Fortis Games Closes With Over 400 Jobs Impacted

Fortis Games, a studio behind mobile titles like Twilight Towers and Bloom & Breakfast, has closed its doors, impacting around 440 jobs.

CEO Steven Chiang confirmed the closure in a statement to GamesBeat on November 10, 2026. “Fortis has been a labor of love for so many of us and we’re disappointed we weren’t able to achieve the goals we set for ourselves when we started this journey more than five years ago,” he told the outlet.

“We have been fortunate to work with some of the most talented and dedicated people in this space. As we move forward, our primary focus will be on helping this talented team of individuals find new opportunities. Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past five years. We are grateful for the collaboration and friendship we have shared with so many.”

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Several former employees have spoken out about the closure in posts on LinkedIn. In one of these posts, game producer Gustavo Coronet confirmed that Las Vegas Sands Corp., Fortis Games’ parent company, chose to “end funding and part ways, terminating all of the contracts, worldwide.”

“Super proud of the work we’ve done. LVS’s decision does not delete the ground breaking and best-in class agentic development workflow the Octopus team has built, nor the massively solid soft launch metrics both our projects were achieving in such early stages of development,” he wrote.

In another post, former communications director Scott Butterworth suggested that Fortis’s “community-focused” approach to mobile games didn’t resonate enough with players to help it “get off the ground.”

“Ah, Fortis Games — what could have been. Despite our unique, community-focused approach to the mobile games market, we just couldn’t seem to get off the ground, and today, we finally ran out of runway,” he wrote.

“The company has officially shuttered, abruptly putting more than 400 talented people out of work (myself included). Hilariously, I’m also in the process of relocating to Los Angeles, so hey, why not add a little more change on top, right?”

Fortis Gaming was founded in 2022 by Steven Chiang, former executive at Electronic Arts and Zynga. Based out of San Francisco, California, it was funded by Las Vegas Sands Corp. to help the casino brand expand outside of gambling. Fortis went on to acquire several games studios over the ensuing four years; on November 4, it announced that it was sunsetting Twilight Towers, a move that came a mere week before Fortis’s total closure.

This is the latest game studio to shut its doors after EA revealed that it had closed down BioWare, famous for AAA RPG series like Mass Effect and Dragon Age — a decision that has proven to be extremely unpopular among players, who are now campaigning for EA to do something, anything, with its IP to prevent them from languishing in obscurity.

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