Officially GoneGAMES

Echoes of Mana

Square Enix gathered three decades of Mana heroes into one mobile world, then shut it down only 383 days after launch.

HOW CLOSE TO REALITY100/100
CATEGORYGames
LIFECYCLE2022—2023
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Quick facts

Existence state
Officially Gone
Peak stage
general availability
Research confidence
high
Last verified
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What it was

A formally released mobile action role-playing game in Square Enix's Mana series.

Players searched for the legendary Mana Sword while summoning characters and worlds from across the franchise.

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Existence timeline

Game announced

Square Enix reveals the anniversary mobile project.

Worldwide launch

Echoes opens on iOS and Android.

Series crossovers expand

Characters and scenarios from older Mana games rotate through events.

Closure announced

Paid currency sales stop immediately.

Final updates

The last events conclude the service schedule.

Servers close

Echoes becomes unplayable after 383 days.

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Why it ended

Square Enix concluded that it could not continue providing a satisfactory service and closed the game on 15 May 2023.

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Last confirmed trace

Official notices, downloaded assets, recordings and fan archives retain its original characters and story scenes.
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What it left behind

Echoes demonstrates how even a major legacy catalogue can lose an entire crossover narrative when a live mobile service ends.

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How we classified it

The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.

Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.

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Sources & verification

Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.

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