Spiders heads for liquidation after buyer search fails at Nacon

French studio Spiders is heading toward court liquidation after parent company Nacon failed to find a buyer, according to an April 28 report from Origami. The report says the court-appointed administrator handling Nacon's restructuring plans to ask the commercial court on Wednesday to place the studio into liquidation, calling it a formality at this stage. If that sequence holds, the team behind GreedFall and Steelrising is at the end of its current run.

The immediate point is not a vague troubled-studio update but a timetable. Origami says Spiders has already shifted away from normal production work. CV updates and self-training have replaced work on future projects, and the studio's activity has largely stalled. Nacon declined to comment to Origami. Because the report comes through a French news outlet rather than a company statement, the safest framing is that liquidation is reported as imminent, not yet formally completed.

Origami also sketches the production backdrop. One licensed project, codenamed Dark, was reportedly canceled last year. Spiders then focused on the final stretch of GreedFall 2 and on a new pitch intended to secure the studio's future. That pre-production reportedly involved about 70 employees before work froze in recent days. For players, the unanswered question is what happens next to GreedFall 2 support, the studio's IP, and any unfinished internal pitches if the court signs off on liquidation.

The Reddit thread quickly split between grief for Spiders and anger at Nacon. The top comment argued the closure reflects Nacon's debt problems rather than a simple failure by the development team, while other posters worried about whether GreedFall 2 would stay on sale if the studio disappears. That reaction matches the core of the report: this is not a routine layoff story, but a publisher-level financing failure now spilling into one of the better-known AA RPG studios in France.