Shelf-Life Beta
Shutdown Watch / Issue 1
Four games switched off in a month, and three more dates to know
Shutdown Watch · 10 October 2026
The first Shutdown Watch. Every week: the games that lost their servers, the ones about to, and what's happening to physical copies and to the rules on what you actually own.
Switched off
Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis
Square Enix's free-to-play mobile game went offline on 6 October. Refunds for unused paid crystals were offered only to players in Taiwan.
Details · Source: Square Enix
Disney Pixel RPG
GungHo closed the gacha game on 30 September. Unused paid crystals can be refunded through a form on the official site.
Mario Kart Tour
Nintendo switched off its mobile racer on 29 September (early on the 30th in the UK). No offline version was released, so it can no longer be played.
Details · Source: God is a Geek
Firewall Ultra
Sony's PS VR2 shooter needed a connection to play, so it stopped working when its servers closed on 17 September, about three years after launch.
Details · Source: Push Square
Coming up
The New Denpa Men: 7 December
Paid item sales have already ended. Unused paid currency will be refunded.
Details · Source: Genius Sonority
Rainbow Six Mobile: 15 January
Ubisoft is closing its mobile shooter less than a year after its global launch.
New World: Aeternum: 31 January
Amazon's MMO is already off sale, and in-game purchases ended in July. The servers go off at the end of January.
Physical copies
A third of PS5 discs aren't the whole game
Does It Play?, which tests physical games without an internet connection, found that 66% of the 792 PS5 games it tested play fully with no download. About a third need a download or are missing content. Worth checking before you buy a disc to keep.
Source: PC Gamer