Rec Room shut down (2026-06-01)

What closed: Rec Room, the UGC game platform with a creator token economy, shut down on 2026-06-01. Token purchases and new Partnered Creator registrations ended 2026-05-01, creator token earnings stopped 2026-05-18, and a final payout ran on 2026-06-01. The previous cash-out rate was $150 per 250,000 tokens (secondary: GeekWire, Next Reality; the official blog post title confirms the closure).

If you earned there

• Confirm the final payout of 2026-06-01 arrived; there is no later payout window in the record.
• Export room assets, media and any audience contact you hold outside the platform; the record shows no post-closure data access.

Verified alternatives in the registry (category 07)

• Roblox: a US 18+ Developer Exchange rate of $0.0054 per Robux was added in 2025-2026 (official).
• Fortnite: in-island item sales opened to creators and cumulative creator payouts passed $1 billion (secondary for the total).
• VRChat Creator Economy: documented creator payouts (official payout page).
• Meta Horizon Worlds: the temporary Activity Bonus stopped taking enrollments after 2026-05-28 and a metrics-driven bonus replaced it (official docs via search); a $50 million creator fund is recorded.

See the [games and UGC category](../category/07.html) for the full records and labels.