Update: A startup crash in Journey To The Savage Planet has been fixed, a Google representative announced on Reddit this week. The patch does not repair corrupted saves, but it will now show in the main menu if a file is corrupted, and deleting that file will restore an unaffected, up-to-date save.

Original Story Journey To The Savage Planet appeared on Stadia last month. Unfortunately, this sci-fi adventure was broken and Google fired all the developers who could have fixed it.

Among various crashes and locks, the Stadia version of Savage Planet has a particularly nasty main menu freeze that can make the game virtually unplayable. Redditor lordubuntu, however, was looking for a fix for this problem and quickly discovered that no one responsible for game administration seemed to know about it.

Posting screenshots from various channels, Google first told him to contact the game's publisher, 505. However, 505 explained that it was not responsible for publishing Savage Planet on Stadia. That responsibility rests with Google's Stadia Games and Entertainment, and Google closed the studio this month.

Stadia's community manager, posting in the comments of the Reddit thread above, claimed that Google is "actively working" to resolve these issues.

"Hi folks, we understand how frustrating this situation can be. We are actively working with our partners to identify a fix and I will do my best to pass the updates along."

Stadia's Twitter account echoed that sentiment, similarly stating that it is working with "partner publishers" to address the concerns. However, given that 505 has denied any involvement in the Stadia port of the game, there is much confusion as to which publisher Google is talking about.

Developer Typhoon Studios was one of the first companies acquired by Google in 2019, and Savage Planet is the closest Stadia has come to a "first party" game (despite being released on PC and consoles last year) It was. But it also meant that when Google closed its in-house studio, approximately 150 Typhoon employees were laid off as part of a workforce reduction.

A week before the layoffs began, Stadia boss Phil Harrison reportedly told employees that the team was making "great progress."

Stadia is now the subject of a class action lawsuit, claiming that consumers were misled about the platform's 4K capabilities. It claims.