Reports are emerging of staff at Armor Games’ publishing division being laid off, and some staff are suggesting that the entire publishing department of the company has been let go.
Speaking on X (formerly Twitter), senior producer Michelle Lega said yesterday that she had been laid off and that the studio’s team would “all be looking for jobs soon”, suggesting that nobody at Armor Games has kept their jobs in this latest layoff wave.
Several other Armor Games employees have corroborated the reports of layoffs, suggesting that at the very least, the studio has undergone a fairly severe “restructuring”, as Humble Games would likely call it.
Naturally, Armor Games itself hasn’t issued any kind of official statement regarding the layoffs at its publishing department, although with reports from employees piling up, it might not be long before we hear something from the studio.
It’s not exactly clear what’s going to happen to Armor Games’ published titles, which include the likes of cozy woodland management sim Bear and Breakfast, escape room adventure game The Tartarus Key, and black-and-white RPG In Stars and Time, among others.
Assuming that Armor Games’ publishing department has shut down, it wouldn’t be the first indie studio to undergo mass layoffs in the last few months. There’s the aforementioned Humble Games, of course, which has supposedly completely shut down, and other indie companies like Palia developer Singularity 6 and I Am Bread studio Bossa have also been hit by layoffs.
These layoffs and closures come as part of a wider industry trend that has also seen major AAA studios like Bungie, EA, and Microsoft affected, although in a lot of cases, that hasn’t stopped those companies either keeping their CEOs in place or paying out staggering amounts of money to their shareholders.
We’ll have to wait and see what happens next in the case of Armor Games. We’ve reached out to Armor for comment and will update this story as soon as we hear anything back.
