Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier
Square Enix placed a mobile battle royale thirty years before Final Fantasy VII, but Midgar's soldier candidates disappeared after barely fourteen months.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released mobile battle-royale game set before the events of Final Fantasy VII.
Players combined firearms, magic, monsters and character jobs while competing to join Shinra's SOLDIER programme.
Existence timeline
Square Enix reveals the mobile prequel.
Selected Android players test the battle royale.
The service opens on iOS and Android.
New maps, jobs and events expand Midgar.
Square Enix sets a January deadline.
The official game becomes unplayable.
Why it ended
Square Enix closed the service in January 2023, citing difficulty delivering the experience it wanted.
Last confirmed trace
Official social posts, captured matches, update pages and fan archives retain its seasons and original character designs.
What it left behind
The game remains a vanished canonical corner of the Final Fantasy VII compilation and a case study in adapting a role-playing brand to mobile battle royale.
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.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.