Enginefall’s studio Red Rover cuts staff despite millions in backing

Making a game people are actually excited for apparently isn’t enough to dodge the layoff wave hitting the industry right now. Red Rover Interactive, the studio behind Enginefall, has confirmed job cuts across its Oslo and Newcastle offices, and the company isn’t saying how many people are affected.

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In a statement obtained by Game Developer, the studio framed it as part of a restructuring push toward “a more sustainable future,” which is corporate speak for the same story we’ve heard from half the industry this year. To their credit, Red Rover says it’s working with a specialist recruiter to help departing staff land somewhere new.

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Enginefall is a train-hopping survival shooter that borrows the loot-and-extract tension of Escape from Tarkov and the chaos of Rust, then bolts it onto a moving train full of strangers who might help you or gut you for your bag.

The studio insists development itself isn’t slowing down. Enginefall has pulled in millions in investment and racked up hundreds of thousands of Steam wishlists, and Red Rover says the post-launch content pipeline is still very much alive, with more planned for later this year.

Talented people are still losing their jobs to get there, and that’s the bit worth sitting with longer than the wishlist numbers.

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