Tripwire Interactive laid off 36 employees, leaving roughly 40-50 staff at the studio. The layoffs came less than a week after the company expanded its Tripwire Presents publishing division to offer scaled publishing support to independent developers.
The studio said the cuts were "certainly not an easy decision, but unfortunately a necessary one for the organization." Tripwire stated it remains focused on internal projects including active development of Maneater 2, ongoing work on Killing Floor 3, and publishing efforts under the Tripwire Presents label.
Maneater 2 was announced in September, five years after the original game's release. Killing Floor 3 launched in 2025 but holds mixed user reviews on Steam. Its concurrent player count on the platform is a small fraction of its 2016 predecessor's numbers.