According to Argentine gaming media PressOver, Saber Interactive's Latin American studio Saber LATAM (formerly Nimble Giant Entertainment) has been removed from development of a Metro series multiplayer game, resulting in 25 layoffs at the studio. The project was first accidentally revealed in 2024 during an interview with Saber CEO Matthew Karch by GamesIndustry, but related descriptions were later removed from the article.
The report states that development on this Metro multiplayer project lasted nearly six years, with the team peaking at over 100 developers and still employing 60 people before the project was transferred. The prolonged development cycle was partly due to ideological conflicts within the development team regarding multiplayer gameplay versus the traditional single-player Metro experience, for which no effective solution was ever found.
Following the loss of the project, Saber LATAM laid off 25 employees, continuing previous small-scale staff reductions. The studio's offices in Peru and Uruguay were also affected, having closed and dismissed staff several weeks ago. Significant changes also occurred in management, with long-serving CEO and co-founder Andrés Chilkowski recently departing and being succeeded by current COO Lucas Wall. In an interview with PressOver, Wall did not directly mention the Metro project but confirmed that the studio had "lost a major project."
Saber LATAM's previous releases have not performed well in the market. The strategy game Star Trek: Infinite, released in 2023, received only six months of post-launch support before updates ceased; the earlier time-travel-themed multiplayer shooter Quantum League also failed to maintain an active player base.
The future of this Metro multiplayer project remains unclear.