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’ve got the snowy screenshot supplied by the sport director from earlier this yr, 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 beloved 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 said the sport shall be developed with Unreal Engine 5 and is concentrating on each PC and consoles.
Spherical 8 has said the sport shall be a “survival horror challenge set in a SF world”, and has begun hiring employees for this recreation. 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 huge AAA releases come out to combined reception. Whereas the Lifeless Area remake was beloved by many, it did not show widespread sufficient to warrant extra exploring into the sequence from EA. Then there’s The Callisto Protocol, which was a daring however in the end unsuccessful try and kick off a brand new IP within the AAA sci-fi horror house.
One might 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 widespread (too proper, it is incredible) garnering an unlimited fanbase on-line. You could possibly additionally level to video games like Deadly Firm 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 chief place to do effectively. We’ll have to take a seat again and see what it cooks up!