Polyarc, the Seattle studio behind the acclaimed VR sequence Moss, has closed its doorways after virtually 12 years.
The information got here through a LinkedIn publish from the studio’s official account.
“After practically 12 years driving the joyous rollercoaster of feelings that’s making video video games, our time collectively has come to an finish,” the publish reads. “As we wind down lively improvement, we’re saying our farewells to one another.”
“Working collectively over all of those years has been an honour,” the publish continued. “Bringing shock and delight to those that performed our video games has been a privilege. Thanks to everybody at Polyarc, our work is now completed.”
The publish included a reverse recruiting spreadsheet with contact particulars for affected employees, urging different studios to achieve out. Based on the studio’s personal LinkedIn knowledge, Polyarc employed between 11-50 folks and had already gone via a spherical of layoffs again in March, after the studio did not safe funding for a since-cancelled undertaking.
Its last launch was Moss: The Forgotten Relic, a July launch that introduced each mainline Moss video games to flatscreen for the primary time.
Polyarc’s closure is the most recent in a grim run for VR improvement this 12 months. Meta kicked off 2026 by chopping round 1,500 jobs from its Actuality Labs division and shutting three of its personal studios outright, Armature, Sanzaru, and Twisted Pixel, whereas gutting Camouflaj right down to a skeleton crew – all of which got here on prime of cuts in early 2025, too. Meta has additionally since pulled its industrial Quest headsets from sale, redirecting its funding towards AI and good glasses as a substitute. Elsewhere, nDreams laid off 78 employees and closed two studios in March.
Polyarc introduced massive plans just some years in the past, together with a VR aggressive multiplayer sport the studio had been desirous to develop since its inception in 2015. Its again catalogue, together with each Moss video games and The Forgotten Relic, stays that can be purchased.