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Rec Room’s final day: Fans say goodbye as social gaming platform comes to an end

The Seattle startup is ending after struggling to profit from user-made content, with players preserving avatars, rooms and memories before the final shutdown.

Summary by GeekWire
The Seattle-based social gaming platform Rec Room is shutting down today (Rec Room Image) It’s the last day of school for Rec Room, and there’s no next year. The social gaming platform, set on a virtual college campus where 150 million players built worlds and friendships over the past decade, shuts down at noon Pacific today. The Seattle startup, founded in 2016 by former Microsoft engineers, raised $294 million and hit a $3.5 billion valuation…

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Hindustan Times broke the news in New Delhi, India on Sunday, May 31, 2026.
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