The Bandai Namco-published Unknown 9: Awakening was launched final month on PS5 and PS4, and as is unfortunately commonplace nowadays, developer Reflector Leisure has since confirmed a spherical of layoffs. The selections will have an effect on 18% of workers “who aren’t assigned to roles that our lively initiatives require”.
The information broke on Bluesky, with builders impacted spreading the phrase on LinkedIn. Reflector, whose complete headcount is “between 50 and 200”, confirmed the choice in a submit on its web site. It famous: “We’re doing all we will to assist [affected staff] by means of this tough time, offering them with severance packages and entry to medical, emotional, and profession planning help.”
We gave Unknown 9 a 7 in our overview, praising its voice appearing expertise and robust writing. Nonetheless, we weren’t alone in noting the restricted enemy selection and predictable stage design. It appears we favored it greater than most, with the sport settling at a reasonably dire 59 on Metacritic. At the very least on Steam, the sport did not handle to interrupt 300 concurrents at launch, so we won’t think about it set the world on hearth by way of gross sales, both, regardless of a multi-platform launch on Xbox and PC.