Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius is fully shutting down this October

Of all major console game publishers, Square Enix has been one of the more supportive of the mobile platform – releasing a ton of ports as well as dedicated mobile titles. One of its most successful has been Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius. Almost 10 years following the game’s launch (and one year after its discontinuation in the West), Square Enix has now announced that FF:BE will also be shutting down in Japan.

Making the announcement on their Japanese Twitter page (and as translated by the platform), the FF:BE team wrote: “Thank you very much for always playing FINAL FANTASY BRAVE EXVIUS. We have decided to end the service as of 12:00 on Friday, October 31, 2025. We sincerely thank all of you who have played with us for such a long time.”

For the uninitiated, Final Fantasy Brave Exvius first launched worldwide in June of 2016, and since then has been updated and added to countless times while offering a ton of interesting and unique crossovers – just some of which included: NieR: Automata; Deus Ex: Mankind Divided; Just Cause 3; Xenogears; Fullmetal Alchemist and even Ariana Grande.

As mentioned, Brave Exvius was discontinued in the rest of the world last year, and so it seemed only a matter of time before the Japanese market followed suit. Still, this represents the end of an era for what once was one of the biggest gacha games around.

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