Crash Bandicoot: On the Run (Free) is shutting down less than two years after it hit iOS and Android worldwide. An official announcement posted on Facebook reveals that Crash Bandicoot: On the Run servers will be taken down on February 16th, 2023. In app purchases have been turned off as of yesterday with the game currently not available to download on iOS and Android for new customers. Crash Bandicoot: On the Run is an online only game so this server shutdown means the game will no longer be playable in any form after February 16th, 2023 unless King ports it to something else.
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run launched as a free to play entry in the beloved Crash Bandicoot series. Details on prior seasons and updates are here. It even featured a collaboration with Spyro. Head over to our forum thread for the game here to see what players thought of the game. Did you play and enjoy Crash Bandicoot: On the Run on mobile over the last year or so?
I played the beta pretty extensively before release and could see that the game didn't really have any way to bring in money. Most of the comments and complains on the beta's discord were asking for things to be "more F2P friendly" which... as we all know, doesn't bode well for the life of the game.
The music and graphics were great, the game just got remarkably stale after reaching a certain point. The gameplay loop wasn't satisfying enough: Play a level to collect ingredients > Craft the ingredients into other items(While waiting increasingly long periods for crafting to be completed) > Use the newly made items to "unlock" new levels > repeat.