Gran Saga will soon celebrate its premature end. This is particularly noteworthy because the anime-MMORPG was only released on November 8, 2024, after many years of development.
What is known about the end? On the official website gransaga.com, the developers from Npixel announced with a heavy heart that they had decided to shut down the service for Gran Saga on April 30, 2025.
The only reason given is that it has been difficult to provide a continuous, stable service. The website and servers will go offline on April 30, and the official forum is expected to follow on June 2.
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Quick end after long development
What do I need to know about Gran Saga? MeinMMO first reported on the anime MMORPG in September 2020. The project was in development for more than four years and is said to have had a budget of 25 million US dollars. The release followed on November 8, 2024, for PC and mobile devices.
On Steam, Gran Saga has only 267 reviews, with 54 percent being positive. In the Google Play Store, the 5,000 reviews are more forgiving, with a rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars.
The developers promised a high-quality JRPG experience with engaging stories, voiced cutscenes, and an action-packed combat system. Characters are supposed to be unlockable without a gacha system. You can play solo or join a guild and visit dungeons. There is cross-play between platforms.
What are players saying?
- DanVanDam criticizes in his review on Steam: “Cash-grab progression for whales. Keeps crashing.”
- Sealed writes on Steam: “Actually not poorly executed, just at a certain level, about when all your chars are level 50+, you can’t progress further in the story because the story bosses are well above your level.”
- Shadow explains on Steam: “This game is not for everyone, as it is a mobile MMO targeting people who play mobile games, and like every mobile game these days, it has a gacha system, autoplay, and a crazy amount of microtransactions… But I haven’t spent a single cent on it and have managed just fine, so at least after 24 hours it hasn’t been necessary.”
Gran Saga was not on my list of online role-playing games that I thought might end up on the MMO graveyard this year. To find out which games I think are not doing so well, read here: Which MMOs are dying in 2025? I’m worried about 5 games
