{"id":87568,"date":"2026-08-13T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87568"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:37:04","slug":"night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87568","title":{"rendered":"Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following &#8216;Top Tier&#8217; Launch of Unhinged"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/oxenfree\">Oxenfree<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/oxenfree-2-lost-signals-review\">Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The streamer is also shutting down Moonloot, its game studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which has not yet released any titles but was developing an unannounced life-sim project. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/netflix-closes-night-school-moonloot\">GameFile<\/a>, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed the company still intends to release games on its platform, saying this latest move was an effort to streamline these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we\u2019re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best. Games continue to be an opportunity for us to expand the variety of entertainment we offer Netflix members.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"screens-oxenfree\" data-value=\"screens-oxenfree\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>This news comes just after Night School released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/unhinged-netflix\">Unhinged<\/a>, a first-person, narrative-driven horror game created in collaboration with Weapons director Zach Cregger, on June 30. Starring names like Sadie Sink and Zo\u00eb Kravitz, it stood out as a unique offering in the current gaming landscape, which <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/opinion\/unhinged-netflix-game-scary-choose-your-own-adventure-1236799598\/\">reviewers<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals. The streamer is also shutting down Moonloot, its game studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which has not yet released any titles but was developing an unannounced life-sim project. Speaking with GameFile, a Netflix&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":87570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87572,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions\/87572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}