May 3, 2026 by Walter Xavier

Survios – the LA studio behind Alien: Rogue Incursion and CREED: Rise to Glory – has reportedly laid off most of its staff and is on the verge of shutting down, as reported by Push Square. Multiple employees confirmed the news via LinkedIn, with combat designer Dylan Ralston stating the studio will be “essentially shuttered” and all “team members responsible for development [are] being let go.” Senior game designer Alissa Smith backed that up, confirming she and “the majority of the development team was impacted by layoffs at Survios” – while senior technical sound designer Tim Schumann added, grimly, that he “saw this coming a while ago.”

Survios has been one of VR’s more prominent names since its founding in 2013, building a portfolio across both PSVR and PSVR2 that includes Sprint Vector, Raw Data, and its two highest-profile releases in CREED: Rise to Glory and Alien: Rogue Incursion. The latter – which landed a 74 on Metacritic and a 7/10 from Push Square – was explicitly pitched as “Part One” at launch, meaning any planned sequel is now almost certainly dead in the water. The closure follows a broader wave of studio shutdowns hitting the industry, and more specifically mirrors the recent mass layoffs at Polyarc – developers of the beloved Moss games – who were unable to secure funding following the cancellation of a major project.

Honestly, this is becoming a deeply worrying pattern for PSVR2 owners. Two of the headset’s most respected developers – Survios and Polyarc – have now effectively collapsed within a short window of each other, and it raises serious questions about whether Sony is doing enough to sustain the ecosystem it launched. The human cost here is real: dozens of developers, many with years of VR specialisation behind them, are now out of work. Sony’s ongoing third-party studio partnerships show the platform holder is still investing in development relationships – but PSVR2 specifically keeps losing the studios that were building its library, and that’s a problem no amount of corporate optimism papers over.

Does Survios’ reported closure change your confidence in PSVR2’s future – and are you still holding out hope for an Alien: Rogue Incursion sequel? Sound off in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more breaking gaming news and PlayStation coverage.