Ubisoft is pulling the plug on Rainbow Six Mobile. In a development update posted on October 8, the team behind the free-to-play tactical shooter confirmed it has decided to sunset the game, which will stay online until January 15, 2027. That gives the iOS and Android release a little under eleven months as a fully launched game: it only went worldwide on February 23, 2026, after a soft launch that stretched back to 2023.
What Ubisoft announced
The message from the developers is short and unambiguous. They describe the shutdown as a difficult decision, confirm the January 15 end date, and say the team will move on to what Ubisoft calls other long-term strategic projects. The publisher's accompanying FAQ frames the call as a way to align its resources with its long-term strategic priorities, which is about as much explanation as players are going to get. Ubisoft has not named the projects the team is moving to.
The update looks back over the game's life as well. By the developers' count, Rainbow Six Mobile ran through 15 seasons between its soft launch and today, and the team thanks the community for the tournaments, strategies, clips and memes that grew around it. It is a warm send-off, but the timing is hard to ignore: few live-service games get a full global launch, a steady run of seasonal updates, and an end-of-service notice inside the same calendar year.
One more season is still coming
Rainbow Six Mobile is not going dark straight away. The developers say the next season will still release as planned next week, so players have at least one more batch of content to work through before the servers close. Ubisoft has not given that season an exact date or said whether anything else will follow it before January.
What players most want to know right now is what happens to the money they have already spent. Ubisoft says it will share more updates in the coming weeks so players know exactly what to expect and can prepare for the transition, and the FAQ points to further details on in-game purchases and transition support at that stage. Until those details land, there is no word on refunds, on when the in-game store will close, or on when the game will come off the App Store and Google Play. If you were planning to top up premium currency, it is sensible to wait for that follow-up first.
A short run for a long-planned game
Rainbow Six Mobile was first revealed in April 2022 as a free-to-play take on Rainbow Six Siege rebuilt for phones, led by Ubisoft Montreal. It kept the core of Siege intact: five-versus-five attack and defense rounds, destructible walls and floors, drones and cameras for scouting, and a roster of familiar operators with their signature gadgets. Matches and maps were reworked for touch controls and shorter sessions, and controller support arrived along the way.
The game spent a long stretch in limited regional testing before Ubisoft committed to a worldwide release. That global launch in February 2026 brought it to iPhone, iPad and Android in most territories, with Ubisoft promising a regular cadence of seasons, operators and maps afterwards. The publisher kept that cadence going right up to this week.
What it means for Rainbow Six
The closure does not touch Rainbow Six Siege, which remains Ubisoft's flagship for the series on PC and consoles and continues to roll out its own seasons. For mobile players, though, it removes the only way to play a full Siege-style match on a phone. Ubisoft has not said whether any of the mobile game's ideas or its team's work will surface in other Rainbow Six projects.
It also adds Rainbow Six Mobile to a growing list of live-service games that publishers have shut down within a year or two of launch, as the cost of keeping a free-to-play game supported meets a crowded market. Ubisoft itself ended XDefiant's run not long ago.
Key dates
For anyone still playing, the timeline is simple. The new season arrives next week as planned. Ubisoft's follow-up on purchases and the wind-down is due in the coming weeks. The servers stay up until January 15, 2027, after which Rainbow Six Mobile will no longer be playable.
