Excellent news Lies of P followers, the sport’s upcoming DLC is ready to launch in Q1 of 2025. As well as, the developer Neowiz is at the moment engaged on a sci-fi survival horror sport.
Treasured little remains to be identified about this DLC. We have the snowy screenshot provided by the game director from earlier this year, 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 certain 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 news website EBN. As for Studio 8’s subsequent sport, a spokesperson acknowledged the sport will probably be developed with Unreal Engine 5 and is focusing on each PC and consoles.
Spherical 8 has acknowledged the sport will probably be a “survival horror undertaking set in a SF world”, and has begun hiring workers for this sport. When requested by EBN, a spokesperson acknowledged that “it’s nonetheless too early to reveal the progress of the undertaking”, 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 fascinating. We have seen some huge AAA releases come out to combined reception. Whereas the Dead Space remake was beloved by many, it did not show widespread sufficient to warrant additional exploring into the series from EA. Then there’s The Callisto Protocol, which was a daring however in the end unsuccessful try to kick off a brand new IP within the AAA sci-fi horror area.
One could discover extra hope and benefit within the indie area. Whereas not precisely in the identical vein because the beforehand talked about video games, Mouthwashing has confirmed extraordinarily widespread (too proper, it is improbable) garnering an enormous fanbase on-line. You might additionally level to video games like Lethal Company in the identical style, one other viral hit, although a far methods distant from huge AAA hits that Spherical 8 is probably going engaged on.
Finally, the style is ripe for extra consideration. And, with Spherical 8 proving itself an excellent expertise at creating new IPs, it is in a major place to do effectively. We’ll have to sit down again and see what it cooks up!