The Tower of Barbs is dead. LET IT DIE's online servers got the plug pulled today after nearly a decade, and the only way to keep climbing is to fork over $19.99 for the Offline Key DLC on PS4 and Steam.

GungHo and Supertrick Games ripped out the live-service guts—real-money Death Metal, continues, storage bloat, and all that PvP nonsense—and replaced them with Kill Coin grinding and CPU stand-ins. Players who stuck around long enough can drag their save data over until November 30 at 6:59 a.m. PT, but cross-platform transfers are a no-go. Patch notes are live if you want the full autopsy.

This is what happens when a free-to-play roguelike runs out of whales: they sell you the corpse and call it mercy. Tower's still there. The madness? That's on you now.