{"id":73254,"date":"2025-08-17T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73254\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:32:08","slug":"gunghos-switch-free-to-play-ninjala-looks-to-be-winding-down-major-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/73254\/","title":{"rendered":"GungHo&#8217;s Switch Free-To-Play &#8216;Ninjala&#8217; Looks To Be Winding Down Major Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Ninjala\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8f1f51dc20ebf\/ninjala.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ninjala.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" alt=\"Ninjala\"\/><\/a>Image: GungHo Online Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>GungHo Online&#8217;s free-to-play multiplayer title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ninjala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ninjala<\/a> is now in its fifth year, and it looks like the development team will be winding down major support after 21 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>In a new update, bumping the game up to Version 21.0, an <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ninjalathegame.com\/en\/news\/info\/season21.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official announcement<\/a> mentions how the team has decided Season 21 and the latest Ninjala Pass will &#8220;run indefinitely&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for playing Ninjala. The Ninjala Team has an announcement regarding the duration of Season 21.<\/p>\n<p>In order to provide all Ninjala users with an enjoyable experience and stable service over the long term, we have decided Season 21 will run indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the Season 21 Ninjala Pass will also last indefinitely. We will still continue to hold various events such as WNA Tours.<\/p>\n<p>The servers for Ninjala <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NinjalaTheGame\/comments\/1mpvum3\/season_21_ends_in_12_years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apparently won&#8217;t be going away<\/a> anytime soon. The title even received a Switch 2 compatibility update on 19th June 2025 &#8211; fixing some &#8220;previously identified issues&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This bubblegum ninja game was released for free on the Switch eShop in June 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/ninjalas_release_gets_delayed_until_june_due_to_the_coronavirus_outbreak_gungho_president_apologises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">after multiple delays<\/a>. When Ninjala was initially revealed, it was often compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Splatoon<\/a> \u2013 with GungHo&#8217;s CEO Kazuki Morishita <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/ninjala_isnt_really_like_splatoon_but_wed_love_to_do_a_crossover_says_gungho_ceo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">describing it as being &#8220;very different&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In our review of the game here on Nintendo Life around the time of its release, we awarded Ninjala seven out of ten stars.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts about this news? Did you ever play this game on Switch? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/ninjalathegame.com\/en\/news\/info\/season21.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ninjalathegame.com\/en\/news\/info\/season21.html\" target=\"_blank\">ninjalathegame.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\tRelated Games<\/p>\n<p>\tSee Also<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755173590_658_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: GungHo Online Entertainment GungHo Online&#8217;s free-to-play multiplayer title Ninjala is now in its fifth year, and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,37575,137,376,1106,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-73254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-ninjala","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-switch-eshop","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}