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Catherine Lewis

Classic RPG developer that helped shape The Witcher reportedly closes as two veteran devs appear to jump ship to their own new indie studio

A screenshot of a character with a sword fighting a dragon in Gothic 2.

Classic German game dev studio Piranha Bytes, which is arguably best known for its iconic RPG series Gothic, has reportedly closed its doors months after revealing that it was in "a difficult situation."

That's according to Polish news outlet CD-Action, which reports that an anonymous Piranha Bytes employee tells the site that the studio ceased its operations at the end of last month. This would mean that it closed around five months after the studio put out a statement on Twitter acknowledging the "news about us circulating right now," at which point it asked fans, "Don't write us off yet!"

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