Supermassive Video games – the developer behind video games comparable to Directive 8020 and the unique Till Daybreak – appears to have misplaced over 70 workers right this moment as a part of widespread layoffs on the firm.
Supermassive Video games beforehand introduced these have been coming in August. In an announcement posted to social media, the developer wrote: “Now we have made the tough determination to start a redundancy session course of, which we anticipate will end result within the lack of as much as 75 of our colleagues. This can be a vital step to make sure the sustainability of our firm.”
It appears that evidently this layoff course of has concluded as of this week, as now-former IT and amenities director Frank Tindle introduced his departure on LinkedIn with a fond farewell to different Supermassive workers in the identical place as him.
“Greater than 70 sensible individuals are leaving Supermassive: builders, artists, producers, QA, operations and extra. Any studio could be fortunate to have them. In case you’re hiring, DM me and I will make the introduction.”
This is not the primary time Supermassive has suffered job cuts in latest reminiscence. Again in July 2025, the studio introduced as much as 36 staff could be laid off, claiming these cuts would permit them to “adapt our crew construction to raised align with latest trade modifications”. This resulted within the delay of Directive 8020, a sport that may go on to launch this Could.
That sport proved divisive, with the studio’s first dive into sci-fi horror tearing many between a stellar forged of characters and grating stealth gameplay. Nonetheless, the studio continues to launch distinctive narrative titles for an viewers of passionate followers. Here is hoping the exhausting instances are over for Supermassive, and people impacted by these latest layoffs land on their toes.