NECROPOLIS

A free, walkable 3D graveyard of every MMO that has shut down. In the browser, on desktop and phone.

The Necropolis from the air at night: a walled city of graves, New World's mausoleum at its centre, a castle on the ridge Enter the graveyard → Download everything (.zip) ↓ Charts ↓

In two sentences

The Necropolis is a moonlit city of 368 headstones: one for every MMO and always-online game that has closed, and open plots for the ones announced and never released. You float over it in a hot-air balloon or walk it on foot, pay your respects, light a candle, and read each game's dates, makers, peak players, how it died, an epitaph and the source it was checked against.

Fact sheet

Headstones368
Closed games305, plus a plot reserved for New World (servers off 31 Jan 2027)
Never released62, in a quarter called the Unborn
Fan revivals catalogued80: 43 running, 18 in development, 6 brought back with permission, 5 that returned and closed again, 8 stopped by the rights holder
Shortest lifeTartaros Online, 33 days
Longest lifeFederation II, about 30.7 years
Earliest closureHabitat (Lucasfilm), 1988
Worst year2016, 27 closures
Most common closing date31 March (12 games); nearly one in four closed on a month's last day
SourcesEvery stone links one: Wikipedia, Massively OP, MMORPG.com, MMOBomb, MMOs.com, Mein-MMO, studio notices and others. Data checked October 2026.
SharedCandles visitors light are counted for everyone
PlatformsDesktop browsers with WebGL; phones get a pocket version
PriceFree. No download, no account, no ads, no tracking cookies
Made bySomeone Took My Yogurt, one person. Designed and directed by hand; the code was built with Anthropic's Claude, which is why every entry carries its source.
Linkssomeonetookmyyogurt.com/graveyard · the full register (a plain, searchable list of every stone)

Things to know

Screenshots

All captured in the game engine. 1920×1080 JPG. Click to open full size. Free to use in coverage of the Necropolis.

The whole city from above, AETERNUM at the centre, the Keep on the ridge.
WildStar, 3 Jun 2014 to 28 Nov 2018, with a visitor's candle and its lifespan bar.
AETERNUM, New World's mausoleum. The queue screen reads 10,413; the souls of the city drift in.
From the balloon basket: New World's mausoleum in the fog, the Keep and the moon.
Names and dates rise off the stones as you drift: Shadowbane, Toontown Online, The Sims Online.
The Unborn: games announced and never released, cancelled in 2002.
On foot in the Old Quarter, the Keep in the mist.
The same view with the in-game photo frame (F2), as visitors share it.
Drifting over the city in the balloon.
On foot at the Plaza with the full interface.

Charts

Drawn from the register (checked October 2026). 1920×1080 PNG. Free to use in coverage; please credit "the Necropolis register". Games still running aren't counted in the lifespan charts.

Bar chart of MMO closures per year; 2016 is highest with 27
Closures per year. 2016 was the worst: 27.
Calendar heatmap of closure dates, clustered on the last day of each month
58 of 246 dated closures, nearly one in four, fell on a month's last day. The busiest date: 31 March.
Paired bars comparing years run by the publisher and by players
18 of 30 running fan revivals have now outlasted the official game.
Two lines: launches peak in 2007, closures peak in 2016
Launches peaked in 2007; closures peaked nine years later.
Histogram of years from launch to shutdown, median 3.9
Median life: 3.9 years. 50 of 179 didn't reach two.
The ten shortest-lived MMOs in days
The shortest lives: The Day Before 46 days, Ashes of Creation 51.
Closures by weekday; Thursday 52, Saturday 10
MMOs die midweek: Thursday 52, Saturday 10.
Scatter of closure date against years lived
Every grave, one dot: when it closed, and how long it lived.
Cancellations per year, 62 in total
62 MMOs cancelled before launch; 2012 was the worst year.
80 squares coloured by revival status
80 fan revivals: 43 running, 18 in development, 6 with permission, 5 closed again, 8 stopped.

Contact

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