Rock Band 4, Harmonix's legendary musical rhythm game, is soon to become unavailable.
On the developer's Discord and the game's subreddit, the team confirmed to fans that the game will be delisted from digital storefronts, including PS Store of course, on 5th October 2025. This is due to music licences for the title's base soundtrack expiring.
"Hey everyone, on Sunday, October 5, 2025, Rock Band 4 turns 10. What a ride it’s been," writes community manager Kyle Winn. "With this milestone comes one big change – the original licenses for the core soundtrack are expiring. Because of that, Rock Band 4 will be removed from the PlayStation and Xbox digital stores."
Winn confirms that, if you already own the game, you'll still be able to download and play it as normal. "The same applies to Downloadable Content (DLC) – songs will come down as they hit the 10-year mark, but anything you’ve purchased will remain in your library," he adds.
So, the base game will be delisted, and all add-on DLC tracks will also be delisted once they reach the 10-year milestone. However, anything you own (or purchase before the 10-year cut-off) is safe and won't be taken away.
It appears that online play will remain functional.
Rock Band 4 was released for PS4 back on 6th October 2015, and has been supported with a frankly absurd amount of DLC ever since. Additional songs only stopped being added in January of 2024, when Harmonix shifted its focus to Fortnite Festival.
It's a pretty incredible legacy, and the longest-lasting game of the plastic instrument peripheral craze, birthed by Harmonix's own Guitar Hero back on PS2.
The base game (which includes the Rivals expansion as standard) currently goes for $9.99/£7.99, so if you don't own it but want to have access to it going forward, it's inexpensive — but you only have a few days between now and its delisting.