A range of LinkedIn posts from former contractors for Gunzilla Frankfurt accuse the company of not paying their salaries for months. Sources from the Ukrainian subsidiary meanwhile told GamesMarkt that the issue runs deeper. CEO Korolev denies the claims.
Current and former contractors of Gunzilla Games have spoken out against the company in accusations that the company has not paid several months of work.
Gunzilla Games is the developer behind NFT-powered game Off the Grid with offices in Frankfurt am Main, Kyiv and London, and the financier behind the recently-saved Game Informer media site. It is listed under Singaporean mother company Poseidon 133 PTE. LTD.
Paul Creamer, a Canadian freelancer working for the German subsidiary Gunzilla GmbH, had one of the farthest-reaching posts. He wrote: “Gunzilla Games has not paid its employees for many months but still expects them to work. I have personally not been paid since October 2025. Some have had their pay delayed even longer. I foolishly worked for 3 extra months (October, November and December) with assurances that delays in payment would be resolved. Upper management promised that these delays were temporary and growing pains tied to being a new company with a new game.”
“It’s not an isolated case. Paul’s post just confirms what I and many others have been experiencing. Silence is no longer an option when people aren't being paid for their hard work.” Anna Savina, former Talent Acquisition Lead at Gunzilla, chimed in in a LinkedIn comment on Creamer’s post as well. Her posts were some of the first to gain public attention on the matter, after she quit her job at Gunzilla GmbH in mid-March 2026.
Other posts included Vladyslav Spitkovskyi, Senior Game Programmer working from Belgium, who claimed he did not get paid since December 2025 and would now go through EU courts to get his wages. Riccardo Galdieri, Technical UI Designer working remotely for Gunzilla GmbH as a contractor, had commented on the issue for over a month on LinkedIn, said he wasn’t payed what he was owed as well, but got his money after getting a lawyer involved. “This is much bigger than you can possibly believe, there are dozens of people with pending salaries from them. I made a post a while back and they tried to silence me as well, but I got a lawyer involved and got what it was owed to me. Don't lose hope,” he commented on Creamer’s post.
Several other former or current contractors have since then commented on their own profile or under one of the posts that gained traction, or reached out to media – GamesMarkt has spoken to no less than 15 affected people – with most of them saying they are missing payments since October, several of them even going back to September, August or June.
But the issues seem to run further than the Frankfurt subsidiary, at which most of the workers that gained public attention seemed to be employed at or contracted for. GamesMarkt has spoken to as many as nine former or recent contractors of Gunzilla’s Kyiv office, who confirmed that all of them are missing compensation for at least the timeframe of October to December 2025. Most of them were employed as so-called “private entrepreneurs”, a Ukraine contractor form that is similar to a German “Werksvertrag” – payment is due in certain intervals after a production goal is met, which must be confirmed by both sides through signage. These sources, who would like to remain anonymous, confirmed that the Ukrainian office withheld the signage for work they did and thus also did not pay them.
In a post on X, Gunzilla’s CEO Vlad Korolev meanwhile denied the claims made by the contractors after several of the LinkedIn posts went viral. “Today there is a new narrative from haters — that Gunzilla incorrectly laid off contractors or paid them with delays. Yes, we are optimizing costs — like every company in gaming, crypto, and tech is doing right now. We have been doing this for over a year. And yes, to not disrupt company operations, some payments may be scheduled in a way that works for the company’s cash flow — not always for everyone individually. That’s the reality of the world we live in. But to protect the interests of our players and our full-time official employees — whose salaries, over 6 years, have never been delayed by more than a week — we operate at a pace that ensures the company continues moving forward.”
GamesMarkt has asked Gunzilla for additional comments as well.
