Days Gone developer Bend Studio rumored to have canceled multiple unannounced projects

Sony’s Bend Studio, the team behind 2019’s Days Gone, has found itself in the rumor mill with claims that numerous unannounced projects linked to the studio have been cancelled or shelved indefinitely.

This news comes from the LinkedIn profile of a former employee, Jacob Fieth, who worked at Bend Studio between 2019 and June 2025. In his LinkedIn experience, Fieth mentioned “multiple cancelled/unannounced projects,” suggesting that the studio had been working on a few titles that will never see the light of day.

Fieth was a veteran at Bend Studio, as he “created and iterated on Open World Events and Missions, prototyped Open World Events, Puzzles and Systems, and created layouts for various POIs in the Open World (2D and 3D layouts).” 

Fieth also contributed to submitting design documents, collaborating with animators and programmers to develop in-game cinematics, and refining player traversal mechanics. It’s likely from the above information that the projects Feith was involved in had reached substantial development before being shelved.

Earlier this year, Sony officially cancelled a live-service game that Bend Studio was working on. Sony reassured fans that the studio “was not going anywhere. But the aftermath was quite perplexing, to say the least. News surfaced that 30% of Bend Studio’s employees were laid off after the cancellation, with more layoffs rumored to have occurred last month.

Bend Studio’s last major release was a PS5 and PC port of Days Gone, which first arrived on the PS4 in 2019. The game has a very positive rating on Steam, with a 91.43% user score. Simply put, the game has 96,811 positive reviews on Steam. Before Days Gone, Bend Studio worked on Uncharted: Golden Abyss for the PS Vita and the Syphon Filter series.

Sony Interactive Entertainment or Bend Studio has not publicly commented on the rumored cancellations of in-development titles. Amid the rumored layoffs, the future of a Days Gone sequel or a new open-world adventure seems unlikely.