Horror Game Studio Shuts Down Due To Cyberattacks, Poor Sales
Just two months after the third-person action-horror game Stray Souls came out, developer Jukai Studio abruptly shuttered its doors, citing myriad issues including poor game sales and multiple cyberattacks from an unknown perpetrator.The developer took to X/Twitter on December 22 to announce the sudden closure. Part of the problem, Jukai Studio said, was Stray Souls’ abysmal reception and sales, which made the team “completely unable to sustain the company.”
Stray Souls, the studio’s debut project about a man uncovering the secrets of a haunted town, launched on October 25 to scathing reviews on Metacritic and OpenCritic. Despite just two core folks and several contracted individuals working on the game, according to Jukai Studio, things were ultimately too untenable to continue as is, particularly because of incessant cyberattacks.
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Kotaku reached out to Jukai Studio and Versus Evil for comment.
Both Jukai Studio and Versus Evil recently thanked everyone who supported them over the years. “We hope that 2024 will be a year of positive changes in the world of game development,” Jukai Studio said. I hope so, too, especially as multiple individual developers were fired last year and an bevy of studios closed up. It was truly a devastatingly tumultuous year for the games industry.
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