Samson: A Tyndalston Story is the debut game from developer Liquid Swords, the studio founded by Christofer Sundberg, the founder of Avalanche Studios and one of the creators of the Just Cause series. Now, after a less-than-ideal launch earlier this month, Sundberg and the team are committed to making Samson work, with a flurry of bug and technical fixes on the way, and a console release scheduled for its 2026 roadmap.
Samson was meant to be a smaller-scaled, double-A sized game, according to Liquid Swords, but even within that scope, the game still launched with a lot of technical issues. It's flurry of bugs mixed with repetitive gameplay is what brought the game down several notches in my review, despite its story and gameplay structure all adding interesting stakes and tension to the whole ordeal.
Thankfully, Liquid Swords has been quick to release a couple of updates already, with more soon on the way. It's third major update, coming on April 22, looks to be one of the most significant updates yet after its first two updates addressed instances that would cause the game to crash and some progression-blocking bugs.
This next update will add more performance fixes, improvements to combat, a refinement of the time trials, and a lot more bug fixes. The console launch, which is the last thing listed on the roadmap, is set to arrive sometime in Fall 2026, which seems more than feasible for Liquid Swords to reach, especially if it keeps up the pace it is currently working at with these updates.
The third update arriving this coming Wednesday is the lastest one in just as many weeks. A fourth update will arrive next week, and a fifth update the week after. The studio also has new content scheduled to arrive, and hopefully between the bug fixes and new content, it won't be very long before Samson is a much better game than what I got to play ahead of and at its launch.
It's the kind of redemption arc you want to see, especially when it's coming from a small independent team. Hopefully, Liquid Swords will be able to pull it off, so that it's running without issue by the time it arrives on current-gen consoles (or ideally well before that console launch arrives).
For more on Samson: A Tyndalston Story, you can check out my full review and my interview with Christofer Sundberg and Donald Young on how the game looked to achieve its "intensity over scale" design mantra.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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