In June 2020, Chris Avellone, who helped with the game's writing early in development, was accused by three people of using his status in the video game industry for sexual harrassment and misconduct towards women. On director Stephen Kick's Twitter account, when asked if Avellone was still involved in the game following these allegations, Kick tweeted that he had not been involved with the game since 2017, and that Night Dive took the game's writing in a different direction after restarting development in 2018. The allegations were later retracted by the accusers following a libel lawsuit in 2023.