On January 27th 2022, Ubisoft announced that they had "made the difficult decision to end development of Hyper Scape and shut the game down as of April 28th."

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/hyper-scape/news-updates/37U6BBTVWevDWEZHY48x3g/the-future-of-hyper-scape

Hyper Scape was one of the first games I played on my Twitch stream, so it will always hold a special place in my streaming career.

When it came out, it was Battle Royale only, and ultra fast-paced. This seemed to get a mixed reception, and interest dwindled. But then the game brought out a Team Deathmatch (TDM) mode, and it was a literal gamechanger.

I had to take some time away from Neo Arcadia, but after recently returning to playing Hyper Scape on stream, I've had a fair few people asking if the game was new, and getting really excited about it, with only good things to say about it.

I've found it a really approachable and playable FPS game, whereas other games in the genre set a high barrier to entry, for occasional players like me. Hyper Scape has the right balance of challenge and opportunity.

If it can't be saved as-is, it'd be great, as some have suggested, to have some sort of ability to set up our own private servers, and keep the game alive in our own bubbles, somehow.