Indie Publisher Humble Games Lays Off Whole Team

Indie game publisher Humble Games has reportedly effectively shut down, with the indie publisher laying off its entire team today.

"Well friends, me and the entirety of Humble Games was laid off this morning," Emilee Kieffer, Senior QA at Humble Games, wrote on X/Twitter.

In the original X/Twitter thread, Kieffer said that the layoffs included about 40 people. They further clarified that the layoffs only affected Humble Games, not Humble Bundle, as the two are different teams. Humble Games is owned by IGN's parent company, Ziff Davis, while the Bundle division is owned by IGN.

Humble Games is the publisher behind titles such as SIGNALIS, Temtem, and Coral Island, and was signed to other upcoming games such as Billie Bust Up, Totemic, and Never Alone II. The fate of those games is currently unclear. 

The massive July 2024 layoffs aren't the studio's first. Back in November 2023, Humble Games confirmed that they laid off several employees.