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 right now in a press release posted to social media by Supermassive, which described the “troublesome resolution to start a redundancy session course of” as a “obligatory step to assist make sure the sustainability of the corporate.”
“We all know this might be an extremely troublesome time for everybody, and our precedence all through the method might 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 collection, The Darkish Footage. The sport arrived in Could to a constructive write-up from IGN which praised its polished visuals and improved gameplay, although the sport sits with a combined person response on Steam, the place simply 1,400 individuals have left a assessment.
The corporate beforehand minimize workers in February 2024, when round 90 workers have 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.
Based mostly in Guildford, U.Ok., Supermassive Video games was based in 2008 and has established itself as one of many best-known horror recreation builders globally. The success of its 2015 traditional Till Daybreak impressed The Darkish Footage 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, reminiscent of its 2025 sequel Little Nightmares 3 and 2024 Lifeless by Daylight spinoff The Casting of Frank Stone. The corporate at present doesn’t have a brand new mission introduced publicly.
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