The developer and its publisher Electronic Arts has said that following “careful consideration”, it will be taking the servers for its 2019 online action-RPG offline on January, 12 2026, making the game unplayable after then.

In a statement published to its website, BioWare wrote: “We have an important update to share regarding Anthem.

“After careful consideration, we will be sunsetting Anthem on January 12, 2026. This means that the game will still be playable online for the next 180+ days.

“As of today, you can no longer purchase in-game premium currency, but you can still use your remaining balance until the servers go offline.

“We deeply appreciate your dedication, passion and support over the years and we’d like to thank you for that.”

The studio added Anthem was “designed to be an online-only title, so once the servers go offline, the game will no longer be playable”.

Anthem will also be removed from the EA Play playlist on August 15, 2025.

BioWare also said Anthem will no longer be purchasable.

Despite the game’s cancellation, BioWare insisted “the sunsetting of Anthem has not led to any layoffs” at the studio.

Following its rocky release in 2019, BioWare said it would overhaul the game, which would be a “substantial reinvention” of Anthem.

However, a year later, development on the update - which was previously known as Anthem Next and Anthem 2.0 - stopped, and Anthem’s director Jonathan Warner announced he was exiting BioWare in 2021 and was “moving on to do new things”.