Until Dawn Remake Studio Ballistic Moon Officially Dissolved After Mass Layoffs

Ballistic Moon, the UK-based studio that developed the Until Dawn remake for PS5 and PC, has been formally dissolved following a voluntary strike-off filed with Companies House. According to a notice published in The Gazette, the company was struck off the register on January 21, 2026 and dissolved on February 3, ending the run of a studio that shipped exactly one game in its existence.

The dissolution was essentially a paper formality. By March 2025, the studio had already been described as "effectively closed" following two rounds of layoffs that gutted the team within months of the remake's October 4, 2024 release. The first wave hit in September 2024, just one month before launch, when Ballistic Moon confirmed it was cutting a majority of its staff. "It is with deep regret and a heavy heart that we must make the tough decision to significantly scale down our team to secure the future of our studio," the studio said in a statement at the time. "This comes after our development of Until Dawn for PS5 and PC." A second, quieter round followed in December 2024, leaving another 20 developers without a job. After that, only the founders and possibly a handful of staff remained.

Ballistic Moon was founded by production director Duncan Kershaw, creative director Neil McEwan, and technology director Chris Lamb, all of whom came out of Supermassive Games, the original developer of Until Dawn. VGC reports the studio was founded in 2020, though KitGuru places the founding in 2019. Following the December layoffs, Insider Gaming reported that the owners were actively pitching projects and seeking new funding, but none of those efforts succeeded. The application to formally strike the company off the Companies House register was filed in November 2025.

The Until Dawn remake, built on Unreal Engine 5 and published by PlayStation PC LLC, landed with middling reviews: a Metacritic score of 70 compared to the original 2015 game's 79, a user score of 6.8, and an OpenCritic top critic average of 69 with only 37% of critics recommending it. Steam user reviews were more forgiving at 81% positive. Praise focused on the visual overhaul and additional scenes, while criticism targeted performance issues, camera changes, and a $60 price point that felt steep to anyone who already knew the original. Neither Sony nor Ballistic Moon's leadership has publicly commented on the dissolution.

The closure also dims whatever plans Sony may have had for the franchise. The remake featured a new ending cutscene pointing toward further expansion of the Until Dawn universe, and a film adaptation was released in 2025, scoring 52% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 66% from audiences. With Ballistic Moon gone and the remake underperforming, KitGuru's assessment that the franchise is "going back on ice" is hard to argue with.