Summer Eternal is one of three studios that revealed themselves to the world on the same day last October, all containing at least some former ZA/UM talent. While everything seemed somewhat harmonious at first (or as harmonious as it can be when ZA/UM and Disco Elysium fallout are involved), it quickly became apparent that this isn't the case, as Summer Eternal - founded by Disco Elysium writer Argo Tuulik - ran into trouble.
One of the studios, Longdue, claimed that Tuulik worked for both them and another studio, Dark Math, before he formed Summer Eternal. Longdue claimed that Tuulik broke "agreements" with the company in doing this, prompting legal action which sided in favour of Longdue. As a result, Tuulik was prevented from working at Summer Eternal - until today.
For this part, Tuulik denies working with Longdue.
Whatever arrangement Tuulik had with Longdue was set to come to an end in April 2025, meaning he can start working on Summer Eternal's debut game once again as of today. True enough, the studio has started tweeting again and has a simple message: "We're back". It also has another message about the whole situation in the image, but you can see...
