Spiders, GreedFall studio, is liquidated and closes immediately

Spiders’ liquidation does more than erase one studio in Paris. It removes one of the clearest European names in mid-budget action RPGs, a team that built a recognizable lane with GreedFall, Steelrising, and a run of earlier, scrappier adventures that kept a loyal audience watching for the next odd, ambitious thing.

The studio said it had received confirmation that Spiders itself no longer existed and that its functions would cease at once. STJV, the French game workers’ union, said the liquidation was ordered on April 29 and that 71 workers were affected. The union accused Nacon’s management of making a “premeditated and deliberate choice,” and said the official explanation pointed to insufficient profits and the absence of any takeover offer.

That ending lands hard because Spiders spent years carving out a niche most publishers have been steadily backing away from. Founded in 2008 by former Monte Cristo developers, the studio started with an Xbox 360 port of Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper before moving into original projects like Faery: Legends of Avalon, Mars: War Logs, The Technomancer, GreedFall, Steelrising, and finally GreedFall: The Dying World. At the time Bigben Interactive acquired Spiders in 2019, the studio had 30 employees and its own development engine, Silk. By 2026, it had grown to roughly 71 workers, a reminder that the studio was not a tiny side project but a real mid-tier RPG house that had expanded into something more durable.

The corporate chain behind the shutdown shows how fragile that middle tier has become. Nacon, Spiders’ parent company, entered insolvency after financial trouble tied to Bigben Interactive, which reportedly missed a partial repayment on a €43 million bond loan. That set off judicial reorganization proceedings in late March that also hit Kylotonn, Cyanide, and Nacon Tech. Nacon then failed to find a buyer for Spiders, sealing the studio’s fate.

Even so, the last traces of Spiders will not vanish all at once. The studio said GreedFall: The Dying World DLC would still be released through Nacon, and that its Discord would be handed over to the community. It is a small handoff, but it says a lot about what survives after the company disappears: the players, the servers, the mod talk, the build debates, and the memory of a studio that gave the AA RPG space one more distinctive voice before the lights went out.