People Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of Struggle: Judgement, introduced Monday that its ending development on two of its upcoming games as a consequence of points with its writer and an lack of ability to safe funding to proceed growth. As a part of this resolution, People Can Fly shall be compelled “considerably regroup” and “scale down [its] groups,” the studio’s CEO Sebastian Wojciechowksi shared in a statement on LinkedIn.

The assertion would not elaborate on what number of workers shall be impacted by the cuts, however does name out Mission Gemini and Mission Bifrost because the two games being cancelled. People Can Fly made the choice to close down Gemini as a result of the sport’s writer failed to supply a publishing settlement and did not talk “its willingness to proceed or terminate the Gemini undertaking.” With out that publishing deal or the funds to proceed engaged on Bifrost — a self-published VR recreation — the studio was compelled to cancel it, too.

This is not the primary time People Can Fly has shut down a undertaking or made cuts to its groups. In December 2024, the studio announced that it was ending growth on a recreation known as Mission Victoria and additionally decreasing the variety of folks engaged on Bifrost. In that very same announcement, People Can Fly additionally revealed that Sq. Enix was publishing Gemini.

People Can Fly final labored with Sq. Enix to publish Outriders, considerably of a minor cult hit now, however not a commercial success at launch. Even with the cuts and cancelled games, the studio nonetheless has a number of upcoming initiatives within the works, together with Project Delta, which People Can Fly is creating for Sony and Gears of Struggle: E-Day, which the studio is co-developing with Xbox studio The Coalition.