Godfall Team Counterplay Games Has Seemingly Shut Down

Counterplay Games, PS5 launch game developer Godfallappears to have shut down, according to recent LinkedIn posts reporting layoffs and closures in the gaming industry. Counterplay Games has reportedly shut down along with Toadman Interactive and Freejam, the former of which is best known Immortal: Unchained and the last one is a free PC game called Robocraft.

PlayStation Lifestyle did some more digging and discovered that the studio was “dissolved” last month after working on the project with Jackalyptic Games. “Unfortunately, we were unable to continue our partnership in the new year and CPG was disbanded,” the employee wrote.

Best known as first game confirmed for PS5 on Game rewards In 2019, the final product failed to live up to the initial wave of hype generated by its announcement. WITH Metacritic with a rating of 61, we were slightly less impressed than others, scoring 5/10 in our Godfall PS5 review.

We concluded: “If everything Godfall had to offer was as good as its combat system, we’d be looking at a damn good PS5 launch game.” However, in reality this is the only thing she can boast about. Non-essential extraction system.” , redesigned environments and frustrating mission structure take away from any enjoyment the game has to offer.”

The game later received a PS4 release, taking some of the shine off its initial presentation as a big offering for the current-gen PS5. Were you a fan of Godfall? Mourn the loss of Counterplay Games in the comments below.