Jukai Studio, the developer of othe action-horror recreation Stray Souls has introduced its shutdown.
This follows the closure (at the very least in its earlier type) of the sport’s writer Versus Evil.
In line with the announcement made on X (previously Twitter) the sport’s poor reception and the lack of supporting the corporate attributable to poor gross sales had been the foundation trigger behind its closure.
The Builders additionally declare they’ve suffered bullying on-line and authorized motion is being taken towards it.
We hear that the core group of Jukai Studio included solely two builders, whereas the remainder of the work was outsourced.
You may learn the assertion in its entirety under.
After a lot contemplation and in gentle of as we speak’s information that our writer has introduced closure, we have now determined to not delay in informing you that we’re shutting down Jukai Studio.
A few of you could have seen that our web site has not been functioning for a while, and we have now not been as energetic as earlier than. There are a lot of causes for this, however one of many major ones is that we have now fallen sufferer to cyberbullying, obtained a poor reception for our debut mission Stray Souls, and had been fully unable to maintain the corporate due to dangerous gross sales, resulting in the choice having to be made this yr.
We’re conscious that you just had excessive expectations for Stray Souls, however we by no means knowledgeable you that solely two core people, together with contracted personnel, had been engaged on the sport. We did every little thing in our energy to deliver the mission to completion in the absolute best type, however all through the whole length, we, our writer workers, different writer dev groups and our closed ones had been continually attacked by a cyber persecutor, and a few of you, as our neighborhood, had been additionally tormented with undesirable messages and emails. We perceive that you just didn’t want to proceed actively supporting us for the plain causes talked about above. The matter is now within the fingers of our attorneys, so we can’t talk about it any additional, however know that we are going to not abandon it regardless of the studio’s closure.
As soon as once more, we wished to thank all of you who supported us and didn’t quit regardless of the adversities that befell each you and us. We sincerely thank everybody for believing in us. Nobody from Jukai Studio has been laid off as a result of we by no means functioned as a big company, and collectively we determined that every one among us will go their separate means.
Jukai Studio consisted of a very superb and proficient group of people that believed within the success of the mission till the top. Regardless of this unhappy information, Stray Souls stays in your fingers. In conclusion, we need to add that this yr has been very troublesome not just for us, and we hope that 2024 shall be a yr of optimistic adjustments on the earth of recreation improvement. Thanks to everybody who supported us.
Stray Souls is at the moment out there for PC through Steam, the place It at the moment has “largely unfavorable” evaluations, with gamers criticizing the sport mechanics, story, and several other bugs.
This isn’t the primary studio to shut just lately because of the poor reception of its recreation. The identical occurred to The Day Earlier than developer Fntastic, albeit issues would not look fairly as dangerous right here.
For now, it seems that Stray Souls is staying out there on Steam for many who need to buy it and play it, regardless of the closure of the studio that created it.