Nine months after the studio released its debut game, Disintegration, developer V1 Interactive is disabled. The studio announced its closure via Twitter on Monday, thanks V1 Interactive’s staff and its supporters.
On its website, V1 Interactive described itself as a small business and had a staff photo with 27 members.
V1 Interactive was founded by Marcus Lehto and was officially launched in 2016 after concluding an agreement with Take-Two Interactive’s indie-focused label Private Division. Lehto was a veteran of Halo and Destiny developer Bungie, where he served as art director at the former Halo Games and creative director at Halo reach. At V1 Interactive, he was president and creative director.
In the summer of 2019, V1 Interactive announced its first game, Distinction, a sci-fi first person shooter with real-time strategy elements. Distinction boasts a full single-player story campaign and a “great” multiplayer component. It was released in June 2020 on PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. In our practical impressions of the game we said: ‘Disintegration contains interesting ideas but never learns how to get out of his own way long enough to make me enjoy. ”
A few months later, V1 Interactive announced it Distinction‘s multiplayer mode will be taken offline.
“While our player base has shown interest in the single – player campaign, the game has unfortunately struggled to build a significant audience that was necessary for an immersive multiplayer experience,” the developer said. “After the weighing options, we jointly decided to suppress the support for the multiplayer.”
Disintegration went offline in November 2020.
On Twitter, the studio said in its closing announcement:
We are sorry to inform you that V1 Interactive is officially closing.
We thank all the talented people on V1, both past and present, who helped make the past 5 years amazing.
And heartfelt thanks to the wonderful community we supported.