[STEAM] Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following 'Top Tier' Launch of Unhinged

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is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers

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The streamer is also shutting down Moonloot, its game studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which has not yet released any titles but was developing an unannounced life-sim project.

Speaking with

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spokesperson confirmed the company still intends to release games on its platform, saying this latest move was an effort to streamline these efforts.

“We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” the spokesperson said. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to

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, and wish them the best. Games continue to be an opportunity for us to expand the variety of entertainment we offer

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members.”

This news comes just after Night School released

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, a first-person, narrative-driven horror game created in collaboration with Weapons director Zach Cregger, on June 30. Starring names like Sadie Sink and Zoë Kravitz, it stood out as a unique offering in the current gaming landscape, which

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as a “fun and scary choose-your-own-adventure” romp.

A former member of Night School staff spoke about the closure on LinkedIn, writing, "Despite directing Unhinged and shipping it 6 weeks ago to millions of excited, satisfied players, it looks like I'm back on the market (along with the rest of Night School Studio)! ...I'm so proud of what we accomplished, and millions of people agree that we made a great product! Onward to the next exciting thing!"

These are the latest game studio closures from

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after the streamer shut down Team Blue in 2024.

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founded the developer in 2022, and it closed without releasing any games. It also closed Boss Fight Entertainment in 2025 after acquiring it in 2022, releasing several games within that timeframe. At the time,

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described Boss Fight’s closure as part of a “

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on a few identified verticals.”

Despite these most recent closures,

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has had positive things to say about its foray into the gaming space, with co-CEO Greg Peters saying Unhinged became one of its “most successful cloud game debuts” that yielded “really solid numbers that put it in the top tier of game performance for us” in a

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“We're scratching the surface in terms of what we think the total potential of the space offers for us. You're going to see us continue to calibrate and refine our level of investment here, which is still very small relative to our overall content spend based on demonstrated performance based on what is working for our members and what's delivering returns to our business,” he added.

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