Supermassive Games, the Guildford studio behind Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, has announced a restructuring that could cost as many as 75 staff their jobs.
The studio said the proposed reductions are needed to “ensure sustainability” for the business going forward.
Important detail: 75 is a maximum, not a final count. As a UK company, Supermassive is proposing redundancies, which means affected staff are told their roles are at risk before a consultation process begins. The final number could end up lower.
Supermassive hasn’t said which teams are affected, when the consultation ends, or whether any announced project has been delayed or canceled. The company also didn’t point to any single game as the reason.
The news comes after a busy but bumpy stretch. Supermassive released The Casting of Frank Stone for Behaviour Interactive in 2024, developed Little Nightmares III for Bandai Namco, and launched Directive 8020, the delayed sci-fi entry that kicks off the second season of The Dark Pictures Anthology.
Cinematic horror isn’t cheap
Supermassive’s games run on motion capture, facial capture, big casts, and branching scripts, where entire fully produced scenes are only seen by a fraction of players. Short playtimes, expensive production. That squeeze has hit plenty of premium single-player developers during the ongoing wave of games industry layoffs.
For now, the only confirmed part is the proposal itself. Up to 75 people are waiting to find out where they stand.
