Rainbow Six Siege Mobile already has a discontinuation date just 7 months after its full release

Ubisoft hasn’t had much luck with live-action games, including mobile spin-offs of some of its biggest franchises. The latest victim of these difficult efforts is Rainbow Six Mobilea free-to-play tactical multiplayer shooter that the French publisher has been trying to get off the ground for years. It will end next year after less than 12 months of full release.

“There’s no easy way to say this: we’ve made the difficult decision to end Rainbow Six Mobile,” the company posted on the game’s X account on October 8. “The game will remain available until January 15, 2027. The next season will be released as scheduled next week.”

Rainbow Six Mobile was first announced in 2022. It then had a beta throughout 2023 which continued until 2024. The game was ultimately delayed until 2025. That year, it was released in Latin America, one of the regions where Rainbow six is the most popular, before being launched globally on February 23, 2026.

Despite millions of downloads on Android and iOS, Rainbow Six Mobile hasn’t stayed in people’s smartphone gaming rotations. “Overall a solid game, I just wish it was more similar to the current console and PC version, with more operator choices and choosing where you/your team spawns instead of it being random,” wrote one reviewer on the Google Play Store. The free-to-play model has also been criticized for locking operators behind paywalls and being too harsh.

Other mobile spin-offs from Ubisoft like The resurgence of division I didn’t do much better. The company even recently ported this looter shooter to PC, where it was called buggy, repetitive, and largely abandoned.