The studio produced some early hits for the PSVR and Oculus Quest.
Polyarc, the virtual reality game developer Mousse And Moss: Book IIhas closed, according to a new post on the studio’s LinkedIn page. According to a reverse hiring sheet shared with the announcement, at least 29 studio staff members are now looking for work.
“After nearly 12 years of riding the joyous rollercoaster of emotions that is video game creation, our time together has come to an end,” Polyarc said. “As we end active development, we say goodbye. Working together for all these years has been an honor. Bringing surprise and delight to those who have played our games has been a privilege. Thanks to everyone at Polyarc, our work is now complete.”
The Seattle-based studio’s Moss series was an early VR favorite, thanks in part to the way it fused traditional action-adventure gameplay with a camera system that let you look around diorama-like levels while controlling Quill, the series’ mouse protagonist. The release of Polyarc has also become a reliable catalog filler for various VR platforms: Mousse launched on PlayStation VR and was also ported to Oculus Quest as a launch title. Moss: Book II was also released on PSVR, Quest, SteamVR, and Pico, and the studio even released one of the few VR games for Apple Vision Pro, a multiplayer strategy title called Glass breakers.
In May 2026, Polyarc attempted to reach a non-VR audience with Moss: the forgotten relicwhich collected the Moss series into one game and reinvented the gameplay so you don’t need a VR headset to play. It’s unclear how well the game sold, but it obviously wasn’t enough to keep the studio afloat. The biggest problem might be changes to the VR ecosystem that have made it harder to launch new projects. Meta began its big shift from the Metaverse to AI products earlier this year. Not only has the company closed several of its own VR studios, but its withdrawal from the space has likely made it even more difficult to finance new VR games.
Even though the studio is closed, all Polyarc games remain available for purchase. If you have a VR headset that’s gathering dust somewhere and you haven’t tried it, it’s definitely worth playing.
