Outriders and Bulletstorm developer Folks Can Fly has introduced that it has let go 120 workers, in addition to scaled down a few of its self-publishing tasks.
In an announcement on Twitter, Folks Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski mentioned, “At present, we made a really troublesome determination to scale back our self-publishing technique by suspending Venture Victoria, cutting down our crew Venture Bifrost, and restructuring a few of our supporting groups at Folks Can Fly.”
He blames the exterior pressures of the online game trade and that the layoffs have been vital as these pressures continued past the studio’s forecast. Because of this, the studio is now doubling down on new work-for-hire engagements and specializing in improvement of a single impartial recreation.
Again in 2023, Folks Can Fly confirmed that it was within the pre-production part for 3 video games: Venture Dagger, Venture Bifrost, and Venture Victoria, all three of which have been going to be self-published and launch between 2025-2026. Venture Dagger was canceled earlier this 12 months in April, and now it seems like Bifrost and Victoria are dealing with hassle if not outright canceled.
Folks Can Fly additionally has a number of different tasks in improvement, together with Venture Gemini with Sq. Enix, slated to launch in 2026, in addition to Venture Purple, which is at the moment on the idea stage. The studio can also be working with Microsoft on a thriller IP known as Project Maverick.