Why an up-and-coming indie developer is returning Microsoft’s money

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Video games are in a funding crisis. Investor money flowed freely during the pandemic gaming boom, but now the well has run dry. It is increasingly difficult, for indie developers especially, to get the capital to make games. It is extremely unusual, then, to hear of a developer returning an investor’s money. Yet that is what Speculative Agency, developers of All Will Rise, have just done.

 

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/18/pushing-buttons-microsoft-indie-game-all-will-rise-no-games-for-genocide