The Concord curse continues: Sony shuts down Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble before full release

Sony’s live-service graveyard continues to welcome new residents.

Sony Interactive Entertainment and Oh BiBi have announced the upcoming shutdown of Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble. The free-to-play team shooter for iOS and Android began its journey in November 2025 with a soft launch in the Philippines and Indonesia. Subsequently, the game gradually rolled out to new regions, but the project never lived to see a full worldwide release.

On November 6, Ranger Rumble received its final update, which disabled monetization and made the battle pass free. As early as November 21, the game will be removed from the App Store and Google Play, but users who managed to install it will be able to continue battling until May 1, 2027. Until that time, all active modes and matchmaking will remain available. After that, the servers will be permanently shut down, the game will no longer launch, and player data will vanish into digital oblivion.

Ranger Rumble has become yet another addition to PlayStation’s collection of shuttered online projects. In 2023, Naughty Dog scrapped the development of The Last of Us Online, and in 2024, Sony pulled the plug on Concord just two weeks after its release. Against this backdrop, the mobile Ratchet & Clank at least lasted longer than its infamous sibling.