Beyond Frames sold publishing rights to Ghosts of Tabor, Silent North, and GRIM for $1 million. Combat Waffle then named Neem Interactive as the new publisher and said the studio is not shutting down.
The cleanest read on the Combat Waffle / Beyond Frames split is now on the record. Stockholm publisher Beyond Frames Entertainment sold the publishing rights to Ghosts of Tabor, Silent North, and GRIM for $1 million, paid in annual installments through early 2029. Days later, developer Combat Waffle Studios announced Neem Interactive as the replacement publisher and put the rumor mill to rest: the studio is not filing for bankruptcy, and Tabor is still in active development.
The $1 million paper trail
UploadVR and Road to VR both track Beyond Frames’ disclosure: $300,000 in Q3 2026, $300,000 in Q1 2027, $250,000 in Q1 2028, and $150,000 in Q1 2029. The company said the total exceeds its internal forecast for net revenue from those titles for the rest of 2026 and matches expected net revenue through 2028. In plain language, Beyond Frames is cashing out the catalog at roughly what it expected those games to return over the next couple of years, then redirecting capital toward other XR projects.
The partnership dated to early 2023 and was extended later that year to cover additional Combat Waffle titles. On the Beyond Frames side, the sale is framed as balance-sheet flexibility. On the Combat Waffle side, CEO Scott Albright’s LinkedIn note — quoted by UploadVR — was cooler: a publishing deal is “about far more than what’s written on paper,” and alignment of goals matters more than a contract that looks fine on paper.
Neem Interactive takes the stack
On August 11, UploadVR reported Combat Waffle’s follow-up: Neem Interactive is the new publisher, and Combat Waffle “had been working toward greater publishing independence since 2025.” Albright’s statement is blunt about what “publisher” is supposed to mean: more than collecting a royalty check — doors, opportunities, and long-term investment. The studio also wants room to expand the Tabor universe past a single extraction shooter.
Ghosts of Tabor: Legacy shipped on Meta Quest on July 31 and Steam on August 1. At the time of UploadVR’s Neem piece, Legacy was the top paid release on the Meta Horizon Store over the prior 30 days, with about 1.3k ratings and a 4.5 score. Steam’s Ghosts of Tabor listing already showed Neem Interactive as publisher in that coverage; other storefronts were expected to catch up.
Neem’s public footprint is thin. UploadVR notes the company recently published flatscreen co-op extraction builder Grain Rot on Steam (August 7) and otherwise discloses little about its roster or funding. That is the open question for players: whether the new partner can match Albright’s “opens doors” bar, or whether this is mainly a rights transfer with a quieter royalty split.
What this is not
It is not a delisting. It is not a studio shutdown announcement. UploadVR’s first pass on the Beyond Frames sale already argued the split can be a net positive when a publisher and a developer are no longer aligned — and Combat Waffle’s Neem statement is written to kill the opposite reading. Layoffs at Combat Waffle earlier in the year and a reader forwarding the Beyond Frames notice with “is Combat Waffle dead?” made that clarification necessary.
For the wider VR market, the useful signal is smaller and sharper: a commercially successful Quest extraction shooter can outgrow its first publisher, cash that publisher out at forecast value, and keep shipping under a new name on the box. Wishlist and store pages remain the live check — Ghosts of Tabor on Steam now lists Neem. Watch whether Quest and other platforms follow, and whether the promised Tabor-universe expansion gets a dated roadmap instead of another vibe statement.
Sources: UploadVR — Beyond Frames $1M rights sale; UploadVR — Neem Interactive; Road to VR; Steam — Ghosts of Tabor.