Flappy Bird hit app stores in May 2013 and has been downloaded more than 50 million times, pulling in as much as $50,000 a day in revenue.

In a tweet published over this past weekend, however, the developer of the hit success game posted a sad note on Twitter saying he was taking down the popular game.

"I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users. 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore," Nguyen Dong, a Vietnamese developer, said via social media. The game would be taken down and unavailable for download by new users late Sunday.

Game Theory reviewed Flappy Bird last week and found that it was a deceptively hard and extremely addictive game with minimalist graphics, requiring very good timing on the part of players in order to navigate a colored bird through a never-ending series of pipes. Nguyen said via his Twitter feed that he wanted to create a stripped-down app that focused on gameplay rather than stunning graphics and acknowledged the homage he was paying to Nintendo, which he grew up playing.

The motivation behind the user taking down his overnight success game is that Nguyen has revealed of himself via Twitter in the past couple of days as a man who is highly uncomfortable with his overnight fame and the trolling, memes, criticism and other scrutiny that have come along with it.

Since Flappy Bird became an overnight success with hundreds of thousands of downloads, some critics claimed the developer used bots and stole aspects from other games including, according to one claim, Nintendo's eight-bit graphics.

On Saturday, a note was posted on his Twitter page saying, "I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it. They are overusing it," he said. "I never sell my things," regarding offers to buy his app. "The PR will make me not an indie game maker anymore," he wrote in one tweet.

Now that Flappy Bird is a thing of the past, which games will you be playing instead? Let us know in the comments section below.