It's pretty similar in the games. Some companies forbid crunching, many are just encouraging it and very few are actually forcing crunch. E.g. one big publisher

It's pretty similar in the games. Some companies forbid crunching, many are just encouraging it and very few are actually forcing crunch. E.g. one big publisher offered the studio were I worked at the time a contract that demanded working on weekends. The studio walked away from the deal but other studios had signed up with them and, I figure, they might had similar contracts. Most of the crunch, though, is voluntary.