Rec Room
| Rec Room | |
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 Rec Room's homepage as of 2026-04-01 | |
| URL | https://rec.net[IA•Wcite•.today] https://recroom.com/[IA•Wcite•.today] |
| Status | Closing |
| Archiving status | In progress... |
| Archiving type | DPoS |
| Project source | recroom-grab, recroom-items |
| Project tracker | recroom |
| IRC channel | #wreckroom (on hackint) |
Rec Room is a VR multiplayer building and games platform, originally launched in 2016-06-01[1] and set to close 2026-06-01[2].
Shutdown
The shutdown was announced on 2026-03-30, where the service will be terminated on 2026-06-01.[2]
School’s Out for Rec Room
Rec Room will be closing down on June 1st 2026 at noon Pacific time.
Over the past decade, Rec Room grew into something amazing, reaching over 150 million players and creators along the way. Players made over half a billion friends on the platform. In total, people all around the world spent a cumulative 68 thousand years in Rec Room. The top UGC rooms saw over 500 years of play time each. That’s a lot of people having a lot of fun.
What this community built together is incredible, and something we'll always be proud of. Even today, millions of people are showing up to spend time in this fun and welcoming place every month.
Despite this popularity, we never quite figured out how to make Rec Room a sustainably profitable business. Our costs always ended up overwhelming the revenue we brought in.
We spent a long time trying to find a way to make the numbers work. But with the recent shift in the VR market, along with broader headwinds in gaming, the path to profitability has gotten tough enough that we've made the difficult decision to shut things down.
We're making this decision now, while we still have the ability to wind things down thoughtfully and do right by the people who built this with us.
So what does this mean exactly?
On June 1st:
- You will no longer be able to login to and play Rec Room
- The rec.net website will go offline.
- Online services related to Rec Room Studio will no longer be available.
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