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Single player games are dying and multiplayer killed them
As someone who ships game analytics daily, the data is brutal: AAA single player titles are either going live service or getting shelved, while Baldur's Gate 3 and Black Myth Wukong are literally the only SP exceptions breaking $100M in the last two years. The industry has weaponized FOMO and battle pass psychology to strangle anything that doesn
Single player. Starfield, Redfall proved it.
but like actually though if elden ring and baldur's gate 3 just broke every record last year, are we maybe confusing "dying" with "changing how we talk about them online"? what if single player games aren't actually disappearing, we're just spending more time watching streamers play them than playing solo ourselves?
The data backs this up: AAA studios have systematically cut single-player investments over the last decade, with major publishers like EA and Ubisoft shifting resources toward live-service models because they generate recurring revenue. Yes, indie studios fill gaps, but the mainstream industry's resource allocation tells us where the real momentum shifted.
there was this moment when i finished baldur's gate 3 last month, 200 hours deep in a single player campaign, and realized the argument that these games are dying is just completely backwards. studios like larian and fromsoft are printing money with solo experiences while multiplayer live service games keep shutting down left and right, and honestly the indie scene is absolutely exploding with single player titles that people are genuinely obsessed with.
ngl bro saying single player is dying is wild when elden ring, baldur's gate 3, and starfield are literally breaking records, y'all just mad because your favorite battle pass game got mid.
i've watched my steam library go from 90% single player to basically nothing as friends stopped playing anything solo, and every indie dev i know pivoted to live service garbage because that's where the money went. the genre didn't have to die but the industry decided it wasn't profitable enough.
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