Summary
- Ubisoft chased NFTs, launched Grimoria Chronicles late, and effectively abandoned it amid fading interest.
- Ubisoft pivoted to Champions Tactics Reforged, but player counts and reviews plummeted; complaints arose about pay-to-win gacha mechanics.
- Franchise and NFT markets collapsed: low sales, dead Discord, worthless NFTs, and an 86% share plunge.
For a few years now, Ubisoft has been investing heavily in NFTs. The company started chasing the trend in 2021, and by late 2024, it had created and released its first NFT title, Champions Tactics Grimoria Chronicles.
The problem was that by October 2024, when the game officially released, much of the NFT fad had passed, so Ubisoft decided to keep it all a little bit quiet. Fast-forward to August 2025, and it looks like Ubisoft has all but abandoned Grimoria Chronicles for another title in the Champions Tactics world, Champions Tactics Reforged. The problem is that Reforged isn’t doing too well either.
The Death Of Champions Tactics Grimoria Chronicles
Ubisoft’s blockchain game was released last October with very little fanfare, yet somehow, it still contained items that cost upwards of $60,000. Unsurprisingly, though, with so little buzz and the company missing the NFT boat, Grimoria Chronicles has effectively been abandoned.
The game’s website still displays parts of the roadmap from this year as locked, even though the timeframes have passed, and that roadmap doesn’t extend past 2025. While there are 580 NFTs still listed on the game’s marketplace, ranging from $4.35 to $1,500, there appears to have been little movement in those numbers for a while. The last “Mint” of new champions took place over a year ago.
The last time the series’ official Twitter account mentioned Grimoria Chronicles by name was on July 15, and before that, on March 28. Most of its newer tweets have instead focused on Champions Tactics Reforged and advertised another of its upcoming free-to-play games, Might and Magic Fates, alongside games like Star Wars Outlaws and Just Dance 2026. Ubisoft has moved on.
Ubisoft Has Seemingly Prioritized Champions Tactics Reforged Over Its Struggling NFT Game
In May, Ubisoft pivoted from Champions Tactics Grimoria Chronicles to Champions Tactics Reforged. While the former still exists, the latter is a free-to-play game on Steam, where much of Ubisoft’s energy is focused.
It sells itself as a “turn-based strategy game”, where players can “master deep strategy, and outsmart rivals in intense duels.” However, this game has also failed to gain much traction.
While things didn’t start off awfully for Reforged, peaking at almost 1,500 players two months ago, data from SteamDB shows that, at the time of writing, there is currently only a single person playing Reforged. It peaked at eight over the last 24 hours and hasn’t risen higher than 16 in the previous 30 days.
The game currently sits at ‘Mixed’ reviews on the platform, with players lamenting its pay-to-win, gacha-style mechanics, lack of polish, and slow pace, alongside the fact that it has seemingly skirted Steam’s NFT rules.
The Death Of The Champions Tactics Franchise
It’s hard to imagine Ubisoft’s Champions Tactics franchise lasting much longer.
It attempted to keep the NFT flame burning earlier this year by releasing a Champions Tactics avatar collection, but data on OpenSea shows that there have only been four sales in the last month. Three of these sales were under $10, while the fourth sold for $20.81. A 2023 Champions Tactics profile picture NFT collection is seeing a little more action, with a couple of sales each day, but it’s hardly earth-shattering.
A quick glance at the official Champions Tactics Discord server reveals that the community has also abandoned the game, with the last post in that community section dating back six weeks. The main Champions Tactics channel sees around five posts a day, and the most recent official game update from Ubisoft came on July 27, 2025. The only other channel that sees real activity is the trading channel, with players desperate to sell off their worthless NFTs.
It’s another fascinating case of mismanagement at Ubisoft. Had the funds and development efforts that the company spent on its blockchain games been spent elsewhere, it may have found itself in a far better position than it is today. Instead, Ubisoft continues to push out sub-par titles, making baffling decisions, and its share prices have dropped 86 percent since it first mentioned NFTs in March 2021.