Final Flag studio lays off half its staff because it places ‘the way forward for the sport within the arms of our gamers’

The CTF shooter Final Flag initially caught our eye due to the co-founders of developer Night time Avenue Video games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, higher recognized to the world as, respectively, the supervisor and lead singer of Think about Dragons. However it turned out to be a reasonably good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no slouch within the area of capturing and capturing, spent a while with it in 2025 and “discovered rather a lot to love about it.”

However as is so usually the case lately, Final Flag struggled to seek out an viewers. In April, Night time Avenue Video games mentioned it will make the sport free to play each weekend till its first replace got here out, however only a week later it pulled the plug, saying that “our participant rely shouldn’t be at the moment the place we want it to be to help further growth past our upcoming deliberate patches.”

Final week, government producer Jonathan Jelinek confirmed the all-but-inevitable “discount in our crew,” and in a brand new assertion supplied to Sport Developer, Mac Reynolds, the CEO of Night time Avenue Video games, confirmed that “a few dozen staff” had been let go within the layoffs, and that 13 stay to pursue new sport concepts.

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“Our crew poured all the pieces into bringing Final Flag to life, and I am happy with what we constructed collectively,” Reynolds mentioned. “Sport growth is an inherently dangerous enterprise, and it is not misplaced on us what it means to take an opportunity on one thing you imagine in.”

Reynolds mentioned the studio will work with laid-off staff over the following couple months “to assist them discover new adventures,” and in addition reaffirmed Night time Avenue’s dedication to giving Final Flag a correct send-off, with new content material coming over the following couple months together with new characters, maps, sport modes, cosmetics, and perhaps most significantly, “the flexibility for gamers to host lobbies with their very own customized sport guidelines.”

“Placing the way forward for the sport within the arms of our gamers is one thing we are able to all be happy with. After that, Night time Avenue Video games will probably be diving again into new sport concepts with our 13 remaining builders. We’ll be sharing extra on that later.”