Dungeon Full Dive’s developer is shutting down, and it is making the VR tabletop RPG toolkit’s $50 GM Version free subsequent week.
Launched in early entry in 2023 with non-compulsory PC VR help, Dungeon Full Dive developer TxK Gaming Studios confirmed that it is formally closing down. On Kickstarter and Steam, TxK states it has been unable to safe sustainable funding going ahead and that funding “is now not an possibility.”
This isn’t a call made calmly. Now we have spent the previous months exploring each potential path ahead – funding, partnerships, downsizing, alternate income fashions – however none of them have been sufficient to safe a sustainable future for the studio. We constructed Dungeon Full Dive with every little thing we had, however the actuality is that the price of persevering with as an organization has turn into too excessive.
Stating “we’re sorry for the silence” over the dearth of latest communication to its group – the final patch arrived in December 2024 – TxK confirmed this was, “at the least partially,” a acutely aware resolution as a result of it was searching for exterior funding. The studio says it was “involved that sharing our monetary difficulties too overtly may scare off potential companions,” whereas acknowledging that “a few of that silence could have felt like abandonment.”
Indicators of bother have been evident for a while with Dungeon Full Dive, and half of TxK’s employees have been beforehand laid off in February 2024 because of gross sales expectations not being met. April then noticed the studio take a distinct method by splitting the unique sport into two variations in an try to usher in extra gamers.
Dungeon Full Dive Goes Free For Gamers, $50 For GMs
Dungeon Full Dive, the D&D 5e impressed VR tabletop RPG toolkit, goes free for gamers at this time and will increase to $50 for sport masters.
The ‘Recreation Grasp Version’ beforehand price $50 and allows you to host different gamers and gives full toolkit entry, providing a vast variety of characters, maps, and miniatures. Anybody who did not purchase the unique launch or the following GM Version also can take part in these on-line multiplayer classes by means of a free ‘Participant Version’ with restricted options.
Regardless of at this time’s information, Dungeon Full Dive is not going to be disappearing. Although it will not obtain additional updates on Steam and the beforehand introduced Quest model will now not occur, the GM Version will turn into free for everybody to obtain on August 1 with all present options remaining out there.
On-line servers will stay stay “for the foreseeable future” with no plans to close them down, and TxK states “we’ll do every little thing we are able to to maintain them operating so long as potential.”
