The debut title from Just Trigger developer Christofer Sundberg’s new studio Liquid Swords launches this week, and the launch trailer has arrived. The sport is named Samson: A Tyndalston Story, and at a look, it appears to be like like Grand Theft Auto with out weapons.
The $25 recreation has gamers taking up the position of Samson, a person who “discovered violence earlier than he discovered mercy.” The sport has a debt system the place Samson should repay mobsters after a heist goes badly, and his sister is being held for collateral. Gamers have a cost quota, and deadlines to fulfill, with the debt curiosity rising if missions are unsuccessful.
Samson can earn greater than 25 upgrades to enhance his brawling and driving expertise. The sport doesn’t give Samson any weapons, however he can drive weaponized automobiles to get jobs completed. The sport has a number of open-world districts and NPCs that bear in mind your previous conduct.
Samson launches on April 8 by way of Steam and the Epic Games Store. Liquid Swords developed and is publishing the sport. There’s a $30 Supporter Version as nicely, and it comes with digital extras like wallpapers, the soundtrack, idea artwork, and a 3D printable model of Samson. The sport has not been introduced for console, however GameSpot has reached out to the group to ask about it.
Samson launch instances
April 8
- 6 AM PT
- 9 AM ET
- 3 PM CEST
- 10 PM JST
Liquid Swords describes itself as a “no-nonsense” recreation studio, with Sundberg saying fashionable recreation improvement has develop into overwhelmed by “distractions that have an effect on high quality and motivation.”
Upheaval at Liquid Swords and GTA comparisons
In February 2025, Liquid Swords laid off staff in a transfer that Sunberg stated was needed to make sure the developer’s “long-term stability.” Liquid Swords was based in 2022 after Sundberg left Just Trigger studio Avalanche.
Liquid Swords laid off half the event group, Sundberg advised PC Gamer, and this resulted within the studio needing to pare again its imaginative and prescient for Samson. “We simply shelved these options and saved them for the subsequent recreation, relying on the success of this,” Sundberg stated. “So a variety of these extra heavy RPG methods sit there ready to get again into the sport. Possibly for a sequel, or for post-launch–I do not know, actually.”
As for the comparisons to Rockstar’s GTA collection, Sundberg stated individuals might love GTA, however they might not wish to play it endlessly and ever; that is the place Samson might discover its place.
“There are occasions while you wish to put GTA down and choose up one thing else,” Sundberg stated. “And so I see Samson as being like again within the day when motion motion pictures have been 90 minutes lengthy, not over two hours. I carry on going again to watching Die Onerous and Ronin and First Blood and Rambo. I feel there is a area for us there, and that is the place I wish to find yourself.”