Until Dawn Developer Supermassive Games Cutting Up to 75 Staff, Following Mixed Response to Directive 8020

Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games has announced layoffs impacting up to 75 unit — the studio's 3rd circular of occupation losses successful 3 years.

This latest circular of cuts was confirmed publically contiguous successful a connection posted to societal media by Supermassive, which described the "difficult determination to statesman a redundancy consultation process" arsenic a "necessary measurement to assistance guarantee the sustainability of the company."

"We cognize this volition beryllium an incredibly hard clip for everyone, and our precedence passim the process volition beryllium to supply enactment to each those impacted," the workplace continued.

Supermassive Games' latest motorboat was Directive 8020, different rubric successful the studio's signature fearfulness anthology series, The Dark Pictures. The crippled arrived successful May to a affirmative write-up from IGN which praised its polished visuals and improved gameplay, though the crippled sits with a mixed idiosyncratic effect connected Steam, wherever conscionable 1,400 radical person near a review.

The institution antecedently chopped unit successful February 2024, erstwhile astir 90 unit were impacted, and again successful July 2025 arsenic it shed 35 much employees and delayed the long-in-development Directive 8020 adjacent further. Prior to this, the institution reported employing astir 350 unit successful 2023 — a full that present has been halved.

Based successful Guildford, U.K., Supermassive Games was founded successful 2008 and has established itself arsenic 1 of the best-known fearfulness crippled developers globally. The occurrence of its 2015 classical Until Dawn inspired The Dark Pictures Anthology, a bid of standalone communicative fearfulness games wherever subordinate prime allowed for a chaotic array of outcomes.

But the studio's caller enactment has received a lukewarm response, specified arsenic its 2025 sequel Little Nightmares 3 and 2024 Dead by Daylight spinoff The Casting of Frank Stone. The institution presently does not person a caller task announced publicly.

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