Indie writer Devolver Digital has reduce employees at Reigns developer Nerial by 40 per cent.
In its 2024 Monetary 12 months report, the corporate revealed that it had made layoffs on the studio to handle “points” with a few of its latest releases. On the time of writing, Nerial boasts 13 members of employees on LinkedIn, nevertheless it’s unclear if that is earlier than or after the layoffs have taken place.
Reigns has revamped $20 million in income thus far.
Devolver has additionally introduced that Polish developer Artificer had its workforce reduce by over 50 per cent again in early 2024, with a brand new greenlighting processs carried out on the studio so it creates “initiatives higher fitted to present market circumstances and gamer tendencies”. In the meantime, publishing labels Good Shepherd and Large Fan has laid off over 50 per cent of its employees throughout 2024.
General, Devolver has misplaced over 30 members of employees between 2023 and 2024.
The corporate additionally supplied some updates on how its steady of video games have been performing. Cult of the Lamb has revamped 90 million in lifetime income, whereas Astroneer has exceeded $80 million. The Gungeon sequence has revamped $40 million and has shifted over 5 million copies thus far; greater than 500,000 of these have been offered in March 2025.
Devolver can also be lowering its funding in third-party titles; again in 2022, the agency was spending, on common, $2.99 million on these video games, however that is set to dip to $1.73 million in 2025 and $1.04 million in 2026.
