Concord Lives Again As Fan-Made Project Unveils Gameplay Test Videos

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The troubled live-service shooter Concord — which cost millions and years of development before flopping at launch and being canceled by Sony weeks later — has been partly brought back to life by a small group of dedicated fans.

According to reporting from The Game Post, three community developers managed a partial resurrection: a user called Red reverse-engineered the client, open_wizard rebuilt the backend API, and a programmer known as gwog helped stitch the pieces together. The team posted videos showing playable matches, though they caution the project remains a work-in-progress with bugs.

The trio successfully demonstrated loading into the game, selecting characters, and running a full Clash Point match on their custom servers.

"The project is still WIP, it's playable, but buggy," Red wrote. "Once our servers are fully set up, we'll begin doing some private playtesting."

Concord originally launched in 2024 to very low player counts — roughly 25,000 copies sold — and its failure led Sony to close developer Firewalk Studios soon after. Sony later reflected publicly on the missteps, saying the game’s collapse revealed gaps in oversight and prompting the company to recommit to learning from the experience.

The Concord episode has also entered wider conversations about game preservation. UK lawmakers cited the title during a House of Commons debate about consumer protections for games that go offline, and while the session discussed campaigns like the Stop Killing Games movement, MPs ultimately declined to push for laws that would force publishers to keep live services running.

For now, the fan-run servers offer a rare second life for a high-profile title that might otherwise have vanished entirely — a reminder that, in the age of online-only games, small communities can sometimes do what big companies no longer will.

3 min read · Nov 2025