Fortis Games announced on November 4 that it was sunsetting Twilight Towers. Seven days later, the entire studio had shut down.
About 440 jobs are gone with the closure of the mobile developer, which made Twilight Towers and Bloom & Breakfast. CEO Steven Chiang confirmed the news in a statement 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,” Chiang said.
Las Vegas Sands stops paying
Chiang, who previously worked as an executive at Electronic Arts and Zynga, founded Fortis in 2022. Las Vegas Sands Corp. bankrolled the San Francisco studio as a way to take its casino brand into areas outside gambling. Fortis bought several game studios during the four years that followed.
That support has now ended. Game producer Gustavo Coronet wrote on LinkedIn that Las Vegas Sands decided to “end funding and part ways, terminating all of the contracts, worldwide.”
Coronet’s post put the blame on the funding decision and defended the team’s output. “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 said.
A former insider sees it differently
Scott Butterworth, the studio’s former communications director, was less upbeat in a LinkedIn post of his own. He wrote that Fortis pitched a “community-focused” approach to mobile games, but it never drew enough players to “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,” Butterworth said.
Butterworth lost his job in the closure, and it landed in the middle of a move. “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?” he said.
Chiang’s plans for the staff
The rest of Chiang’s statement was about the employees. “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.”
Other studios have closed recently too. EA revealed it had shut down BioWare, the developer of Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Players have reacted badly to that decision and are now campaigning for EA to do something, anything, with both series so they don’t fade into obscurity.