According to Kilduff-Taylor, the game was a commercial disappointment for them, but their capabilities attracted contract work from clients like ITV, BBC, and Novint Technologies.
[2] After about a year, sales of the beta were sufficient to sustain them allowing them to commit to the title full-time.
[1] Frozen Synapse, a turn-based combat strategy simulation game, was released in full by May 2011, received critical praise, and by early 2012, had sold over 300,000 units, with over US$300,000 in direct sales to Mode 7.
With his departure, Mode 7 further downsized as they were no longer developing "large-scale indie games in-house", but instead would remain committed to supporting the publishing arm and their third-party studios.
[7] Mode 7 announced in February 2020 they would help publish Ground Shatter Game's Fights in Tight Spaces.