Yield Guild Games Sunsets YGG Play, Retiring LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper

Yield Guild Games is sunsetting YGG Play, the web3 game-publishing arm behind LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper, the company said in a post published July 6, 2026. The transition will be "complete by August 1," per the announcement, which also retires the YGGPlay.fun site, its Launchpad, and Community Questing at community.yggplay.fun. YGG said it is "parting ways with 35 people across our different functions."

LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper, both live on Abstract, "will also be retired," YGG wrote in the announcement. Two other YGG Play titles, Gigachadbat and Ragnarok Breaker, will keep running "as normal, with live services fully maintained by their respective studios," the company said — they are not part of the shutdown.

YGG Play was the company's casual web3 game-publishing division, and LOL Land was its highest-profile release. YGG attributed the closure to the fallout from October 10, 2025, when a macroeconomic shock triggered "the largest liquidation in crypto history, wiping out over $19 billion" in leveraged positions within 24 hours, the company said. "YGG Play simply cannot be commercially sustainable in this climate," the announcement reads. Co-founder Gabby Dizon put it more directly: "Sunsetting YGG Play is a heavy decision, but it is a market decision, not a product decision," he said, according to Decrypt and BlockchainGamerBiz.

YGG said it will now "channel its resources into the AI data economy," building what it calls a B2B pipeline supplying gaming datasets to AI companies — a pivot Decrypt and BlockchainGamerBiz both tied to a broader pullback across web3 game publishers since the October crash.

For players, the operative date is August 1, when LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper stop running on Abstract. Neither YGG's announcement nor the outside coverage reviewed here addresses what happens to in-progress rewards, points, or in-game currency in either game before then — an open question for anyone still active in the two titles.