GFA Games is facing new issues.
Pioner
As our colleagues at IXBT Games noticed, on May 29, 2026, a petition was filed in the Moscow Arbitration Court demanding the bankruptcy of GFA Games LLC — the Russian legal entity of Pioner's developers. The petition was submitted by the Federal Tax Service of Russia in the Kirov region.
The exact reasons for the tax service's decision are unknown. However, it can be assumed that the studio's significant debt to the national treasury served as the impetus.
Recall that information about GFA Games' debt surfaced at the end of April, when the tax authorities froze the studio's accounts in Russian banks. At that time, it was reported that GFA Games owed approximately 13 million rubles, but the amount has since increased to 32.5 million rubles.
This is happening amid reports of a crisis at GFA Games. Previously, App2Top found out that GFA Games had been delaying salaries for months, and the studio's management was seriously at odds with the development team. GFA Games later publicly confirmed the payment issues but described them as temporary and related to the "suddenly complicated bureaucracy" while working with Russia.