Towerborne Ditches Online, Proves Even Games Prefer Alone Time
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Towerborne, an action RPG by Stoic and Xbox Game Studios, launches February 26, 2026.
- ā¢Originally planned as a free-to-play always-online game, it will now be paid and playable offline.
- ā¢CEO Trisha Stouffer said the change took a year of deep technical rebuilding to remove constant connectivity.
Towerborne, a side-scrolling action RPG from Stoic and published by Xbox Game Studios, was supposed to live its best always-online, free-to-play life. Nope. Launching February 26th, 2026, itās suddenly a paid game you can play offline. Trisha Stouffer, Stoic's CEO, spilled the beans in an Xbox Wire blog post that this U-turn required a year of 'deep structural rebuilding' to ditch the constant connectivity nightmare. So instead of infinite server checks and plugins, you get online co-op optional and owning the full game permanently. Because why not prove that connectivity is just overhead people forget to pay the electric bill for?
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Towerborne planned to be free and online but switched to paid offline after a year rebuilding. Guess even video games get tired of Zoom calls.
When your gameās always-online plan dies, and it becomes an offline paid retreat, consider it social distancing from servers.
Stoic took a whole year off to prove what? That games can ghost their internet dates and still expect cash?
Source: Theverge | Published: 1/9/2026 | Author: Jay Peters
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