Immortals of Aveum

Launched Aug 22, 2023 to mixed-average reviews with notable PC performance problems; the first patch landed three days later. Updates came steadily through 2023 (including the Nov 16 Echollector update adding New Game+, Grand Magnus difficulty, Shatterfanes endgame content, and a free demo) and into 2024 with HDR and AMD FSR 3 — the first game to ship FSR 3 on PS5/Xbox Series X|S. But the game sold poorly against a crowded window (Starfield, Armored Core VI); CEO Bret Robbins confirmed ~40 people (45% of staff) were laid off Sept 14, 2023, and most remaining staff (~30) were furloughed in April 2024. The last named patch was the June 7, 2024 PC update (1.0.6.5); nothing substantive has shipped since, and key staff later departed the studio entirely.

• Update #1 shipped Aug 25, 2023 — three days after launch — with Updates #2–#4 following in the first month, and New Game+ issues were hotfixed within days of the Nov 16 Echollector update (Nov 21 and Dec 11 patches).
• Delivered player-requested content throughout: New Game+, Grand Magnus difficulty, free trial/demo, mouse-smoothing toggle, and the Echollector endgame update — all explicitly framed as responses to feedback.
• Shipped genuinely new tech post-launch: AMD FSR 3 with frame generation on PS5/Xbox Series X|S (first game to do so) and HDR on consoles and PC via patches 1.0.6.3/1.0.6.4 in spring 2024.
• Support ended abruptly when the studio collapsed: 45% laid off Sept 2023, majority of the remainder furloughed April 2024, and no named patch since June 7, 2024 — the game remains on sale with no further maintenance.