Ship of Heroes will be closing on September 22, 2026, the 1 year anniversary of its launch, when the servers go offline. After this date, the game will no longer be accessible. We are grateful to our friendly community who guided development by answering over 220 polls, providing feedback during a dozen free public events and feature tests, and on our website forums.

Together, we achieved our goal of launching the game we set out to build: an MMORPG with a new story, a positive tone and friendly community, and unusual fun mechanics that allow players to create unique characters with unique progressions through the game.

In the 9 years from announcement to launch, we built a full fledge MMO, with:

  • Character creator
  • An original story
  • Missions that scale for teams of up to 10 players
  • Crafting
  • Trading and an auction house
  • Player housing
  • Raids
  • Seasonal content

Delivering this scope with such a tiny team of professional developers is nothing short of a tour de force. We are very proud of what our team accomplished and thank all team members, past and present, for the enthusiastic and valuable contributions that made this possible.

Since launch, we have introduced:

  • seasonal content for Halloween and Christmas
  • a new crafting line for gadgetry and more crafting options in general
  • new dancing emotes
  • many QoL additions and of course, we have continued with our policy of smashing all bugs we can reproduce.

Our internal development milestones included the launch of a big new UGC feature in February 2026 that had been functional since 2023 and was polished late last year. This feature allows players to create missions using the assets of the game and make them available to other players. The player created missions use the same rewards structure as regular missions and automatically scale for number of players and difficulty as well.

This new feature and 40 new missions have passed a closed beta with flying colors.

This mission creation tool allows devs to create content 10 to 20 times faster, allowing us to publish more new content frequently while remaining lean.

However, we have decided to not publish this content and to stop development of the game. The shrinking of our team that resulted from the launch has slowed progress to a crawl. We will be shutting down the servers on September 22, 2026 after which Ship of Heroes will no longer be available.