Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games has introduced layoffs impacting up to 75 workers — the studio’s third spherical of job losses in three years.
This newest spherical of cuts was confirmed publicly right this moment in a press release posted to social media by Supermassive, which described the “troublesome resolution to start a redundancy session course of” as a “vital step to assist make sure the sustainability of the corporate.”
“We all know this can be an extremely troublesome time for everybody, and our precedence all through the method can be to present help to all these impacted,” the studio continued.
Supermassive Games’ newest launch was Directive 8020, one other title in the studio’s signature horror anthology collection, The Darkish Photos. The sport arrived in Could to a optimistic write-up from IGN which praised its polished visuals and improved gameplay, although the sport sits with a blended person response on Steam, the place simply 1,400 folks have left a evaluation.
The corporate beforehand reduce workers in February 2024, when round 90 workers had been impacted, and once more in July 2025 because it shed 35 extra workers and delayed the long-in-development Directive 8020 even additional. Prior to this, the corporate reported using round 350 workers in 2023 — a complete that now has been halved.
Primarily based in Guildford, U.Ok., Supermassive Games was based in 2008 and has established itself as one of the best-known horror recreation builders globally. The success of its 2015 traditional Until Dawn impressed The Darkish Photos Anthology, a collection of standalone narrative horror video games the place participant selection allowed for a wild array of outcomes.
However the studio’s current work has acquired a lukewarm response, similar to its 2025 sequel Little Nightmares 3 and 2024 Useless by Daylight spinoff The Casting of Frank Stone. The corporate at the moment doesn’t have a brand new mission introduced publicly.
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