Night Street Games has halted plans for major content updates to its multiplayer shooter Last Flag, just three weeks after launch, due to insufficient player numbers. The studio, founded by Imagine Dragons singer Dan Reynolds and his brother Mac, confirmed it will deliver only planned patches before shifting focus. The game will remain online with community features.
Last Flag, a capture-the-flag style online multiplayer shooter, launched on Steam on April 14, 2026. Developed by Night Street Games—co-founded in 2020 by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds and his brother Mac Reynolds, the band's manager—the game peaked at under 600 concurrent players on SteamDB, despite promotion via the band's social media accounts with millions of followers. Mac Reynolds expressed hope last month that players would try the game, as he told Bloomberg in an interview, but it failed to attract a sustainable audience. Night Street Games confirmed on May 1 that financial constraints make additional development, including console ports, unlikely beyond upcoming patches, according to a Steam blog post and Mac's Discord message shared via Twitter by Knoebel. Mac stated on the official Discord server, “If you’ve been following the Steam charts, you already know that Last Flag has been unable to find the audience it needs to give all of you the experience you deserve.” The studio emphasized that Last Flag will not shut down. Mac added, “Last Flag isn’t going anywhere,” promising a new mode, character, map, cosmetics, and custom lobbies with alternate rules to enhance community control. He concluded, “Our game belongs to you now, and we hope to continue capturing flags with you for years to come.” This outcome echoes recent struggles of other live-service shooters like Concord amid dominance by titles such as Fortnite and Call of Duty Warzone.