{"id":611613,"date":"2026-04-28T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:26:07","slug":"studio-behind-unique-rpgs-shutting-down-after-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/611613\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Behind Unique RPGs Shutting Down After 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s apparently no hope for Spiders<\/a> to survive its current debt restructuring amid parent company Nacon\u2019s insolvency. French outlet Origami reports<\/a> that the court procedures the RPG maker is currently going through are essentially just a \u201cformality\u201d at this point as sources within the 18-year-old Parisian studio scramble to find other jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CSE is organizing, as best it can, the buyback of equipment by employees who wish to do so, and the Spiders staff has chosen to turn tonight\u2019s final weekly drink into a formal tribute to the studio\u2019s eighteen years of existence,\u201d Origami writes. Spiders was one of a number of studios Nacon was trying to find a buyer for as it faces insolvency. A spokesperson for Nacon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Spiders was founded in 2008 by developers who had previously worked at Monte Cristo on\u00a0Silverfall, a top-down fantasy action-RPG for the PlayStation Portable. The studio released a number of smaller, quick-turnaround RPGs and licensed games in the years that followed. It wasn\u2019t until 2016\u2019s Technomancer, a sci-fi game set in a futuristic Mars colony, that the studio\u2019s work began breaking through to a larger audience. It was a poorly-reviewed jank-fest, but it also took the kind of creative swings that more established studios had given up on.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something endearing about The Technomancer,\u201d former Kotaku editor Luke Plunkett wrote at the time<\/a>. \u201cIt starts with that dumb-ass name and runs right through the story and art design to the scope of the whole project. This is the little RPG that could\u2026the more you play\/suffer through this, the more it somehow grows on you. The more you notice, for all the initial similarities this has with other games and its shortcomings in terms of presentation, there\u2019s a lovable French weirdness going on here. What first felt familiar soon starts to\u00a0itch.\u201d<\/p>\n

The studio subsequently moved onto more ambitious and polished games, including 2019\u2019s merchant-core RPG GreedFall and 2022\u2019s French Revolution-inspired Soulslike Steelrising. Unfortunately, Spiders\u2019 latest game, GreedFall 2: The Dying World, stumbled through a rough Early Access launch and failed to live up to fan expectations.<\/p>\n

French video game union Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vid\u00e9o blamed publisher Nacon and its executives for the studio\u2019s recent mismanagement. \u201cTheir disdain for video game production and their incompetence actively sabotaged studios which were viable until their acquisition, and jeopardized projects with a high potential,\u201d it said in a statement released back in March.<\/p>\n

It continued, \u201cThe deterioration of working conditions in the last years, and the creation of new studios with the barely hidden goal of sabotaging existing ones, were already convoluted ways of reducing headcount and they only made matters worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s apparently no hope for Spiders to survive its current debt restructuring amid parent company Nacon\u2019s insolvency. French…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[265538,24641,74],"class_list":["post-611613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-greedfall-the-dying-world","tag-spiders","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}