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Dan Reynolds’ Last Flag Shelves Console Plans After Weak PC Launch
Dan Reynolds and Night Street Games have canceled Last Flag’s console release after low player numbers on PC, shifting the project toward patches and community-led replay features instead of major new development.
Last Flag, the online multiplayer game co-created by Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds, is no longer moving ahead with its planned console release after a slow start on PC.
Announced last year and launched last month on Steam and the Epic Games Store, Last Flag was built by Night Street Games, the studio Reynolds founded with his brother Mac Reynolds. The game leans on a classic capture-the-flag format, with Reynolds also contributing original music alongside Imagine Dragons guitarist Wayne Sermon, songwriter JT Daly, and singer Marcos Issaak.
Even with promotion across Imagine Dragons’ social channels, the game struggled to hold players. According to SteamDB figures cited this week, its peak concurrent player count reached 558, while recent daily highs dropped to 48, with single-digit users online at certain points. In response, Night Street has pulled back on future expansion plans, including the console version, and said development will be limited to near-term patches.
In a message shared on the game’s official Discord and reposted by Knoebel on X, Mac Reynolds acknowledged the numbers directly, saying the game had not found the audience needed to support the experience the team had planned. He added that the studio is “unlikely” to support additional development beyond upcoming fixes.
At the same time, the studio says it is not shutting the game down. Mac Reynolds told players, “Last Flag isn’t going anywhere,” framing the next phase as community-led rather than content-heavy. A separate Steam update said the team will prioritize replayability tools, persistent lobbies, and custom rule sets influenced by older multiplayer staples including GoldenEye, Team Fortress 2, and Super Smash Bros.
The shift effectively moves Last Flag from a traditional live-service roadmap to a maintenance-and-community model less than a month after launch, a familiar trajectory for smaller multiplayer projects in an overcrowded market where visibility rarely guarantees retention.
Elsewhere in shooter news, the official Call of Duty X account confirmed that 2026’s Call of Duty installment will skip PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, ending a 13-year run of cross-generation support for the franchise.
