Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio behind the open-world action game Samson, has gone bankrupt. The Stockholm District Court declared the company bankrupt earlier this week (October 12th), and attorney Karl Björlin of the law firm Cirio was appointed as trustee. The studio was founded in 2020 by Christofer Sundberg, the co-founder of Avalanche Studios and creator of Just Cause, and Samson was its first and only release.
According to the trustee’s sale documents, Liquid Swords has 27 employees, and all of them will be dismissed as part of the bankruptcy. It has been reported that the studio had not paid salaries for several months before the bankruptcy. Under Sweden’s state wage guarantee, employees of a bankrupt…