Supermassive Games lays off more than 70 staff

More than 70 people have left Supermassive Games in October 2026, two months after the horror studio said it planned redundancies.

The studio announced the layoff plans in August. It said at the time that the cuts were necessary to ensure sustainability, Video Games Chronicle.

The news became public through a LinkedIn post by Frank Tindle, the studio's IT and facilities director. The post was spotted by Eurogamer, Eurogamer.

Tindle wrote that after 16 years his own departure was official. He said more than 70 people were leaving with him across developers, artists, producers, QA and operations. QA stands for quality assurance, the testing work that finds faults before a game reaches players.

It is a broad cut. It touches the people who build the game, the people who shape how it looks and sounds, the people who organise the schedule, and the people who support the office itself. Short posts like this are often how redundancies in games become public.

This is the third round of cuts at the studio in less than three years. Supermassive cut roughly 90 roles in February 2024. It then cut 36 roles in July 2025, God is a Geek.

That July 2025 round had a direct effect on production. The studio moved the release of Directive 8020, its next science-fiction horror game, from October 2025 to May 2026.

There has also been change at the top. Robert Henrysson joined as chief executive in January 2024 and stepped down in June 2026.

Supermassive is a BAFTA-winning studio. It is best known for story-led horror in which player choices decide who lives. That run includes Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology and The Quarry.

Its latest release is Little Nightmares III. It is currently working on Directive 8020.

For players, those titles will be familiar even if the business behind them is not. For the people leaving, many with years at the studio, October brings an abrupt end.