Striking Distance Studios, the Krafton-owned game studio that made 2022’s The Callisto Protocol and 2024’s Redacted, has undergone a new round of layoffs. This follows on from a previous round of cuts in 2023.
In a statement to GameSpot, Striking Distance confirmed that it has “reduced the size of its team” in an effort to “remain agile.” The statement also stressed that the cuts were part of a drive to establish a “sustainable environment” at the studio for the “current stage of development on future projects.”
Striking Distance does not have any upcoming games that have been announced, but the statement confirmed that the team “remains operational” and that the layoffs “will not impact any planned ongoing support.”
“No further changes are planned at this time,” Striking Distance said to close out its statement.
In terms of the scope of the cuts, that remains unknown, but 80 Level discovered that anaffected worker said “most of the devs were laid off.”
Striking Distance has zero open positions listed on its careers page.
The Callisto Protocol was released in 2022 and was originally planned to be a PUBG spin-off before those plans were scuttled and it became its own thing. The game wasn’t a critical or commercial hit, however. Striking Distance followed it up with October 2024’s Redacted, which is set in the same sci-fi horror universe as The Callisto Protocol. It didn’t exactly light it up, either, in terms of review scores or sales–it achieved a peak concurrent player figure of 168 on Steam.
As for what’s next, it’s been reported that Striking Distance is working on a third-person AAA multiplayer game that runs on Unreal Engine 5.
Striking Distance was founded by Glen Schofield, who is best known for his work on the Dead Space and Call of Duty franchises. Schofield left the company in 2023 and is hyping up a mysterious project.
Layoffs in the video game industry have been a repeated event in the past few years, and the unfortunate trend has continued so far in 2025, with layoffs impacting the Marvel Rivals US team, Crytek, and BioWare, among others.
