Includes developers, artists, producers, QA, operations and others.

Supermassive Games - the developer behind games such as Directive 8020 and the original Until Dawn - seems to have lost over 70 staff today as part of widespread layoffs at the company.

Supermassive Games previously announced these were coming in August. In a statement posted to social media, the developer wrote: "We have made the difficult decision to begin a redundancy consultation process, which we anticipate will result in the loss of up to 75 of our colleagues. This is a necessary step to ensure the sustainability of our company."

It seems that this layoff process has concluded as of this week, as now-former IT and facilities director Frank Tindle announced his departure on LinkedIn with a fond farewell to other Supermassive staff in the same position as him.

"More than 70 brilliant people are leaving Supermassive: developers, artists, producers, QA, operations and more. Any studio would be lucky to have them. If you're hiring, DM me and I'll make the introduction."

This isn't the first time Supermassive has suffered job cuts in recent memory. Back in July 2025, the studio announced up to 36 employees would be laid off, claiming these cuts would allow them to "adapt our team structure to better align with recent industry changes". This resulted in the delay of Directive 8020, a game that would go on to release this May.

That game proved divisive, with the studio's first dive into sci-fi horror tearing many between a stellar cast of characters and grating stealth gameplay. Still, the studio continues to release unique narrative titles for an audience of passionate fans. Here's hoping the hard times are over for Supermassive, and those impacted by these recent layoffs land on their feet.

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