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Amazon Luna Kills Individual Game Purchases and Third-Party Stores — All Bought Games Gone by June

Amazon has pivoted Luna to a subscription-only model, removing all third-party stores and permanently killing access to previously purchased games on June 10 with no refunds offered.

Amazon Luna Kills Individual Game Purchases and Third-Party Stores — All Bought Games Gone by June

Amazon Luna is gutting its platform. On April 10, 2026, Amazon quietly removed the ability to purchase individual games and third-party store integrations from its cloud gaming service. More consequentially, all games users previously purchased through Luna will stop working entirely on June 10, 2026 — and there are no refunds.

The announcement marks a significant pivot for Luna toward a pure subscription model, stripping out virtually everything except the core Luna+ channel subscription and the Luna Pro tier.

What's Being Removed

The changes are sweeping and affect multiple parts of the platform simultaneously. Since April 10, Luna no longer offers individual game purchases for à-la-carte titles. The EA Play, Ubisoft+, and GOG stores that were integrated into Luna's interface have been shut down. The "Bring Your Own Library" feature — which let users stream games they'd purchased through EA, Ubisoft, or GOG directly on Luna — will be discontinued on June 3, 2026.

For users who purchased games outright through the Luna storefront, those titles will remain playable until June 10, 2026, at which point access is permanently revoked. Any active Ubisoft+ or Jackbox Games subscriptions purchased through Luna will be cancelled at the end of the current billing cycle, with no further renewals available through the platform.

No Refunds — But Your Save Data Has a Window

Amazon has confirmed no refunds will be issued for previously purchased games or lapsed subscriptions. This has understandably drawn criticism from users who spent money building a Luna game library over the past several years, only to have that library expire on a corporate deadline.

The one silver lining: save data for affected titles will remain available to download for 90 days after June 10, 2026 — giving users until roughly early September to retrieve their progress before it's deleted permanently. Save data can be accessed through the Settings page on a user's Luna account.

Third-Party Platform Accounts Remain Intact

If you linked an EA, GOG, or Ubisoft account to Luna's Bring Your Own Library feature, those platform accounts are unaffected. Any games you purchased through those platforms directly remain playable through their own clients — EA App, GOG Galaxy, Ubisoft Connect, and so on. Luna was simply acting as a streaming interface for those libraries, and that interface is now being pulled.

The Bigger Picture

Luna has long struggled to find a clear identity in a cloud gaming market that increasingly belongs to Xbox Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GeForce Now. The service launched with Amazon Prime integration in 2020 and expanded slowly, but the decision to strip out individual purchases, third-party channels, and bring-your-own-library functionality suggests Amazon is radically simplifying what Luna is — or quietly preparing to wind it down altogether.

The pivot to a pure subscription model mirrors what Google did with Stadia in the months before its closure, though Amazon has deeper pockets and more reason to keep Luna alive as a Prime benefit. Whether this restructuring represents a meaningful commitment to cloud gaming or a prelude to an exit remains to be seen.

For now, if you have games sitting in a Luna purchase history, the clock is ticking. June 10, 2026 is the hard deadline — after that, the library is gone.

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