Supermassive Games has announced that they’ve decided to delay Directive 8020: A Dark Pictures Game, as well as the redundancy of some of their team.

On their X account, Supermassive Games shared the sad news that they have made up to 36 roles redundant, as follows:

“The games industry remains a challenging and ever-evolving environment. As we adapt our team structure to better align with the changes, we’ve had to make the very difficult decision to begin a redundancy consultation process […] This decision was not taken lightly, and we know this will be an incredibly difficult time for everyone. Our absolute priority will be to offer full support to all of those affected.”

The team also shared that they are delaying Directive 8020 into the first half of 2026, but noted that there will be no impact on Little Nightmares III, which is still scheduled to release on October 10th.