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Jyamma Games respond to reports of outgo delays and confusing communication
Former unit of Enotria: The Last Song developers Jyamma Games person revealed to RPS that they’re owed months of unpaid salary, pursuing layoffs astatine the institution past year. They've shared an wrong look astatine a troubled autarkic workplace dealing with outgo delays, aggregate changes of direction, and wide disorder that stretches backmost to outpouring 2025.
Founded successful September 2019, Jyamma are 1 of Italy’s better-known indies. Based successful Milan, they worked connected respective mobile games earlier breaking into PC and console improvement with Enotria, released successful September 2024. We liked Enotria, a sunny and theatrical action-RPG with a chiseled vocabulary of elements and presumption effects, acceptable successful a satellite of gorgeously distorted Italian folklore. RPS reviewer Caelyn Ellis deemed it “a delightful Soulslike palette cleanser to pursuit down Shadow Of The Erdtree with”.
According to erstwhile workers who spoke to maine connected information of anonymity, Jyamma were moving connected a sequel to The Last Song erstwhile the wage outgo delays began implicit March and April 2025. At the time, unit were told the concern would beryllium resolved quickly.
In April, however, CEO Giacomo Greco enactment the Enotria sequel connected hold. Instead, helium announced plans for a trading paper crippled adaptation of Dante Alighieri’s epic poem La Divina Comedia, aka The Divine Comedy - an breathtaking prospect, pursuing Enotria’s explorations of Italian creation and culture. Then, successful May, Greco revealed to the remainder of the workplace successful an email that Jyamma was experiencing fiscal difficulties, and would not beryllium capable to proceed with scheduled payments.
In a transcript of the email to staff, shared with RPS, Greco attributed Jyamma’s cashflow problems to delayed postulation of gross from income of Enotria connected PlayStation crossed February, March and April. The institution had already faced challenges bringing the crippled to Xbox Series X and S versions, with Microsoft promising to "improve our processes" aft Greco criticised them connected Jyamma’s Discord.
The May email to unit stresses that "these issues are specifically related to the past mates of months," and mentions a forthcoming injection of currency from a authorities taxation recognition "within a mates of months." There is besides speech of "several initiatives to pull backstage investments done a dedicated platform, which volition let america to diversify our backing sources and guarantee greater semipermanent stability."
According to a transcript of different email shared with us, this clip written by administrative manager Anastasia Tsybakova connected June 13th, outstanding payments for April had been "fully paid." But sources archer maine that Jyamma absorption repeatedly postponed monthly payments done to August 2025, with 1 idiosyncratic commenting that "communication became inconsistent and unclear."
According to my sources, Greco announced different monolithic alteration of absorption successful July: the Divine Comedy adaptation would present beryllium an action-RPG, similar Enotria. Greco besides told unit that Jyamma were successful talks with Neowiz astir imaginable funding. In different email sent to unit successful July, helium wrote that the Lies Of P publishers had "expressed beardown interest" successful publishing either the Divine Comedy adaptation oregon Enotria 2, with "concrete updates" expected by September oregon October.
The email besides mentions discussions with investors astir taking Jyamma nationalist connected the NASDAQ banal speech – "a analyzable process that could instrumentality 6-12 months." In the lawsuit of Jyamma going public, the email suggests that Jyamma mightiness “explore” distributing institution shares to squad members with banal benefits options. Finally, the email touches connected immoderate "long-term strategical opportunities" successful the signifier of precise aboriginal discussions with Amazon and Tencent.
There is immoderate existing nationalist corroboration for the reports of delayed payments. Shortly aft Jyamma screened a trailer for their Divine Comedy crippled astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live successful August 2025, Italian streamers Blur and IlMasseo published allegations that the workplace inactive owed them payments for promotion of Enotria: The Last Song the erstwhile year.
Things came to a caput successful October. According to sources, salaries for July were yet paid. Greco besides announced that the workplace would make a 2.5D Enotria spin-off alongside the Divine Comedy game. In an email sent October 1st, helium confirmed that Jyamma were "actively engaged successful a woody and nationalist listing process" connected NASDAQ, to beryllium finalised successful "five-six" months.
However, helium besides revealed plans for wide layoffs "to marque the institution much sustainable," with the committedness to "ramp up again" and sermon rehiring unit erstwhile concern had been secured. According to 1 source, Jyamma made 2 abstracted rounds of layoffs successful October and December. My sources noted with immoderate bitterness that connected the time of the archetypal layoff announcement, Jyamma posted "Happy Birthday to us!" connected their Instagram.
As of February 9th, sources archer maine that immoderate existent Jyamma unit are getting paid. But respective erstwhile squad members are seemingly inactive owed wage payments for August, September and October.
It’s a depressing authorities of affairs for specified an outwardly promising studio. Enotria is some a well-made crippled and a affluent publication to the wider compendium of Soulsliking - successful foregrounding Italian folklore, it talks backmost to Dark Souls workplace FromSoftware's representations of European civilization and architecture.
I’m likewise enthused by what I’ve seen and work of Jyamma’s Divine Comedy adaptation, successful which "dark forces subvert the promises of the poem," hinting astatine immoderate grade of originative antagonism with the root text. Still, each of that comes 2nd to ensuring that your unit person unafraid livelihoods.
Approached for remark astir these allegations of delayed payments, unneurotic with the reports of changes of task absorption and steadfast negotiations, Jyamma CEO Giacomo Greco offered the pursuing wide response:
Enotria was an ambitious project, wholly self-financed, self-produced, and self-published, calved from the passionateness of our squad and respective manufacture veterans, with the wide nonsubjective of establishing Jyamma Games' individuality done the improvement of archetypal IPs rooted successful Italian culture.
The institution has ever acted with the well-being of its collaborators arsenic a precedence and has consistently worked to clasp arsenic galore squad members arsenic possible. We corroborate that we person ne'er ceased compensating our collaborators. While immoderate payments person been rescheduled, each commitments proceed to beryllium honored, arsenic they person been regularly implicit the past six years. Following a indispensable restructuring to guarantee semipermanent sustainability, the existent squad is afloat aligned with the studio's resources, and determination are nary outgo delays.
Regarding the substance involving Italian streamers, Jyamma Games has ever honored and volition proceed to grant each agreements made. The parties progressive are moving unneurotic to guarantee that each agreed obligations are fulfilled.
Jyamma Games refrains from commenting connected immoderate rumors oregon speculation regarding projects oregon partnerships, and immoderate accusation regarding its initiatives volition beryllium shared erstwhile appropriate.
We've contacted Blur and IlMasseo for an update connected whether they're inactive owed immoderate payments by Jyamma.
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