Whereas the Soulslike style of video games is making a push for a extra multiplayer-centric expertise courtesy of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring: Nightreign, Lies of P director Jiwon Choi has spoken about how his studio isn’t feeling any strain to make an identical leap into on-line multiplayer.
In a dialog with Eurogamer at GDC 2025, Choi spoke about how attempting out Elden Ring: Nightreign motivated Neowiz to make the upcoming Overture enlargement pretty much as good because it probably might. The sensation got here from seeing FromSoftware stepping out of its wheelhouse to try to ship a extra conventional multiplayer expertise.
“I’ve tried [Nightreign] and it was very refreshing and new,” mentioned Choi. “In order that clearly gave me the impression that they’re good builders, they at all times push their boundaries, their creativeness and imaginative and prescient, and it exhibits. In flip, that for some motive motivated me to ship the Overture expertise pretty much as good because it may very well be.”
Choi additionally spoke about how, with the discharge of the Overture enlargement, Neowiz desires to enhance on Lies of P in nearly each facet. The studio took loads of what it discovered from making the bottom recreation and is making use of it to make the DLC a greater expertise. Nonetheless, Neowiz can also be open to some day engaged on a multiplayer title, based on Choi.
“Our major focus from the idea of this recreation was to ship a top quality, premium motion recreation that’s single-player,” he mentioned. “There have been loads of learnings for us [from the base game] and we did our greatest to replicate these enhancements. The enlargement is the completion of that.”
“By way of our future endeavours, we’re positively open to any form of consideration sooner or later.”
In discussing how the Soulslike style might see future enhancements, Choi spoke about how Neowiz wasn’t involved in attempting to foretell how the style would form out sooner or later. The studio is as a substitute extra centered on bringing its personal imaginative and prescient to life. Choi additionally desires followers of Lies of P to begin taking a look at Neowiz as a mark of high quality the place they will count on distinctive experiences, relatively than shoehorning all of its titles into one or two genres.
“That’s one thing we mentioned internally fairly a bit,” mentioned Choi. “As a substitute of attempting to foretell how the Soulslike style goes to be sooner or later, what we’re specializing in is to actually discover our personal color and the factors of attraction. And by crafting our personal recreation to raised meet and fulfill the shoppers’ demand, we consider that we are going to construct belief and credibility with our followers.”
“Sooner or later, as a substitute of pegging us right into a sure style, we would like the followers to have a look at us and truly know what kind of distinctive elements that we ship that they stay up for. In order that they see our subsequent work as a form of projection of our belief and characters that we’re constructing transferring ahead.”
Lies of P: Overture is presently below improvement for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Collection X/S. The enlargement doesn’t but have a launch date, however is slated for a Summer season 2025 launch window.
