Lince Works, the studio behind the Aragami franchise, has introduced that it’s going to shut down subsequent month.
The Barcelona, Spain-based studio, which was based in 2014, will finish improvement on all of its tasks on account of closing its doorways in April, as reported by Gematsu. The studio cites unfavorable “financial context” as the rationale it is shutting down after 9 years of improvement, primarily creating 2016’s Aragami, its Dusk DLC, and 2021’s Aragami 2.
Here is the studio’s assertion on its closing, in full:
We’ve some essential information to share with you. It’s with deep remorse that we’ve got to announce that Lince Works will successfully cease the event of latest tasks indefinitely, beginning this April.
We’ve been fortunate sufficient to work on what we love for the previous 9 years, pouring our hearts and souls into creating immersive and entertaining video games so that you can get pleasure from, and we’re so happy with what we’ve got achieved.
However sadly, we’ve got come to the tip of our journey.
The final couple of years have been significantly troublesome as we shifted in the direction of the event of latest IPs and a brand new course for the corporate. We had been formidable about what we needed to realize as a studio, however sadly, though we made good progress, the financial context was not favorable and we ran out of time.
It breaks our hearts to know that each one the work we’ve got achieved for the previous 12 months will in the end not come to a completion.
We are going to all the time be grateful to our group and gamers all over the world. Your loyalty and fervour for our video games have been our driving drive, and we can’t thanks sufficient for the invaluable help you may have proven us all through these years.
We need to guarantee you that Aragami and Aragami 2 will stay accessible throughout all platforms and retailer fronts and the web co-op will likely be accessible.
We’d additionally like to precise our appreciation to our unbelievable staff, who’ve labored so onerous on bringing our video games to life. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we’ve got to separate our methods, however we all know that they may proceed to carry their expertise and fervour to the business sooner or later. We are going to do our greatest to assist them discover one of the best place to proceed their profession.
Though we could also be closing our doorways, the recollections and experiences shared with the staff and also you, our followers, will stay eternally.
Thanks for being a part of our journey and for making it an unforgettable one.
[Source: Gematsu]
