RIP Raini: Lords of Light — Another Web3 Card Game Goes to Valhalla

[encrypted]

Welp, mark your calendars — July 21 is the day Raini: The Lords of Light officially joins the Great Crypto Game Graveyard of 2025.

Another one bites the blockchain dust.

The NFT card battler that once dared to blend fantasy tropes with crypto memes — like cards featuring Doge, Satoshi, and even SBF the Fallen King — is now shutting down. Pour one out for the degens who believed.

2 million RST tokens (~$3,340 LOL) will be handed out as parting gifts for June and July before the lights go out. Hope your gas fees don’t eat it all.

Quick recap:

Lords of Light was:

Basically Hearthstone, but make it Web3.

Launched on Ethereum, migrated to Avalanche, lived on Epic Games Store.

Leaned hard into crypto in-jokes and P2E mechanics.

Issued NFTs and a token (RST) that now trades at $0.0016 and is down 99% from its 2024 high. Oof.

The devs at Raini Studios say the game was a "huge success" (over $1M paid out to players), but player numbers have dipped so low that keeping the game alive is burning money and "hurting the ecosystem." Translation: it costs too much to keep the servers running while bots farm dust.

Next Up?

The studio’s moving on to new games like Lucha Throwdown and Uncaged: The Jon Jones Brawler (yep, that Jon Jones).

They're pivoting RST to a fully deflationary model with token burns, transaction taxes, and a solemn promise of "a brighter future."

CEO Sam Moody said it best:

“Bittersweet moment as we kill our flagship game, but hey, we’ve got Jon Jones punching people on deck, so we’re cool.”

Another Web3 game fades away, but at least this one had memes, chaos, and a full circle moment of crypto irony. Let us know what NFTs you’re taking to the afterlife.

So… anyone actually play Lords of Light? Or just bought cards and hoped for the best?