Metro Awakening Studio Vertigo Games Amsterdam Shuts Down

Vertigo Games Amsterdam, the workforce behind 2024’s Metro Awakening, has been shut down in line with an announcement from Vertigo Games CEO Richard Stitselaar.

Vertigo Games was, till now, comprised of two totally different studios: Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The Amsterdam workforce was previously Force Field Entertainment earlier than turning into Vertigo Games Amsterdam in 2021.

This workforce had been collectively since 2015 with a portfolio together with the next video games and apps:

Metro Awakening (2024)

Easily Vertigo Games Amsterdam’s highest profile title, Awakening was one in every of a number of deliberate VR titles in partnership with Deep Silver and Oculus Studios. Meta introduced this deal at Meta Connect in 2021. The complete of Vertigo Games was acquired by Koch Media, additionally the father or mother firm of Deep Silver, in 2020.

We reviewed Metro Awakening, saying “Vertigo Games has once again delivered a mesmerizing VR gaming experience. One that serves as a testament to the studio’s proven record of creating adventures geared to provide atmospheric immersion and deep storytelling.”

Metro Awakening Review: A Mesmerizing Tale of Survival in Moscow’s Dark Underworld

Go deep underground into the Metro and expertise the dystopian way forward for a post-nuclear apocalyptic Russia in Metro Awakening.

Time Stall (2019)

Time Stall is a time-manipulated physics primarily based puzzle sport printed by Oculus Studios.

National Geographic: Explore VR (2019)

Based on the now Disney-owned firm, Explore casts the participant as a photographer despatched to doc and {photograph} Antarctica and Machu Picchu, Peru for National Geographic journal.

Anne Frank House VR (2018)

Anne Frank House is an academic app exploring the lifetime of Anne Frank, a younger Jewish lady who hid within the annex of an previous workplace constructing in Amsterdam along with her household for two years throughout the Second World War. It stays the most effective historic apps in VR and continues to be accessible totally free.

Coaster Combat (2017)

Originally a Samsung Gear & later Oculus Go VR title, this on rails goal shooter was ported to Quest in 2020.

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Landfall (2017)

Landfall was a tactical shooter for Oculus Rift that has since been delisted.

Vertigo Games Rotterdam, the remaining studio, is the workforce behind the Arizona Sunshine video games, The seventh Guest VR, After The Fall, Skyworld & Skyworld: Kingdom Brawl, and lately printed Maze Theory’s Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow. At the time of this text, there isn’t any phrase on if the Rotterdam workforce has been affected.

This continues a tough 2026 of layoffs and studio closures within the VR ecosystem following Meta shuttering most of its first-party studios, the closures of two nDreams studios, layoffs at Polyarc Games, Cloudhead Games, Mighty Coconut, and Kluge Interactive, and Rec Room shutting down. Also, the aforementioned Maze Theory is presently in administration within the UK, a course of meant to doubtlessly rescue a failing enterprise.