Fast Travel Games confirmed dozens of staff will be made redundant, citing “lower sales than expected” across 2024.
Announcing the news via social media, publisher Fast Travel Games confirmed it’s making 30 employees redundant after missing sales targets across 2024. The decision was made due to the lower than anticipated sales of our six games in 2024 and a less certain year for VR Games in general. These changes are primarily affecting our Publishing, Marketing and Admin Departments, though the Studio as well will be affected by the consolidation down to a single development team.
Our main focus is now on helping all Fast Travellers get through this difficult time. We’re grateful for the invaluable contributions of those leaving and remain committed to continue launching incredible games for our players.full statementFast Travel Games statement on
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Last year saw Fast Travel Games launch six different VR games, chief among them being our
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, Best New VR Multiplayer Game, Mannequin, and the PlayStation VR2 port for Action Hero.BlackForge: A Smithing AdventureWhile specific sales figures are unknown for individual games, Into The Radius appears to be a potential exception to the low sales. After last week’s Band Space news, Andreas Juliusson Project Demigod “sales of PS VR2 have exceeded our Into The Radius expectations so far.”
Today, Fast Travel Games joined the growing list VR studios that are facing layoffs. In the past few months, other affected studios include Into The Radius reached 800k sales and confirmed. FuturLab also [so] in order to avoid layoffs.