Employees LinkedIn posts suggest that Survios, the developer of nine VR games over the course of the past decade including Alien: Rogue Incursion, has laid off much of its staff.
Survios’ first VR game was a sci-fi action shooter for the HTC Vive in 2016, called Raw Data, considered one of the headset’s best launch-window titles and one of the first truly great action VR shooters. After two more original IP VR titles over the following two years, Sprint Vector and Electronauts, the studio secured major licensed VR titles, including Creed: Rise to Glory and Alien: Rogue Incursion.
- Raw Data (2016): a sci-fi action wave shooter where you infiltrate a dystopian corporation and fight off hordes of their killer androids using both firearms and energy katanas.
- Sprint Vector (2018): a competitive racing platformer, one of the first major VR titles to use arm-swinging locomotion for faced-paced movement.
- Electronauts (2018): a gamified music creation sandbox that makes you feel like a DJ, a truly made-for-VR take on the music game genre.
- Creed: Rise to Glory (2018): the studio’s first major IP title, a boxing game in the Rocky universe with both a cinematic campaign and PvP multiplayer.
- Westworld Awakening (2019): a narrative-driven stealth horror game based on the HBO sci-fi series wherein you solve puzzles and hide from a killer host.
- Battlewake (2019): a VR naval combat game where you act as a mythical pirate lord, directly interacting with the ship’s wheel and aiming cannons while casting elemental magic like whirlpools and the kraken to take on enemies.
- The Walking Dead: Onslaught (2020): the “other” Walking Dead VR game, Onslaught was both overshadowed by Saints & Sinners and considered the weakest of Survios’ catalog.
- Puzzle Bobble VR (2021): a VR take on the classic arcade game Puzzle Bobble, adapted to 3D and first person.
- Alien: Rogue Incursion (2024): the studio’s biggest, and perhaps final, title, a singleplayer action-horror survival game where you play as a Colonial Marine to take on Xenomorphs.
According to multiple posts from employees on LinkedIn, the studio has now undergone sweeping layoffs that could effectively halt its operations.
“I was informed today that Survios as it currently stands will be essentially shuttered,” wrote one combat designer. A senior game designer confirmed that “the majority of the development team” had been affected, while another employee suggested the cuts were not entirely unexpected.
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The reported downsizing follows efforts by Survios to expand beyond its VR roots. In 2025, the studio launched an expanded version of Alien: Rogue Incursion across PC and consoles, in an effort clearly intended to diversify revenue streams.
The VR version had recently claimed the top spot on Sony’s PlayStation VR2 sales charts as recently as February, while Creed: Rise to Glory had sold over a million copies as far back as 2021, and remained a consistent presence on sales charts month after month. Despite these strong indicators of performance and the company’s move into traditional platforms, the studio has apparently failed to maintain stability.
Survios has not publicly commented on the situation, and the full scope of the layoffs remains uncertain.
