Developer Crytek has immediately introduced that the long-awaited Crysis 4 has been put “on maintain” because it lays off roughly 60 workers members. Crysis 4 was introduced again in January of 2022, nearly a decade after Crysis 3 was launched.
The announcement was made through the corporate’s X web page the place it claimed that Crytek was not resistant to “advanced, unfavourable market dynamics.”
“It pains us vastly to share immediately that we should lay off an estimated 15% of our round 400 staff,” says the put up. “The layoffs have an effect on improvement groups and shared companies. This has not been a simple determination to make, as we deeply admire the arduous work of our gifted groups.”
— Crytek (@Crytek) February 12, 2025
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I used to be really fairly shocked to study that Crytek was using so many individuals.
In line with Crytek, they’ve been engaged on “attempting to shift builders over to Hunt: Showdown 1896.”
“Whereas Hunt: Showdown 1896 remains to be rising, Crytek can’t proceed as earlier than and stay financially sustainable,” continues the assertion. “Even after ongoing efforts to cut back prices and lower working bills, we have now decided that lays are inevitable to maneuver ahead.”
Crytek are promising to help affected staff with severance packages and profession help companies.
Crytek appears to be focusing closely on Hunt: Showdown 1896 because it seems to be the one factor presently supporting your entire studio and its now 340 staff. The corporate states that it nonetheless “firmly believes in the way forward for Crytek” and that “With Hunt: Showdown 1896, we have now a really robust gaming service.” They are saying they intend on increasing the sport additional with extra content material.
To place the sport into extra context, Hunt: Showdown 1896 has benefited from a small resurgence since December of 2024 when Put up Malone’s Homicide Circus was added. Since then the sport has constantly been bringing in 20,000 concurrent gamers on Steam each day.
Whereas these numbers are good, I do discover it arduous to consider it’s sufficient to proceed supporting Crytek’s worker depend. Arrowhead Sport Studios, who constructed and run Helldivers 2, for instance, has round 100+ staff and far increased participant counts. Having mentioned that, Helldivers 2 is one thing of an uncommon case.
To Crytek’s credit score, Hunt: Showdown 1896 has continued on a gradual, regular upward trajectory since releasing in 2019 the place it sometimes solely noticed participant counts within the low 1000’s. Trying on the charts, it seems to have hit its stride in 2021, and even managed to hit 60,000+ concurrent gamers in August of 2024. Since 2021 although, the general progress has remained roughly static. If that’s the case, will the sport ever develop sufficient to let Crytek do anything, or will they now be caught engaged on Hunt: Showdown for the foreseeable future, unable to develop sufficient to provide them house to work on different initiatives?
If there’s any excellent news it’s that Crysis 4 has not be cancelled. The wording “on maintain’ gives at the very least some small hope that the sport would possibly nonetheless be revived and are available to market.
