Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following 'Top Tier' Launch of Unhinged
Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.
Netflix is shutting down its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, known for psychological thrillers like Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals. The company is also closing Moonloot, a Finnish studio developing an unannounced life-sim project. Night School's closure comes just after they released Unhinged, a first-person horror game featuring stars Sadie Sink and Zoë Kravitz, on June 30.
A former Night School employee expressed their pride in the team's work on Unhinged, stating that they are now on the job market. Netflix's decision to close these studios is part of a broader effort to streamline their game development efforts and focus on more successful ventures. Despite these closures, Netflix remains optimistic about the future of gaming, with co-CEO Greg Peters praising Unhinged as one of their "most successful cloud game debuts" so far.
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- Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down rockpapershotgun.com
- Netflix closes more game studios as it pulls back on video games polygon.com
- Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File) gamefile.news
- Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts' pcgamer.com
