Summary
- Hood: Outlaws and Legends will shut down on February 18, 2025, disappointing fans of this PvPvE heist game.
- The game faced issues with server problems, balance, and low player counts despite an initial positive reception.
- Sumo Digital, the developer, also worked on other games but faced layoffs earlier this year, impacting multiple offices.
Hood: Outlaws and Legends, a multiplayer-only action game based on the legend of Robin Hood, will shut down on February 18, 2025, the title's development team has announced. While initially praised by many for its unique premise, Hood: Outlaws and Legends was troubled by server issues, poor balancing, and low player counts.
Developed by Sumo Digital, the studio that also worked on last year's video game adaptation of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hood: Outlaws and Legends is a third-person PvPvE heist game that tasks two opposing teams with finding and securing treasure. The Unreal Engine 4-powered title was able to attract around 11,500 concurrent players on Steam at its peak, according to data provided by analytics tracker SteamDB, but the game was never able to maintain a large and healthy community following its May 2021 release. More than three years after it came out, Hood: Outlaws and Legends' end of service has been announced, causing fans to look back on their experiences with what was envisioned to be a dark rendition of Robin Hood's story.
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In a recent statement, the Hood: Outlaws and Legends team revealed that the game will shut down on February 18, 2025. Players will be unable to access the title and any additional content such as DLCs past that date. Like many modern live-service games, Hood: Outlaws and Legends had microtransactions in the form of battle passes and skin packs. Digital and physical retail sales will cease on October 16, and those who purchased the game 14 days before its shutdown was announced will be offered refunds until sales end.
Hood: Outlaws and Legends End of Service Date
- End of sales: October 16, 2024
- Shutdown: February 18, 2025
Hood: Outlaws and Legends players shared their experiences with the game after its end of service date was revealed. Replying to the dev team's post, some claimed that the title had a lot of potential, while others said they never regretted buying the game even though it had its fair share of flaws. Requests for Hood: Outlaws and Legends to receive an offline version so that it would not completely die when servers close down frequently popped up as well. There have been past instances of fans being able to revive dead games on their own, with one example being the initiative that resulted in the preservation of eight Japan-only Mega Man mobile games.
In June, Sumo Digital was hit with layoffs that affected the company's offices in Canada, the Czech Republic, India, Poland, and the United Kingdom. The Hood: Outlaws and Legends developer was also behind Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Crackdown 3, and LittleBigPlanet 3, among many other games.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 65 /100 Critics Rec: 23%
- Released
- May 10, 2021
- ESRB
- m
- Developer(s)
- Sumo Digital
- Publisher(s)
- Focus Home Interactive
WHERE TO PLAY
We are all Outlaws… but some of us will become Legends.
Faced with a merciless, unchecked state, rebels and rogues battle to claim their place among legends. To win influence with an oppressed people, rival gangs compete in daring heists to hit the wealthy where it hurts. Folk hero or gold-hungry outlaw, only the best will escape with hard-earned riches.
Two teams of 4 players compete to execute the perfect heist, in medieval environments patrolled by deadly AI guards. With the unique skills and mystical abilities of each character, moving in stealth to steal treasures unseen or dominating through loud and brutal combat.
Blood will be spilled. Riches will be stolen. Legends will be reborn.
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 4
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation (Original), PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
- Genre(s)
- Action
