Book of Travels from Might and Delight goes offline in July but you'll still be able to play alone

Book of Travels had an interesting idea as a slower, more exploration focused online RPG that didn't hold your hand but it never really took off. Coming from Might and Delight who also made Twinkleby, the Shelter series and Meadow it's going to be having the servers shut down at the end of July.

Unlike certain other game shut-downs, this will not be the end of it. They're transitioning the game into a fully offline experience with modding enabled. They're also dropping the price from 29.99 USD to 4.99 USD

Here's what they said:

Dear Travellers,

Today, we want to give you an update on what's going on with Book of Travels and what our plans are moving forward.

In short, Book of Travels will transition to an offline, single-player experience with servers being shut down on July 31st, 2026. Additionally, modding will be permitted.

We know that we have not communicated anything in a while and that this has, rightfully so, caused frustration. It has taken significant time to weigh all our options for the project in order to decide on the best way forward. With the track record this project has, we've been mindful to not once again promise anything that we cannot live up to. We are very sorry for the lack of communication along the way and for not being able to deliver on what we had set out to do from the beginning.

Book of Travels is fantastic and wonderful in many ways, but as you know, there have been major obstacles and problems that we have encountered in trying to bring it to life. We took on more than we could handle. We could not deliver what we wanted to, and what we had promised. We realized along the way that we did not have the capacity required for this type of project. Even so, we believed we could make it work, and we wanted this project to succeed just as much as any of you. It was truly the project of a lifetime for us. However, the very foundation upon which the game was built proved unsustainable. No matter how many approaches we tried, workarounds we implemented, or patches we created we were never really able to solve the core issues.

We have spent the past year looking at all kinds of various options to fix the game and have ultimately concluded that this is the only way for us as a studio to sustain it. With this update, we can preserve Book of Travels in a way that still allows its world to live on.