Pudgy Penguins Halts Development of Web3 Game ‘Pudgy Party’ to Focus on Pudgy World

Pudgy Party, a mobile game based on the global non-fungible token project Pudgy Penguins, will gradually wind down service and halt further development. The team plans to focus instead on Pudgy World, another metaverse gaming project.

Pudgy Penguins said in an official statement on June 12 that it had decided to begin phasing out Pudgy Party effective immediately and stop additional development.

Pudgy Party showed strong early momentum. Shortly after launch, it ranked No. 1 in Apple’s App Store download chart and surpassed 1 million cumulative downloads. It also built a solid daily active user community and helped introduce the Pudgy Penguins intellectual property to a broader audience.

Despite those results, the development team chose to shut down the service because of the rapid growth of its next title, Pudgy World. Pudgy Penguins said it had confirmed that Pudgy World was on track to surpass Pudgy Party. It described the new title as a product on a completely different level in terms of scalability, storytelling potential and its ability to bring users into the Pudgy Penguins universe.

The company added that Pudgy World has all the elements needed to become its flagship gaming product offering a native Web3 experience. It said it will work to make Pudgy World the main gateway for users to experience the Pudgy Penguins story in the easiest and most entertaining way through gaming.