The Wolf Among Us 2 still in production, Telltale insists after layoffs

Game is projected to be released in 2024

Marco Wutz | Oct 6, 2023

The Wolf Among Us 2 still in production, Telltale insists after layoffs /

Telltale has confirmed claims by a former employee that substantial layoffs took place at the studio back in September 2023 in a statement made to Eurogamer.

Citing the difficult market conditions it’s currently facing, the studio stated: “We did not take this action lightly, and our commitment to storytelling and finding new ways to do so remains the same. We are grateful to everyone for their dedication along this journey, and we are working to support everyone impacted.”

Telltale’s biggest current project is The Wolf Among Us 2, which was recently delayed to 2024. The company insisted that the development of this game and other titles currently in production won’t be impacted by these measures: “All projects currently in development are still in production and we have no further updates at this time.”

The Wolf Among Us 2 artwork. — Telltale's future hopes are pinned on The Wolf Among Us 2 / Telltale

The original Telltale closed down in 2018 and was then resurrected by a group of investors with some of the original developers joining the project and the studio’s IP being purchased as well.

The Wolf Among Us was one of the biggest hits of the old Telltale, being released between 2013 and 2014 in five episodes. The Wolf Among Us 2 was originally announced in 2017, but never finished due to the studio’s shutdown. After the resurrection of Telltale in 2019, the title was again announced to be in production. The creator of the comic series the game is based on recently surrendered the entire IP to the public domain.

Telltale’s latest release, The Expanse: A Telltale Series, received “generally favorable” reviews according to Metacritic, reaching a critic score of 76, though user score is a bit lower. You can read more about the game in our own The Expanse: A Telltale Series review.

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Published Oct 6, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg