Never heard of the game or the developer. I guess that’s half the problem

I…don’t even remember this game existing.

I haven't played it yet but I did buy it on XBOX. It was a great price (about £20) and it looks like an interesting rough diamond.

The fact they've gone bankrupt is really sad but it's actually amazing it made it consoles at all given how close to the brink the developer appears to have been.

I remember listening to an interview on the Game Business Show podcast with the studio lead of Sampson. Sad they’ve had to close but hopefully the people can stay within the industry. All games and digital art are borne from love and effort.

I mean it was a buggy mess on launch (at least for me). It's just not fun to fall through the floor repeatedly, plus the game just felt clunky. Now there's many other, better games to be played.

I saw videos, and it didn't make me want to buy it.
It looks like a very dead NPC wise, and the gameplay looked very repetitive

This is sad, although buggy at release there is a good game underneath and they've fixed most of the bugs with recent patches, at the price point it's a great way to get that GTA / DRIV3R fix

It’s always sad to hear something. Bought the game for 25 bucks. It’s okay. Visually it’s pretty nice but overall it’s highly limited in its gameplay and even these limited parts don’t feel that polished. Simply a disappointing release but you can have fun with the game nevertheless.

I've never heard of this, but I do feel for the devs.

However........at the risk of sounding insensetive.......a 51 on Metacritic isn't exactly an endorsement of quality, so it wasn't exactly a title that deserved to succeed.

Still I wish the employees the best of luck, and hope they go on to find success elsewhere.

I'm arguably too online and I'm never heard of this game

Shouldn't have spent so much time on hair physics...

I saw this again recently on the PSN, watched the trailer and thought the setting would fit Robocop but other than that I couldn't picture myself ever playing the game. I think I first saw it one night on State of Play, I remember seeing it on a live chat and thinking we were finally getting a new Driver, unfortunately not.

Watched it through development. It's review score put me off. Surprised it made it to console. I have played it since launch and it's okay, bit of driver but of punch up, sprinkled with bugs and debt management ironically.

Damn. I hate it when people's hard work gets reviewed poorly. Really sucks that they went out like this.

I'm enjoying Samson despite it's flaws. It has old school charm in the form of a little jank and a relatively repetitive experience BUT, it's gorgeous to look at (especially on PC with DLSS5 mod) and has incredible attention to detail in its smallish map. It's a shame the former Mad Max devs couldn't quite translate the hand to hand and car combat more effectively from that game but what is here is gritty and mostly fun for a small team with limited resources. The price reflects the experience and for $12 on sale, it's cheaper than coffee and a breakfast sandwich in NYC.

Gotta make a good game if you want to be successful in the gaming business...or just make a predatory crappy puzzle game and milk the ad revenue. One or the other, apparently.

I wanted to try it once it released on PS5, but the fact that the gameplay is all melee combat and no shootouts, when it's supposed to be set in a gritty American city, kind of turned me away.

PushSquare put up multiple articles about this game and yet some of the people who seemingly comment on every article have apparently never heard of it.

Seems like a game made without AI could still be bad, who knew.

I'm surprised how many people haven't heard of this when it was the laughing stock of the internet on launch for quite some time

Surprising to nobody but PushSquare who backed it from day 1 despite the clear signs.

"What I'm trying to say is that Liquid Swords could have built something better off the back of Samson.."

Could've, would've, should've built something better to begin with.

This sucks. I actually planned on playing this one. Looked interesting enough.

Is it going to disappear from the ps store? I was waiting for a sale.

They made a game that made people think of GTA. Went it launched turned out it was a indie game. Combine that with bugs and people not reading and you have bad sales at launch.

The launch on consoles was after a dozen or so QOL, bugs fixes and some refinement.

@Boxmonkey how are you a gamer and not heard of it? i think you're more the problem.

@Sunraku they kind of had to release it, even half finished, or go insolvent. Early access wouldn't have saved it, it doesn't really work for one and done games.

It's a game I was always curious in. I loved the look/vibe, but with so many other games coming out, it never made it to the top of my list. I hope all the devs find new employment soon.

@Boxmonkey The game is meant to be dreadful like near Mindseye level.

@Sunraku 100%. Labelling it as full release was a cynical move to try and shift more copies but it also meant they were open to being reviewed.