Riot Games will end active development on 2XKO at the end of 2026, a little over a year after the 2v2 fighter entered Early Access and just seven months after it launched on consoles. The announcement stresses that servers will remain online beyond 2026 and the game will stay playable on all platforms, but the studio says “we haven’t seen enough players stick with the game” to reach a path toward sustainability. Riot is also refunding all money spent in 2XKO on or before August 20 and unlocking all champions for every player.
Today’s announcement follows Riot’s decision in February to reduce the size of the 2XKO team, which came less than a month after the console launch. In my post on that announcement, I noted these messages are usually sugarcoated, and that one was no different, with Riot claiming a smaller, focused team would put the game on a more sustainable path forward. This time, the company is blunter about the situation, saying 2XKO costs substantially more to operate than it brings in, and that engagement stayed relatively flat even through the releases of Akali, Senna, Thresh, and The Climb PVE mode.
The wind-down starts today with KO Points purchases being disabled, and refunds for PC players are expected to be mostly distributed within the next two weeks, with all of them finished by November. Patch 1.3.1 arrives September 8 with Lux, one of the two champions revealed back in June, and it makes sweeping changes to the game’s structure. Battle Passes, KO Points, Champion Tokens, seasons, and events are all being removed, along with Ranked lobbies, though casual matches will still be matchmade by skill. A 2XKO Ultimate Bundle packaging nearly all cosmetics will be available for $39.99, while avatar items, stages, and player profile items become unlockable with Credits, which are having their 12,000 cap removed.
Samira, the game’s final champion, follows in October’s patch 1.3.3, which Riot says will be the last major content patch, with an optional December patch reserved for bug fixes. The 2026 Competitive Series is unchanged through the end of the year, including prizing for Major and Challenger events, with the final Competitive Series event taking place in November. After that, 2XKO will remain free to download on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and PC, and offline play is unaffected.
2XKO was one of our most anticipated games of 2025, where we said the concept of a 2v2 team fighter set in the League of Legends universe was very interesting to us. As for what comes next, Riot says it’s heading back into the R&D lab to take time to learn before its next swing at a new genre.
