Compulsion Games, the Canadian game developer behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few, has officially parted ways with Microsoft. After Microsoft confirmed that Compulsion was one of five Xbox studios it was divesting of, Compulsion boss Guillaume Provost has now confirmed it’s a done deal.<\/p>\n
This was hinted at recently when the Steam page for South of Midnight listed Compulsion as the developer and publisher<\/a>. Now, it’s official, with Provost confirming to Games Beat<\/a> that its management team acquired the studio and staff, while Microsoft transferred the developer’s IP back to the studio. <\/p>\n What this means in practice is that if you buy a Steam copy of South of Midnight–one of 2025’s best games–the money goes to Compulsion, not Xbox. Provost said it will take some time before the change gets implemented on other storefronts.<\/p>\n Provost did not disclose the specific terms of the deal, but he said staffers at Compulsion really wanted to stick together.<\/p>\n \u201cI did this deal for the team first and foremost. I asked the team, \u2018Do you want to stay together?\u2019 The team told me we would rather eat rocks and drink gasoline rather than be split up,\u201d Provost said.<\/p>\n Some Compulsion developers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Compulsion Games, the Canadian game developer behind South of Midnight and We Happy Few, has officially parted ways with Microsoft. After Microsoft confirmed that Compulsion was one of five Xbox studios it was divesting of, Compulsion boss Guillaume Provost has now confirmed it’s a done deal. This was hinted at recently when the Steam page…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":87968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87966","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\/87966"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87969,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87966\/revisions\/87969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}