A little over six months after its launch, Ubisoft has announced that it will shut down XDefiant, its free-to-play first-person shooter, in 2025.

Ubisoft's first-person shooter XDefiant, which launched less than six months ago with some success, will shut down on June 3, 2025. As part of that, the studio will close three production studios and lay off 277 employees.

Rocksmith studio Ubisoft San Francisco is shutting down alongside the company’s Osaka, Japan studio as their latest project XDefiant has bombed. After a series of denials, Ubisoft has confirmed that its free-to-play shooter failed to make its mark in a highly competitive market,

Ubisoft has announced that XDefiant, its multiplatform free-to-play Call of Duty-like FPS, is shutting down in June despite the game’s executive producer saying that it wasn’t dying and was “doing well” in September.