PlayerUnknown Productions has introduced that it’s going to making layoffs and halting growth on its early entry recreation Prologue: Go Wayback.
Described by the studio as “a single-player open-world emergent survival roguelike the place each journey is exclusive”, Prologue: Go Wayback was launched on Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer in November 2025 as an early entry title,
Studio founder Brendan Greene – also referred to as PlayerUnknown – has now posted an replace, nevertheless, stating that the studio can now not afford to proceed growth on the sport, and that it has halted all growth because it plans to downsize the staff.
“When PlayerUnknown Productions grew to become an impartial studio in 2021, we launched into a journey to realize an bold imaginative and prescient for the longer term,” Greene’s assertion on X reads.
“Our aim has been to develop expertise that may break the boundaries of scale, which at present restrict how massive digital worlds will be. To realize this, we constructed a analysis staff to develop our Melba expertise and a staff to develop our first sensible utility of our terrain era expertise: Prologue: Go Wayback.
“Sadly I’ve reached the boundaries of how far I can proceed to fund this journey in its present type. Because of this, I’ve made the laborious resolution to restructure the studio. We are going to proceed growing our Melba expertise with a smaller staff, whereas halting additional growth of Go Wayback. Our fast precedence is to help our affected workers to the very best of our skills throughout this tough transition.
“We plan to make Go Wayback accessible free of charge for all future gamers with an upcoming replace. We’re additionally investigating providing gamers who’ve bought the sport on Steam and Epic Video games Retailer a option to obtain a refund. We may have extra particulars on this within the close to future.
“Lastly, I need to thank our group and everybody who has been concerned in supporting our studio’s journey thus far.”
An replace has additionally been posted on the sport’s Steam web page, offering related data however including: “Whereas we hope the studio can return to Go Wayback at a future time limit, proper now it means we will likely be unable to finish our Early Entry plans for the sport.”
