Survios, one of VR\u2019s most senior game studios and developer behind Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024), is reportedly shutting down, as a majority of staff have been laid off.<\/p>\n
While Survios hasn\u2019t publicly announced the shutdown at the time of this writing, the reduction in headcount appears to be drastic enough to all but confirm that the VR veteran studio is closing up shop.<\/p>\n
Dylan Ralston, previously a Combat Designer at Survios, says in a LinkedIn post<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday the studio is \u201cessentially shuttered, with all of the team members responsible for development being let go, including myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Tim Schumann, Senior Technical Sound Designer at Survios, also maintains <\/a>the studio is shutting down.<\/p>\n Survios released over a dozen games since its founding in 2013, which started with breakout co-cop combat game\u00a0Raw Data (2016), notably one of the first VR games to pass $1 million in revenue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As a pioneer of the space, Survios explored a variety of genres, some of which were based on its own IP, including foot racing game\u00a0Sprint Vector (2018), immersive song-making game Electronauts (2018), and ship-based battle arena Battlewake (2019).<\/p>\n The studio also released a number of VR games based on popular franchises and IPs, including\u00a0boxing game Creed: Rise to Glory (2018), narrative-driven adventure Westworld Awakening (2019), zombie shooter\u00a0The Walking Dead: Onslaught (2020), puzzle game Puzzle Bobble VR: Vacation Odyssey (2021), an upgraded re-release with\u00a0Creed: Rise to Glory \u2013 Championship Edition (2023),\u00a0and Alien franchise shooter Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024).<\/p>\n In late 2024, Survios announced the sequel to\u00a0Alien: Rogue Incursion\u00a0<\/a>was already in development, which was slated to resolve the game\u2019s cliffhanger while offering up what the studio called \u201cdeadlier enemies and more difficult challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n Shortly after the game\u2019s release on Quest 3 in early 2025, Survios paused work on the sequel to release\u00a0a flatscreen version of the game<\/a>, which saw a measure of success across console and PC. Worryingly enough, the studio hasn\u2019t publicly spoke about the game\u2019s sequel, even after launch of the flatscreen adaptation.<\/p>\n This follows a broader industry trend of studio shutdowns and mass layoffs, the largest of which was Meta\u2019s revelation earlier this year it was\u00a0shutting down a number of internal VR studios<\/a>\u00a0amid a wider shift in its Reality Labs XR division to instead focus on AI and smart glasses.<\/p>\n Following Meta\u2019s pivot, a reported number of in-progress VR games have been cancelled, including as an unannounced\u00a0Batman: Arkham Shadow\u00a0sequel<\/a>\u00a0from Meta\u2019s Sanzaru Games, an unannounced\u00a0Harry Potter VR game for Quest<\/a>\u00a0from Skydance Games, and a\u00a0major project from\u00a0Moss\u00a0developers Polyarc<\/a>.<\/p>\n More recently, social VR platform\u00a0Rec Room, once valued at $3.5 billion, announced it will be\u00a0shutting down in June<\/a>. Additionally, Meta says its own social VR platform, Horizon Worlds, will be focusing \u201calmost exclusively\u201d on mobile in the future<\/a>\u00a0as Quest players will no longer have access to future content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Survios, one of VR\u2019s most senior game studios and developer behind Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024), is reportedly shutting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-937044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116516204501743876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}