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 recreation.
Treasured little continues to be identified about this DLC. We have now 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 liked Lies of P, with this pseudo-roadmap for the studio stemming from Korean information web site EBN. As for Studio 8’s subsequent recreation, a spokesperson acknowledged the sport can be developed with Unreal Engine 5 and is focusing on each PC and consoles.
Spherical 8 has acknowledged the sport can be a “survival horror venture set in a SF world”, and has begun hiring workers for this recreation. When requested by EBN, a spokesperson acknowledged that “it’s nonetheless too early to reveal the progress of the venture”, 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 Lifeless House remake was beloved by many, it did not show standard sufficient to warrant extra exploring into the sequence 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 could discover extra hope and advantage within the indie house. Whereas not precisely in the identical vein because the beforehand talked about video games, Mouthwashing has confirmed extraordinarily standard (too proper, it is implausible) garnering an enormous 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.
In the end, the style is ripe for extra consideration. And, with Spherical 8 proving itself an important expertise at creating new IPs, it is in a main place to do properly. We’ll have to sit down again and see what it cooks up!