Folks Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of Conflict: Judgement, introduced Monday that its ending growth on two of its upcoming video games as a consequence of points with its writer and an incapacity to safe funding to proceed growth. As a part of this resolution, Folks Can Fly can be pressured “considerably regroup” and “scale down [its] groups,” the studio’s CEO Sebastian Wojciechowksi shared in a press release on LinkedIn.
The assertion would not elaborate on what number of employees can be impacted by the cuts, however does name out Undertaking Gemini and Undertaking Bifrost as the 2 video games being cancelled. Folks Can Fly made the choice to close down Gemini as a result of the sport’s writer failed to offer a publishing settlement and did not talk “its willingness to proceed or terminate the Gemini mission.” With out that publishing deal or the funds to proceed engaged on Bifrost — a self-published VR sport — the studio was pressured to cancel it, too.
This is not the primary time Folks Can Fly has shut down a mission or made cuts to its groups. In December 2024, the studio introduced that it was ending growth on a sport referred to as Undertaking Victoria and likewise lowering the variety of folks engaged on Bifrost. In that very same announcement, Folks Can Fly additionally revealed that Sq. Enix was publishing Gemini.
Folks Can Fly final labored with Sq. Enix to publish Outriders, considerably of a minor cult hit now, however not a industrial success at launch. Even with the cuts and cancelled video games, the studio nonetheless has a number of upcoming initiatives within the works, together with Undertaking Delta, which Folks Can Fly is creating for Sony and Gears of Conflict: E-Day, which the studio is co-developing with Xbox studio The Coalition.
