016] said Josh Van Veld. This will be our platform in the future.

This homecoming will be offered free to players, and those who bought The Culling 2 will be reimbursed.

A pioneer of the genre

The Culling had experienced some success in 2016, during his early access period, during which Xaviant continued to work on the game pending its official release. The game then proposed to 16 players to compete on the same card until only one survivor remains.

He is among the pioneers of the genre "royal battle" which also includes very popular Fortnite: Battle Royale and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG). Unlike the latter, The Culling however, emphasized clash fighting.

However, its popularity died down quickly when it was officially released in October 2017, after the designers greatly modified the original version. Xaviant stopped updating the game two months later, which shocked the remaining players.

Last June, the studio announced to the surprise of all that it would launch shortly The Culling 2 . It only took a month between this announcement and the release of the game, July 10. This sequel, however, contains very few elements that made the success of the first game and was described by some Internet users clone of PUBG