Liquid Swords, the Swedish studio behind open-world crime game Samson, was declared bankrupt. While the development is clearly bad news for Samson, it will not result in an immediate end to support for the game and may not necessarily spell the end of the Stockholm-based studio, which still has at least one potential path through the bankruptcy process.
Liquid Swords was founded in 2020 by Christofer Sundberg, an Avalanche Studios co-founder best known for his work on the Just Cause franchise. The studio spent several years developing Samson as its debut title before releasing the open-world game on PC in April 2026, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S ports in September.
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