Dispatch: how a game about a superhero workplace comedy became 2026's first must-play sleeper hit

When AdHoc Studios announced their newest game, Dispatch, at the Game Awards in 2024, they were on the edge of bankruptcy.

“We announced our game with the big trailer at the ceremony,” one of its founders, Nick Herman, tells me. “We knew how many more months we had. It was not many more months until we were out of money.”