Triad Wars, the multiplayer follow-up to Sleeping Dogs, was canceled

United Front Games pulled the plug on Triad Wars, the free-to-play online follow-up to Sleeping Dogs, announcing that the beta’s servers would shut down on January 20.

Players who had bought gold — the virtual currency purchased with real money — during the final month were offered refunds through the studio’s customer care team.

Triad Wars was pitched as a PC-only online multiplayer take on the Sleeping Dogs universe: the same Hong Kong criminal underworld, but built around climbing the triad ladder and building your own organized-crime empire alongside and against other players. It never made it out of beta, and the studio itself shut down not long after.

The upside is that the universe’s single-player high point survived it all: Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition remains one of the best open-world games of its generation.