Stray Souls developer Jukai Studio is shutting down. The studio cited poor gross sales and reception of its debut sport, in addition to cyberbullying.
“We’re conscious that you simply had excessive expectations for Stray Souls, however we by no means knowledgeable you that solely two core people, together with contracted personnel, had been engaged on the sport,” Jukai Studio defined in an announcement final month.
“We did the whole lot in our energy to carry the mission to completion in the absolute best for, however all through the period, we, our writer, workers, different writer dev groups, and our shut ones had been consistently attacked by a cyber persecutor, and a few of you, as our neighborhood, had been additionally tormented with undesirable messages and emails.”
Jukai Studio acknowledged that it couldn’t present any additional particulars concerning the cyberbullying matter as it’s now within the palms of attorneys. Nevertheless, Jukai Studio additionally mentioned that it would not abandon the problem regardless of the closure.
Jukai Studio is not the one studio that closed in December. Firewall Extremely developer First Contact Leisure shut down final month because of the normal lack of digital actuality assist throughout the video video games trade.
Stray Souls is an action-horror sport and was launched on October 25, 2023, for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Sequence X|S. It was poorly acquired, incomes a rating of 31 on Metacritic.