Bithell Games, the studio behind indie classics like Thomas Was Alone, John Wick Hex , and more recently Tron Identity and Tron: Catalyst , has laid off " the majority " of its full-time staff nearly two months after its most recent release, Tron Catalyst.
The news was announced with a statement from Mike Bithell, the studio's namesake and founder, who posted the statement on his personal BlueSky account .
Bithell cites the studio's inability to secure " a new larger scale project " as the reason behind the layoffs, and admits that these layoffs were something the studio anticipated ahead of Tron: Catalyst's release, writing, " It became clear leading up to the release of our most recent game that we were not immune to the challenges faced by many game development teams se