EA’s Anthem Shutting Down Entirely, Will Be Unplayable Starting Next Year
EA has announced that Anthem servers will be sunset on January 12, 2026, effectively making the game unplayable.
“Anthem was designed to be an online-only title so once the servers go offline, the game will no longer be playable,” EA said in an update. “If you previously purchased Anthem, the game can still be downloaded from a digital library and played until January 12, 2026.”
Anthem will also be removed from the EA Play playlist on August 15, 2025, and EA says that the sunsetting of the game has not led to any layoffs at developer BioWare. Anthem joins a growing number of live-service games that have had the plug pulled on them. Other high-profile games that faced a short shelf-life included Marvel’s Avengers, Battleborn, and Super Bomberman R, and in an extreme example, Sony’s Concord, which was pulled after a disastrous two weeks.
