At the end of January 2025, the Ukrainian Extraction shooter Level Zero: Extraction received an update to version 1.0 and left Steam's Early Access. As it turned out, this was the last update for the game, which is being discontinued. The project's community manager wrote about this on the game's Steam page.
The developers would like to thank the players for their support and patience. We're not sure about the latter, as Level Zero: Extraction has an overall Steam rating of 57/100 (2266 reviews), and the rating for the last 30 days is a crushing 23/100.
According to the developers, the actual performance of Level Zero: Extraction was below expectations, so the relatively small team can no longer support the project. The game's servers will remain online for now. Doghowl Studio has plans to develop a new multiplayer game.
As a reminder, Level Zero started as an asymmetric survival horror game and was redesigned into an Extraction shooter in early 2024. Despite the fact that the project performed very well during the Steam New Year's Eve Festival, getting into the top 100 most desired Steam games (350 thousand additions to the Wish List), after its release in Early Access on August 13, 2024, the project's performance began to decline. At the start, the peak online population of 2,601 players at the beginning of September 2024 was only 150-200 people. In January 2025, the online network game Level Zero: Extraction had only 5-30 players.
It seems that there is some kind of spell hanging over Ukrainian online shooters - most of these domestic projects lost players very quickly after a good start. Let's mention the ambitious and actually very good Shatterline, Survarium and Fear the Wolves by Vostok Games/VG Entertainment, CrimeCraft by Vogster Entertainment. Only Warface by Crytek Kiev was relatively lucky, but now this game belongs to the Russians from MY.GAMES. And the results of the NFT shooter Off The Grid, which was released only in the Epic Games Store and on consoles, are still unknown, and statistics for which are not available. Besides, Off The Grid also has a Russian trace.
Against this backdrop, Doghowl's statement about the desire to create a new multiplayer game looks strange. Maybe they should pay attention to single-player games, as Ukrainians are much better at them?