Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis will shut down on October 6, 2026: you have just over a year left

Square Enix has put a date on the end of Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis: October 6, 2026. That gives players a little more than a year before the mobile and PC RPG goes offline, a bit over three years after launch.

The company says you can no longer buy Red Crystals. If you’ve still got some sitting in your account, you can keep spending them in the in-game store until the servers shut down. Refunds for unused currency are only being offered to players in Taiwan, though events and updates will keep rolling out through the final date.

Before Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis goes away, Square Enix also plans to add the previously unreleased Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII story. It’ll be released in three parts and folded into the game’s free-to-play, chapter-based retelling of the original Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, along with its newer original material.

If you’re still playing Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis regularly, those last story updates sound like a fair reason to stick around. The shutdown also comes after the game reached a Steam peak of about 4,700 players, according to public concurrency data, then dropped off hard later. And it lands in the middle of Square Enix’s broader run of mobile game shutdowns, which keeps the live-service preservation problem in view.

You can still play Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis on iOS and Android, where it launched on September 7, 2023, and on PC through Steam, where it arrived on December 7, 2023. So there’s still more than a year left to finish the story and spend whatever Red Crystals you have left.