ChronoForge

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1. 24 November 2021

   The game's X account is created

   The earliest dated public trace found. The founder later described the project as four years in the making.

2. January 2022

   First NFT collection sold, under the PxQuest name

   5,000 NFTs at 0.125 ETH each, reported as bringing in about $2 million.

3. October 2023

   First public playtest

4. 1 March 2024

   The team announces its RIFT token plan

   The announcement set out a token sale; its original post is retained below. Round terms are in the funding table.

   🔥We are proud to announce the RIFT Foundation has closed its strategic investment round raising $3million USD to support the ChronoForge ecosystem!

5. January 2025

   Migration to Abstract

6. July 2025

   Founders begin paying for development themselves

   By then 80% of staff had been laid off since January, and the remaining team worked without pay.

7. 10 September 2025

   Early access opens

   The dungeon-crawling game became playable in early access. GAMES.GG’s closure report says this followed a team reduction and suspended blockchain rewards.

8. 9 December 2025

   Closure announced

   Read the full post

   Dear Gamers, Against many headwinds, we have kept the project running, including with personal finances from the founders since July and long hours with a team reduced by 80%. We launched our game in Early Access on September 10th and despite bugs earnt a 4.2 rating on Epic Games, higher than our much better funded peers. We continued to improve the game with patches and features despite no marketing budget, below sustainment-revenue, loss of codevelopers and terrible web3 gaming sentiment (bar the recent exception of the very well funded Fableborne launch). Unfortunately we have been unable to find sufficient funding or an acquirer to continue on. After discussions with the Rift Foundation, we have accepted the painful reality that we are unable to sustain the game or token utilities and ChronoForge will be shutting down services by 30 December, 2025. Thank you for letting us attempt this ambitious vision and for your patience as we tried every path to keep it alive. A detailed post mortem can be found in our community discord.

9. 30 December 2025

   All services end

   The announced end date. In-game purchases stayed open until then; blockchain rewards had already been suspended.

Ran out of money

The team announced on 9 December 2025 that it would shut down all services by 30 December, saying it had found neither enough funding nor an acquirer. It said the founders had paid for development from their own pockets since July with a team cut by 80%, and that after talks with the Rift Foundation it could no longer sustain the game or its token utilities. The planned game token was never launched.

13 sources behind this page.

1. 1ChronoForge Secures $3M in Strategic Funding · ChainPlay
2. 2ChronoForge to shut down amid funding collapse and Web3 gaming turmoil · Cointelegraph · Dec 2025
3. 3ChronoForge Confirms Closure · GAM3S.GG
4. 4ChronoForge Raises $3M for Action RPG · GAM3S.GG · Mar 2024
5. 5ChronoForge shutting down on December 30 · GAMES.GG
6. 6ChronoForge to Shut Down on Dec 30 After Funding Collapse · PlayToEarn · Dec 2025
7. 7@playchronoforge post announcing the RIFT strategic round · twitterapi.io · Mar 2024
8. 8Posts by @playchronoforge, 9-12 December 2025 · twitterapi.io · Dec 2025
9. 9X account profile: @playchronoforge · twitterapi.io
10. 10Web3 Gaming Platform ChronoForge Shuts Down · Unchained · Dec 2025

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