Moon Studios

Moon Studios has pushed the full release of No Rest for the Wicked from October 2026 to March 2027. The studio said the game had not reached the quality bar it set for launch and that the extra time would go to performance, class system tuning, and polish. An open beta is planned for December 2026, and Steam players who buy the game by January 1, 2027 receive a founder pack. The PS5 version moves to the same March 2027 window as the full release, with Xbox Series X|S and Switch 2 versions planned.

The delay is the second recent move that puts the studio's public positioning and its release schedule on separate tracks. CEO Thomas Mahler launched VideoGamesCritic on September 2, a review aggregation site that weights user scores at least two thirds against media scores and that recalculates a game's score after launch. Mahler's stated objection is to Metacritic and OpenCritic favoring media scores, and to launch ratings that never move. The site also publishes a trust score for media outlets, calculated by comparing their reviews to concurrent Steam user ratings.

The studio's older work is still selling. Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the 2020 sequel, recorded over 17,000 concurrent players on Steam on September 29 during a 90 percent discount that priced the game at 313 yen including tax through 2:00 AM on October 2. The game is available on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. The previous game, Ori and the Blind Forest, was discounted in the same window and drew just over 1,000 concurrent players in the same 24-hour period.