Ubisoft will shut Rainbow Six Mobile on 15 January 2027, eight months after its global launch

The free-to-play shooter keeps its next season, due next week, and stays playable until the servers close. Estimates put its lifetime in-app spending at about $5.3 million from 13.1 million downloads.

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Ubisoft is closing Rainbow Six Mobile. The free-to-play shooter's online services end on 15 January 2027, the publisher told players, and the game stays playable until then. The next season still launches next week as planned, PocketGamer.biz reports, with later seasons on their usual schedule until the end.

Ubisoft's message gave the reason as aligning its resources with "long-term strategic priorities", and said the team "will move on to other long-term strategic projects". It promised more detail "in the coming weeks" about how the run-down will work before the servers go dark. Nothing has been said yet about refunds or what happens to in-game purchases.

The post thanked the community for "the memes, videos, strategies, tournaments, impossible plays" and said the team was proud of what it and the players had built together, which is the usual tone of a closure notice and tells you little about the decision itself.

Seven years of work, fifteen seasons

The game had a long road for a short life. It was announced in April 2022, by which point Ubisoft said it had been in development for three years. A soft launch in selected countries followed in 2023, and the worldwide release came in February 2026. Mobilegamer.biz notes that 11 Ubisoft studios worked on it, led by Ubisoft Montreal, with Tencent's mobile shooter team also involved. Across the soft launch and global release it ran 15 seasons.

It was not a game nobody played. PocketGamer.biz puts player spending at around $1.6 million in the first 14 days of the global launch, and AppMagic estimates quoted by Mobilegamer.biz come to about $5.3 million in in-app purchases from 13.1 million downloads over its whole life, soft launch included. For a project that size, that was evidently not enough.

If you play it, the date to remember is 15 January. Until then, Ubisoft says, the game carries on as normal.

Sources

• Rainbow Six Mobile to shut down in January 2027 (PocketGamer.biz)
• Ubisoft is closing Rainbow Six Mobile just seven months after launch (Mobilegamer.biz)

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