King of Meat studio was reportedly expecting 100,000 concurrent players, but it peaked at 320 on Steam—and that was during a free weekend

An Insider Gaming report says Glowmade Games will lay off employees in January 2026 after its debut game, the Amazon-published King of Meat, flopped badly. While the number of employees being put out of work isn’t known, sources told the site that the process began earlier this month with discussions about voluntary redundancies that would impact about a dozen people.

Word of the layoffs, confirmed by multiple Glowmade employees on LinkedIn, comes just a couple months after the release of King of Meat, a “co-op party platformer” for up to four players. It’s yet another ugly outcome for a game studio, but what makes this case particularly interesting is that the report claims “leadership”—whether that’s at Glowmade or Amazon isn’t specified—was expecting a concurrent player count for King of Meat of at least 100,000.