In this paper, we investigated the quantum gravity effects on the thermal properties of the [Formula: see text]-dimensional noncommutative rotating Banados–Teitelboim–Zanelli (NCR-BTZ) black hole in the context of quantum tunneling of relativistic particles. These include Hawking temperature, the thermally local and global stability conditions, and the phase transitions. For this purpose, in the framework of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), we used the Hamilton–Jacobi approach to calculate the tunneling probability for a massive scalar, Dirac, and vector boson particles from the [Formula: see text]-dimensional NCR-BTZ black hole. We found that the modified Hawking temperature of the black hole depends on the black hole properties, on the tunneling particle properties, on the noncommutative parameter, and on the GUP parameter. Using the modified Hawking temperature, we calculated the modified heat capacity, and then we discussed the local thermodynamic stability conditions for the black hole. The black hole may undergo a first-type phase transition to become stable under the scalar particle tunneling whereas, it might undergoes both the first and the second-type phase transitions under the both Dirac and vector boson particles tunneling process. Furthermore, we calculated the Gibbs free energy of the black hole, and we investigated the global stability conditions. We observed that Hawking–Page phase transition may occur in the presence of the quantum gravity effect under the tunneling process of scalar, Dirac, and vector boson particles. In the context of quantum gravity effect, we also derived the modified equation of state to investigate the critical behavior of the commutative rotating BTZ black hole. Finally, we shown that Van der Waals-like phase transition may occur in the context of tunneling process of both Dirac and vector boson particle, whereas it may not occur for the tunneling of scalar particle.