Catizen’s Telegram game “Pixel Ninja” will be discontinued! In-game purchases will be closed today, and players can continue playing until January next year

Catizen, a well-known game project on Telegram, announced today (6th) through its official X account that its game "Pixel Ninja" will cease operations and be offline due to operational adjustments.
(Previous summary: Telegram game Catizen mid-year report: users exceeded 63.4 million, received investment from Animoca Brands, and will launch TON L2 game blockchain)
(Background supplement: Catizen: launch AI Cat & 200 games in 2025, accelerating $CATI consumption)

Catizen, a well-known game project on Telegram, passed the official X today (6) The account issued an announcement stating that due to operational adjustments, its game "Pixel Ninja" will cease operations and be offline.

The announcement pointed out that Pixel Ninja’s in-game purchases will be officially closed starting today, but players can still play normally for three months until the game is completely closed on January 29, 2026. The Catizen team added that it would like to thank all "Pixel Ninja" players and promises to continue to launch more high-quality games to enrich the content of Catizen Game Center and give players more choices.

Hey Catizens

Due to operational adjustments, Pixel Ninja will cease operations and go offline.

In-game purchases will be closed today, but the game can still be played normally for three months until January 29, 2026 (Thursday), when it will officially shut down.

Thank you to… pic.twitter.com/r7xChVn4lO

— Catizen (@CatizenAI) November 6, 2025

What is Pixel Ninja?

Catizen was originally a popular Telegram game based on the public chain TON (The Open Network). It stood out in the Telegram game trend last year and received strong support from the TON Foundation.

"Pixel Ninja" is a pixel-style ninja adventure game launched by Catizen Game Center in May 2025. Players can form teams to fight, upgrade ninjutsu, and integrate well-known IPs such as "Naruto" to make the game full of nostalgia and strategic fun.

There are constant voices of FUD in the community

However, it is worth noting that the community is currently generally skeptical of Telegram games, including Catizen. The first is the product. Driven by Notcoin last year, Telegram did set off a gaming boom, but the projects that followed were all the same, making players gradually lose interest in playing; secondly, from the perspective of currency prices, whether it is the currency price of various game projects or the currency price of TON, there has been no new growth after the craze. After major game projects were launched on the exchange, the currency price has been falling, making it more difficult to attract players, forming a vicious cycle; finally, TON The foundation had previously devoted all its efforts to building the Telegram gaming ecosystem, but in the face of the current situation, there are also voices in the community that believe that TON really made a wrong choice.