Nexon has announced that it will shut down Dynasty Warriors M on February 20, 2025. The end of service for the mobile game will happen simultaneously worldwide, including in Japan.
Dynasty Warriors M is Nexon’s second attempt at a mobile game based on Koei Tecmo’s hack-and-slash action game series. While the first title Dynasty Warriors Unleashed was based on Dynasty Warriors 8, the company used Dynasty Warriors 9 as the basis for Dynasty Warriors M.
Following the initial reveal in late October 2023, Nexon launched Dynasty Warriors M worldwide a month later on November 22, 2023. With the mobile game slated to sunset in February 2025, it will last for only around a year and three months. That lifespan would be much shorter than Dynasty Warriors Unleashed, which lasted three years globally from 2017 to 2020 and four years in Japan from 2018 to 2022.
Dynasty Warriors M is not the only recent mobile game in the franchise to be shut down. The Chinese-made Dynasty Warriors 7-based title Dynasty Warriors Overlords had also disappeared in July 2024.
Koei Tecmo’s self-developed Dynasty Warriors 9-based entry, launched exclusively in Japan in March 2021, will thus become the only known mobile game still alive as of the end of 2024. The Dynasty Warriors series producer Akihiro Suzuki is still managing the mobile game, as Tomohiko Sho takes up the producer spot for the new console entry Dynasty Warriors Origins, which is slated for release on the PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC on January 17, 2025.
Dynasty Warriors M is available worldwide on Android and iOS mobile devices until February 20, 2025.
Published: Dec 20, 2024 09:00 am