Excellent news Lies of P followers, the sport’s upcoming DLC is about to launch in Q1 of 2025. As well as, the developer Neowiz is at the moment engaged on a sci-fi survival horror sport.
Valuable little continues to be recognized about this DLC. We now have the snowy screenshot offered by the sport director from earlier this 12 months, however the scope or additional particulars on the place we’ll go or what we’ll do stays a thriller. Nonetheless, with a Q1 2025 launch window, we’re positive to get a extra complete look within the close to future!
Neowiz’s Spherical 8 studio is sustaining the momentum gained from the broadly cherished Lies of P, with this pseudo-roadmap for the studio stemming from Korean information web site EBN. As for Studio 8’s subsequent sport, a spokesperson said the sport can be developed with Unreal Engine 5 and is focusing on each PC and consoles.
Spherical 8 has said the sport can be a “survival horror challenge set in a SF world”, and has begun hiring workers for this sport. When requested by EBN, a spokesperson said that “it’s nonetheless too early to reveal the progress of the challenge”, although in addition they famous that that is certainly one of many PC and console video games Spherical 8 is engaged on.
The present marketplace for sci-fi horror video games is attention-grabbing. We have seen some large AAA releases come out to blended reception. Whereas the Useless House remake was beloved by many, it did not show widespread sufficient to warrant extra exploring into the collection from EA. Then there’s The Callisto Protocol, which was a daring however finally unsuccessful try to kick off a brand new IP within the AAA sci-fi horror house.
One might discover extra hope and benefit within the indie house. Whereas not precisely in the identical vein because the beforehand talked about video games, Mouthwashing has confirmed extraordinarily widespread (too proper, it is implausible) garnering an unlimited fanbase on-line. You may additionally level to video games like Deadly Firm in the identical style, one other viral hit, although a far methods distant from large AAA hits that Spherical 8 is probably going engaged on.
Finally, the style is ripe for extra consideration. And, with Spherical 8 proving itself a fantastic expertise at creating new IPs, it is in a major place to do effectively. We’ll have to take a seat again and see what it cooks up!