Last Flag

Last Flag is a 5v5 team based third person multiplayer shooter with an art style inspired by game shows from the 1970s. A hero shooter, it features nine characters with different abilities, weapons and team roles. It expands on the capture the flag formula by adding the ability to move and hide the flag as opposed to the flag spot being pre-determined. Both teams are given a minute to hide their flag and collect currency for character upgrades.

Three towers are situated in the middle of the playfield; capturing them will provide healing to teammates and gradually scan sections the map, revealing the location of the flag if it lies in the scanned sections. After one team brings the opposing team's flag to their flag, the game enters sudden death, where the flag has to be defended for a period of time, giving the opponents a chance to win the flag back. Running out of health gets the player into a downed state where they can be finished off.

Last Flag's development studio, the Las Vegas-based Night Street Games, was founded by Dan Reynolds, vocalist of the pop rock band Imagine Dragons, alongside his brother and band manager Mac Reynolds. Imagine Dragons have been involved with the video game industry since 2014 when they performed a The Legend Of Zelda medley with Nintendo composer Koji Kondo at The Game Awards 2014. They also composed "Children of the Sky", a song made in collaboration with Bethesda Softworks for their 2023 game Starfield.

Speaking to The Washington Post, Dan stated that he is a gamer and has played various games from Super Mario World to League of Legends, noting starting to play video games before playing music. In an interview with Variety, Mac stated that he wanted to run a video game studio since third grade. He also recalls "playing capture the flag in the woods at night with flashlights, friends, and lots of adrenaline", noting that video game versions of capture the flag, such as those present in Halo, do not "[scratch] that itch of what it feels like to play capture flag, which is real hiding, real finding, the thrill of nature, being a hero, sneaking around." On Steam, Night Street Games is described as "an independent game studio on a mission to build multiplayer games crafted with heart."

After a 2025 digital preview event, Polygon stated that Last Flag "captures the essence of playing schoolyard games like hide-and-seek or capture the flag," calling the game "promising". PC Gamer criticized the movement and shooting mechanics, but otherwise called it a "great concept", praising the art style and comparing it to Team Fortress 2.

The PC version of Last Flag received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. Shacknews praised the original gameplay formula, describing it as a "tribute to a bygone era" and a "breath of fresh air" in an otherwise oversaturated market; criticism was directed at the underlying capture the flag mechanics, while the game's content at launch was deemed insufficient.