UK-based Bossa Studios, the developer of games including Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread, and I Am Fish, has confirmed the layoff of 19 people at the end of 2023. According to a GamesIndustry report, the cuts represent roughly one-third of Bossa's total number of employees.
The layoffs took place at the end of 2023, and were made mainly among QA and production staff, and employees outside the UK. Bossa Studios co-founder Henrique Olifiers told the site that the layoffs were forced by a "perfect storm of events" leading up to the end of 2023, including the large number of big-budget games that launched in the final quarter of the year—presumably including titles like Starfield, Mortal Kombat 1, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Cities Skylines 2, Alan Wake 2, and Modern Warfare 3, not to mention the continuing impact of Baldur's Gate 3, which arrived in August—as well as increased operating costs and delayed funding for new games.
