The Roblox-like VR title Rec Room is shutting down after operating for a decade. The free-to-play social game is closing its doors because the developers "never quite figured out" how to make it ...

“Despite this popularity, we never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business,” the company said in a statement. “Our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we ...

The Seattle social gaming platform, once valued at $3.5 billion, shuts down at noon Pacific today after a decade and 150 ...

The despair among Rec Room players is real. Users of the popular social gaming platform expressed their disbelief and sadness over the demise of the Seattle-based company, which announced Monday that ...

Rec Room is slated to shut down servers on June 1st, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT (local time here), the studio announced in a blog post on Monday night. “Over the past decade, Rec Room grew into something ...

Social VR platform Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, announced earlier this week that it will be shutting down in June. The studio says it never quite figured out how to turn a profit, though top ...

It's the end of an era for those gamers who loved to hang out in the virtual reality multiplayer game Rec Room. On March 30, 2026, developers posted an update on blog.recroom.com announcing that the ...

The developers of Rec Room have announced that the game will be shutting down this year. While Rec Room had a good amount of popularity, its run will come to an end a decade after it got its start.

Rec Room, the social gaming platform once riding high on a $3.5 billion valuation (now that’s a price tag), is now laying off “roughly half” its team. That’s not a pivot—that’s a full-blown reset.

IShowSpeed paid an emotional farewell to Rec Room, calling it a core part of his early streaming career and thanking the game ...

Rec Room shuts down June 1 after failing to achieve profitability. Fans are logging in one last time before servers go offline permanently.