PokeRogue is chugging along as 2024’s early leader for the most popular Pokémon fangame, but it looks like development could hit a slight snag, with the game’s creator stepping away from the game just two months after it launched.

PokeRogue launched on March 11 and very quickly became one of the rising stars of the Pokémon community, garnering hundreds of thousands of daily players and sweeping into the content scene for creators and streamers alike. And, while PokeRogue still has plenty of new features and updates coming, the game does have an ending thanks to the work of the development team. But that team is losing one of its pillars moving forward, with Samuel “FlashfyreDev” stepping away from the game now the finale’s done.