Krafton is shutting down PUBG: Blindspot just two months after Early Access launch

Krafton is ending support for PUBG: Blindspot, the free-to-play PC spinoff that entered Early Access in January. The shutdown comes only about two months after launch.

According to a Steam post from Arc Team’s Sequoia Yang, the studio decided it could no longer “sustainably provide the level of experience” it originally planned for the game during Early Access. Blindspot was pitched as a top-down tactical shooter tied to the PUBG universe, with monthly updates and regular community feedback shaping development.

The game never found much of an audience on Steam. It hit a peak of 3,251 concurrent players shortly after release, based on data from SteamDB, and had dropped to only a few hundred players in recent weeks.

The quick shutdown lines up with Krafton’s broader approach to smaller-scale projects. The company has previously said it wants teams to use Early Access and limited launches to test whether a game has enough traction before committing more resources. In that sense, Blindspot looks like a project that simply didn’t make the cut.

Krafton is still pushing ahead with other PUBG-related games, including PUBG: Black Budget, an extraction shooter announced in 2022, and PUBG: New State on mobile. The company has also talked about expanding PUBG beyond battle royale through user-created content and other long-term projects tied to the main Battlegrounds platform.

For players, the main takeaway is simple: PUBG: Blindspot is on its way out, and its Early Access run is ending far sooner than expected.