Square Enix will shut down Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis in 2026
Ever Crisis goes offline Oct. 6, cutting off live events and future story updates. Square Enix has already ended Red Crystal sales and will refund unused paid currency.
Final Fantasy VII Ever Crisis will stop service on Oct. 6, 2026, at 11:00 PM PDT, ending the mobile game’s live events, future story chapters, and ongoing battle updates. Square Enix has already ended Red Crystal sales on July 7, and the company says refunds for unused paid currency will be handled as the shutdown winds down.
Square Enix posted the end-of-service notice on the game’s official site, saying, “After careful consideration, we have decided to end the service of FINAL FANTASY VII EVER CRISIS on Oct. 6, 2026, at 11:00 PM PDT.” The remaining support plan includes a final roadmap of updates before the servers go dark, and that lineup includes the first worldwide release of Before Crisis FINAL FANTASY VII along with the conclusion of the game’s remaining story content.
That makes the final stretch more than a simple countdown. Ever Crisis was built as a live-service extension of the Final Fantasy VII universe, mixing episodic storytelling, character collection, and a battle system that could be expanded over time. When the service ends, the version players have been building teams and clearing content in will disappear, along with the evolving meta and the stream of limited-time events that kept the game moving.
The scale of the project at launch makes the closure sharper. Square Enix and developer Applibot celebrated more than 1 million pre-registered users when Ever Crisis arrived on mobile devices on Sept. 7, 2023. It was never treated as a throwaway side app, but as an ongoing attempt to keep one of Square Enix’s most important franchises active on phones and tablets.
Now the game's remaining value is compressed into a few final updates and a hard stop in October. The planned release of Before Crisis FINAL FANTASY VII offers one last piece of preservation inside the game itself, but once service ends, the live-service experience that supported events, progression, and purchases will be gone. For a title carrying the Final Fantasy VII name, that is the clearest reminder of how fragile even major mobile IP can be when the cadence of content and the business behind it stop lining up.
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