Sony is officially shutting down Destruction AllStars
by Stefan L · tsaSony has announced the shutdown of Destruction AllStars servers later this year, having now removed the game and its microtransaction currency from sale on the PlayStation Store.
From 25th November 2026, server support will be removed, and while the Arcade Mode single player challenges will remain playable, other solo play functionality will be affected.
Obviously multiplayer will also be inaccessible, but the thing is that Sony states , “Due to ongoing technical issues, multiplayer services for Destruction AllStars on PlayStation®5 consoles shall remain offline and are no longer available.”
While there was no formal acknowledgement of this in the past, Destruction AllStars multiplayer has been offline since 2024 (per Push Square). This feels similar to the enforced shutdown of LittleBigPlanet games, where bad actors were targeting the server infrastructure in a way that was not cost effective for Sony and MediaMolecule to address.
It’s a shame to see another game going offline, though Destruction AllStars was not a massive success for the PS5. Announced during the console’s reveal event, the vibrant vehicular combat game was intended to arrive at the console’s launch, but launch plans shifted and pivoted to the start of 2021 and for the game to be bundled into PlayStation Plus (prior to the service’s 2022 relaunch with PS Plus Extra’s game library). A decent effort was put in for a 2022 update, though the game had already faded from the spotlight and developer Lucid Games was later acquired by Tencent brand Lightspeed Studios. Sony, meanwhile, was determined to make live service a thing, overlooking the difficulties they’d already faced in launching a live service game to announce a dozen such projects were in the works throughout the company – a decision that has haunted the PS5 release schedule ever since.
We said in our Destruction AllStars review, “The car combat genre has long been out of fashion and still has a way to go if it wants to take us back to its glory days of the 1990s. Destruction AllStars is a mostly satisfying modernisation that has some neat ideas and looks fantastic, though ultimately spins its tyres on repetitive rival-wrecking gameplay and a lack of truly worthwhile content at launch.”