Sugartown to shut down all services, D20 Labs says

Sugartown, the consumer web3 game on Abstract, is shutting down. In a July 8 statement posted to @visitsugartown, the team said it had "decided to start the shut down all services for Sugartown."

The project is run by D20 Labs, the studio that acquired Sugartown and its assets from Zynga in 2024. In the announcement, D20 Labs said it had fully developed several additional games but lost access to a technical dependency through a partner in "the fall of Q4" and could not find a viable path to launch them. It tied the decision to a continued decline in demand for crypto and blockchain gaming.

The team said it intends to release the full Sugartown IP — including unreleased games — to the community "free and permanent," move the Oras collection toward cc0, and keep existing NFTs in holders' wallets, with a follow-up to be "finalized with counsel" in the coming weeks.

The announcement drew a mixed response. Some holders posted messages of support, while others in the replies questioned how funds raised during the project's mint were used. Those are unverified community comments. D20 Labs pre-empted the question in its statement, writing that the cofounders took "$1 annual salaries" and that Cores-mint proceeds and founder contributions "went into building the Sugartown ecosystem."