LawBreakers game data

LawBreakers was a fast, low-gravity team shooter from Boss Key Productions, Cliff Bleszinski's studio, published by Nexon. It came out on PC and PS4 in August 2017 at $29.99 and was switched off a little over a year later, on 14 September 2018. People still search for its Steam Charts page to see how quickly it emptied. Our guide tells the full story.

Players

LawBreakers never had a large audience on Steam:

• Closed beta, 2017: a peak of about 7,500 players online at once, the highest it ever reached (Wikipedia, citing tracking site figures).
• Launch, August 2017: about 3,000 at peak on Steam, MP1st reported on 10 August 2017.
• September 2017: 48–49 players at peak on 8, 11 and 12 September, GameRevolution reported.
• January 2018: Steam showed no one playing for several hours on the evening of 10 January 2018, MP1st reported; that may have been server downtime.

Bleszinski said at the time that the PS4 version was doing better, but Sony doesn't publish player figures. Steam Charts' page for the game returned an error when we tried on 20 October 2026, so the monthly table isn't reproduced here.

How it plays

LawBreakers was an online team-based first-person shooter built around low gravity. Its setting is a future in which the Moon exploded and devastated Earth, and society rebuilt itself using the gravity anomalies left behind.

Cliff Bleszinski, the head of Boss Key, described it as a super-fast, omni-directional shooter that challenged players to get off the ground. Characters each had different movement abilities, multiple weapons and combos, and any ranged weapon could be blind-fired behind you; Bleszinski said blind-firing could even carry the slow Titan through low-gravity maps. The healer role could heal two teammates at once while firing grenades from above.

In his PlayStation.Blog tips before launch, Bleszinski described roles such as the Assassin's grapple, the Gunslinger's warp in any direction, the Vanguard's zero-gravity bubble and the Wraith's triple jump and wall jump. Matches were competitive and skill-based, and Boss Key promised no season passes or pay-to-win items.

What it cost

LawBreakers launched at $29.99 with no season pass. In June 2018 Nexon made it free on Steam, turned off in-game purchases and said it would not accept refund requests. Since the shutdown it can't be bought anywhere, and Valve's store data no longer returns the game.

Can you still play it?

Not officially. In April 2024 a fan group called the RELB Project held public playtests of unofficial servers that the original game client connects to after being patched by the group's launcher. Bleszinski shared the project on X. We haven't found a current status or a full release date for it.

Age ratings

LawBreakers was rated ESRB M (Mature 17+) for intense violence, blood and gore and strong language. We found no PEGI entry.

How we checked

Dates and player figures come from news reports at the time and Nexon's and Boss Key's statements as reported by PC Gamer. The rating is from the ESRB. We read all sources on 20 October 2026. The gameplay description is based on the developer's own posts on PlayStation.Blog, as the game is no longer sold and has no store page.

Page images: screenshots from Boss Key Productions' posts on PlayStation.Blog (22 May 2017 and 28 July 2017) and frames from the official LawBreakers launch trailer on PlayStation's YouTube channel, cropped to remove a hashtag overlay. © Nexon. All trademarks belong to their owners. GamesChart is not endorsed by or affiliated with Nexon or Boss Key Productions.