It launched two years after most of the gaming industry had moved on. It stripped out its defining feature this spring. Now it is finishing the job: Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles, Ubisoft’s blockchain-enabled tactics game, will shut down permanently on October 30, 2026.
The announcement was posted on the game’s official website and Discord server with little fanfare. “After careful consideration, we have made the decision to sunset the game,” the statement read. “The Champions Tactics servers will officially shut down on October 30. Until then, the game will remain fully playable, and our goal is to ensure that players can continue to enjoy the experience during these final months.” In-app purchases have already been disabled across all platforms with immediate effect.
What Was Champions Tactics?
Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles launched in 2024 as a turn-based tactical strategy game built around the Oasys blockchain. Its central hook was that the units players used in battle — called Champions — could be minted, owned and traded as NFTs. At launch, some of those Champions appeared on the in-game marketplace for upwards of $63,000.
The game arrived into a market that had largely already given up. The NFT and Web3 gaming boom had crested somewhere around 2021 and early 2022, with publishers piling in before a collective retreat. Ubisoft was one of the loudest voices in that rush — and, as it turned out, one of the most stubborn holdouts.
Ubisoft’s Long History of Not Getting the Hint
The publisher’s Web3 story begins well before Champions Tactics. In January 2022, as the backlash to NFT gaming was already at full volume, Ubisoft’s VP of Strategic Innovations told the press that players simply “don’t get” the value of NFTs. The comment landed exactly as badly as you might expect. By September that year, CEO Yves Guillemot was rowing back, saying the company was merely “researching” Web3 integration and would only pursue it “when we have something that gives you a real benefit.”
Champions Tactics was their answer to that brief. And remarkably, it was not even a lone experiment — Ubisoft launched not one but two NFT games in 2024, a statement of conviction in the technology that the gaming market roundly rejected.
The Slow Wind-Down
The shutdown did not arrive without warning. In May 2026, Ubisoft announced it would “progressively transition away from blockchain functionality” because of changes to the Oasys infrastructure underpinning the game’s Web3 features. On 27 May, player wallets were locked, the in-game Forge and Marketplace were shut permanently, and on-chain trading was disabled. Players kept their Champions in-game, but the ability to sell them was gone.
Ubisoft had also tried a second angle. Champions Tactics Reforged — a free-to-play version on Steam that stripped out NFT mechanics entirely — launched in an attempt to bring in a more conventional audience. Its reviews on Steam settled at mixed, and the players Ubisoft needed did not materialise.
“The Champions Tactics servers will officially shut down on October 30. Until then, the game will remain fully playable.” — Ubisoft
With the blockchain gone and the Steam version stalled, October 30 is the clean ending that Champions Tactics never found during its two years of operation.
What Happens to Players Now?
Players have roughly three months of access remaining. The game stays fully playable until servers go offline, and no further spending is possible — all in-app purchases are disabled with immediate effect. Ubisoft says it will share further reminders as October 30 approaches.
One exit ramp is on offer. High-ranked Champions Tactics players are being pointed toward Might and Magic Fates, Ubisoft’s collectible card game that launched in early access in February 2026. It features a marketplace for buying and selling cards for real money or cryptocurrency. Reaction in the Champions Tactics Discord to that offer has been, by most accounts, less than enthusiastic.
Key date: Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles servers go offline permanently on October 30, 2026. In-app purchases are already disabled.
The closure draws a firm line under Ubisoft’s most visible blockchain gaming project. Whether it closes the chapter on their broader Web3 ambitions is harder to say — Might and Magic Fates remains live, still carrying its own marketplace and crypto features. But for Champions Tactics and its remaining community, October 30 is what matters now.
