Reigns developer Nerial closes following "significant trading losses" over past two years Parent company Devolver retains rights to existing games; recent financial report indicates studio lost over £800,000 in 2025 and nearly £1 million in 2024 Reigns and Card Shark developer Nerial has announced its closure as it enters "hibernation mode." In a statement on social media, studio founders CEO Tamara Alliot and creative director François Alliot said that "after 13 years and 11 published games, we have decided together with our partners at Devolver to end development and the studio." Devolver acquired Nerial in 2021. Last year, the team was reduced by 40% to "address issues around recent releases and to better shape the team for future releases." François told Kotaku that Devolver will retain the rights to Nerial's existing catalogue, and emphasised that they remain "very good friends." "Having been bought by Devolver, you become an internal studio, so that means each of our games needs to be a Devolver game," he noted. "And Devolver needs to publish all Nerial games, which it did match very well for Reigns, it did match very well for Card Shark, for example. Nerial lost over £800,000 in 2025 and nearly £1 million in 2024.
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