The End of Closers World

Hello everyone, this is YunokiRoom.

Earlier this morning, it has come to my attention that the global servers of Closers, aka Closers World, announced on their Facebook page and website that they'll be shutting down on June 24th at 8:00 AM UTC+3.

As far as I'm concerned, I first became aware of the game's existence in March 2019, when the game's NA servers were published by a now-defunct game publisher called En Masse, which ceased operations back in August 2020 and transferred the publishing rights to its original developers, who merged the data from En Masse's NA servers and relaunched the game worldwide under the name of Closers World in November 2020.

At first, the game seemed to be thriving or so I thought for years to come, until very recently, when I came across their Facebook story, announcing the shutdown of said servers.

Turns out, this isn't the end of Closers as a whole, because I found out from a Facebook fanpage that the game's still around through its official servers in TW, JP, CN and KR, alongside private servers.

In short, Closers isn't going anywhere in East Asia nor in private servers, as it's just the global servers that are going down on June 24th, and rest assured, the fanfiction about Seha and his friends will be posted on this blog after this post is made.

That's all I have to say about the current situation with Closers.

UPDATE (as of June 26th, 2026):

Hi, it has come to my attention that Closers World has ceased operations as of this Wednesday morning, with the official and Steam servers along with their customer service ceasing operations throughout this week. 

However, their website is still up for an another 3 days before they'll be closing it by Monday at 10:00 AM UTC+3, so as a result, I managed to save everything from their website and saved a snapshot of it to the Internet Archive so that memories of Closers World won't be erased forever.

Additionally, here's one of the final screenshots of this server:

That's all for now.

UPDATE (as of July 12th, 2026):

2 weeks after Closers World was shutdown, there was a message on their Discord server that a new team under Papaya Play (the western publisher behind the completely unrelated games Black Shot and La Tale) had taken over the game's international servers after said shutdown.

Right now, they are now planning to relaunch said international servers thanks to player feedback. 

As for what happened to the game after the shutdown? Meanwhile in the KR server, they just recently dropped a new character named Mois, who was written as a former divine entity-turned-otaku with an unfortunate past leading up to her current situation.

UPDATE (as of July 19th, 2026):

7 days after taking over the game's international servers, the new team made a FAQ that the players have asked them on their own Discord server and here's a summary of said FAQ from what I've seen so far because I ain't reading allat:

From what I've seen so far, their version of the international servers will be completely different from the Closers World version due to the fact that the data from that version since 2017 won't be carried over to this version due to problems with it, meaning that their players will start over from scratch just like what happened to SoulWorker's NA servers back in April 2021.

Additionally, the new publishing team has made promises to reduce the game's inconveniences and be honest with their players going forward, but as of right now, they haven't announced the launch date of their own version of the game and they'll be announcing it in the future.

UPDATE (as of July 29th, 2026):

10 days after the last update, after taking over Closers World, the new publisher reactivated their original Facebook page to open pre-registrations for their version of the game, and lo and behold, they added the latest content from the KR server, but that doesn't change the fact that almost 9 years of data and progress were wiped with the developer's consent so I made an another post regarding this situation.

In the meantime, given the current direction that the game's international servers are heading under Papaya Play, international players are better off with private servers.

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