Chronicles: Medieval studio warns it may close before Early Access
Raw Power Games says its funding is gone and asks players to keep the open-world strategy sandbox on their wishlists while it looks for a way through.
Raw Power Games, the Copenhagen studio behind Chronicles: Medieval, says it could shut down before its game reaches Early Access. In a post on X on October 30, the team said the funding behind the studio is "no longer in place" because of circumstances outside its control, leaving it "at real risk of closing."
What the studio said
The message was unusually direct. Raw Power said it would not sugarcoat the situation and that, without the money, it cannot keep building the game. The team said Early Access is "within reach" and that the world it has spent years building is finally coming together. It credited staff in Copenhagen and remote locations for carrying the heaviest load, and said it does not yet know how this ends, but intends to fight.
The studio asked fans for one concrete thing: keep Chronicles: Medieval on Steam wishlists and keep talking about it. Wishlist numbers are one of the main signals publishers and investors look at, so that request is aimed squarely at whoever might step in.
A game with real attention
Chronicles: Medieval is an open-world sandbox that mixes large-scale medieval strategy with direct action. Its standout idea is letting you drop from the strategic view into a commander on the battlefield and fight in third person. The reveal at Summer Game Fest 2025 came with a trailer narrated by Tom Hardy, which has passed 2 million views on IGN's YouTube channel alone. IGN has previewed it twice, praising the scale and detail of its battles while noting it still felt early.
That level of interest is exactly why the warning stings. Plenty of studios this year have lost funding with no visible audience behind them; Raw Power has a recognisable game and a public wishlist base to point to.
What happens next
There is no new date and no announced rescue. The best-case outcome is a publisher or investor deal that carries the team into Early Access. For strategy fans in SEA following the game, the wishlist on Steam is the only lever available right now, and the next update from Raw Power will show whether it has found a backer.
Source: IGN; Insider Gaming; Raw Power Games (X).
