Till Daybreak developer Supermassive Video games has introduced layoffs impacting as much as 75 workers — the studio’s third spherical of job losses in three years.
This newest spherical of cuts was confirmed publicly in the present day in an announcement posted to social media by Supermassive, which described the “troublesome choice to start a redundancy session course of” as a “essential step to assist make sure the sustainability of the corporate.”
“We all know this will likely be an extremely troublesome time for everybody, and our precedence all through the method will likely be to supply assist to all these impacted,” the studio continued.
Supermassive Video games’ newest launch was Directive 8020, one other title within the studio’s signature horror anthology sequence, The Darkish Photos. The sport arrived in Could to a positive 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 individuals 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. Previous to this, the corporate reported using round 350 workers in 2023 — a complete that now has been halved.
Primarily based in Guildford, U.Okay., Supermassive Video games was based in 2008 and has established itself as one of many best-known horror sport builders globally. The success of its 2015 traditional Till Daybreak impressed The Darkish Photos Anthology, a sequence of standalone narrative horror video games the place participant alternative allowed for a wild array of outcomes.
However the studio’s current work has acquired a lukewarm response, equivalent to its 2025 sequel Little Nightmares 3 and 2024 Lifeless by Daylight spinoff The Casting of Frank Stone. The corporate at the moment doesn’t have a brand new undertaking introduced publicly.
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