Amazon Delists New World Aeternum and Confirms Full Shutdown for January 31, 2027
Amazon Game Studios has taken the final, irreversible step for New World Aeternum, pulling the MMORPG from sale and putting a hard end date on the entire experience. As of January 15, 2026, the game has been delisted from the Steam store page, removing the ability for new players to purchase it. At the same time, Amazon confirmed that New World Aeternum will go offline across all platforms on January 31, 2027, meaning the servers will be permanently shut down and the game will become unplayable once that date arrives.
The official messaging is framed as transparency about what comes next, but the roadmap is essentially a controlled wind down. In the blog post, Amazon states plainly that the title will be taken offline on January 31, 2027, while also confirming the delisting date of January 15, 2026. Players who already own the game can continue playing through 2026, and there will be a final month of access after December 31, 2026, before the shutdown hits at the end of January 2027.
For anyone still actively invested in the economy and cosmetics, the monetization timeline is also now locked. Amazon will continue to allow microtransaction purchases until July 20, 2026, after which players will no longer be able to purchase Marks of Fortune or anything else in game. Amazon also makes it explicit that refunds will not be available for Marks of Fortune purchases, which is likely to be the most controversial part of this end of life plan for late cycle spenders.
New World: Aeternum will officially be taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027.
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Operationally, the game is not being abandoned overnight. Amazon says it will keep monitoring servers and stability and will continue to ship bug fixes for the remainder of the game’s lifespan. That is the bare minimum to protect the final year of play, but it also confirms what players already inferred when new content was halted: the priority is now maintenance, not expansion.
From an industry perspective, this is a case study in how quickly a major publisher can move from player reactivation to end of life once the content pipeline stops. New World launched as a rare example of a non traditional games giant landing a real hit with an internally built title, and while it had ups and downs over its lifecycle, the final outcome is still a tough one for players who treated Aeternum like a long term home game.
Are you planning to log back in for a final year tour of Aeternum, or does the delisting and hard shutdown date make you drop the game immediately?
