Destruction AllStars, one of the PlayStation 5’s first exclusives, goes dark on November 25, when Sony cuts all server support for a game it stopped selling six months ago.
That cutoff is 16 days away. Sony’s published service statement says the game and its Destruction Points currency came off the PlayStation Store on May 26, 2026, at 14:00 UTC.
Owners still have a window. In its statement, PlayStation writes: “Single-player modes will remain accessible to existing users until Wednesday 25th November, 2026 at 15:00 UTC.” Leftover Destruction Points can be spent in those modes until the same moment.
What survives after November 25
Only part of the game makes it past the cutoff. PlayStation says Arcade Mode’s single-player challenges stay playable for returning players, with a warning that “functionality and player experience may be impacted.” Everything else goes offline.
Multiplayer is already gone. The statement says: “Due to ongoing technical issues, multiplayer services for Destruction AllStars on PlayStation 5 shall remain offline and are no longer available.” Those servers have been down since 2024, according to a report published when the shutdown was announced. For a game built around online car combat, that leaves a small remainder.
The cutoff lands at these local times:
- New York: 10 a.m. Eastern
- Los Angeles: 7 a.m. Pacific
- London: 3 p.m. GMT
- Toronto: 10 a.m. Eastern
Those conversions use November clocks, after US and UK daylight saving ended. Anyone holding unspent points should treat that hour as final, since the statement offers no route to convert them.
A short life for a launch-window game
Developer Lucid Games and publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment released Destruction AllStars on February 2, 2021, after a delay from its planned slot beside the PS5 at launch in November 2020. From that release date to the shutdown is five years, nine months and 23 days.
The pricing tells its own story. Sony said in September 2020 that the game would cost $69.99. By the time it arrived, it had become a free PlayStation Plus title for its first two months, and the paid digital version that followed on April 6, 2021, cost $19.99. That is a $50 drop before a single paying customer bought it.
Reception was mixed. Critics liked the driving and the combat loop, and they criticized the thin content and aggressive microtransactions.
A live-service game depends on a publisher’s servers for matchmaking, progress and purchases, so when those servers close, the product a buyer paid for changes shape or stops working. Sony’s own page of decommissioned titles shows how common this has become. LittleBigPlanet 3’s PS4 servers have stayed offline since January 2024, and that game’s campaign, like Destruction AllStars’ Arcade Mode, is what remains.
PlayStation closes its notice with a line of thanks and a reminder that “Your statutory rights (if any) are not affected,” directing affected players to PlayStation Support. After 15:00 UTC on November 25, Arcade Mode is the last piece of Destruction AllStars left running on a PS5.
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