The final season of the walking dead may not be cancelled.

We might get to bid a goodbye to clementine at the end.On Friday, Telltale Games sadly announced that it had laid off the majority of its staff and was effectively shutting down, with all future projects cancelled aside from the studio’s plans to release Minecraft: Story Mode on Netflix, which its remaining skeleton crew of just 25 employees are still working on.

Not only does this mean that both The Wolf Among Us: Season 2 and Telltale’s Stranger Things game are as good as dead, but the studio’s ongoing episodic release schedule for The Walking Dead: The Final Season has been brought to an abrupt halt, with the assumption being that the recently released second episode was to be the series’ last, despite two more having been planned for launch in the coming weeks.

Given that The Final Season, as the name suggests, was intended to be a send-off to Clementine, the fan favourite character that first appeared in The Walking Dead game that put Telltale on the map in 2012, the studio’s sudden shuttering leaves the series in a state of fictional limbo, unable to end in the way that its creators had planned. However, Telltale has since released a statement with an update on The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s future, and it’s a slightly more positive one for those interested in playing out Clementine’s story to the very end.