The story mode has also been discontinued
Following the October release of Them’s Fightin’ Herds on the Nintendo Switch, the team behind this My Little Pony-inspired fighting game has now announced that active development will come to an end. No new content will be released after the release of the new DLC fighters Nidra and Baihe (Version 6.0), including the story mode, which has now been cancelled:
“Story Mode has always been an ambitious feature and one we truly desired to implement. We know how much our fans have been looking forward to Story Mode chapters, and we hope you understand how much we looked forward to working on and releasing them.
“We are looking for opportunities to release content that has already been produced for Chapter 2, starting with a new stage, “Restricted Section”. This stage will be a part of the version 6.0 update alongside Nidra and Baihe.”
Despite the fact that active development is coming to an end, the team will apparently still be able to release small patches to address any game-breaking bugs, but “no new content will be produced” after the final DLC update.
This announcement has, predictably, not gone down well with the game’s community, with the title now being review-bombed on Steam. Them’s Fightin’ Herds first appeared in early access in 2018, followed by a Windows PC release in 2020.