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 analogous soar into on-line multiplayer.
In a dialog with Eurogamer at GDC 2025, Choi spoke about how making an attempt out Elden Ring: Nightreign motivated Neowiz to make the upcoming Overture enlargement pretty much as good because it presumably may. 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 all the time push their boundaries, their creativeness and imaginative and prescient, and it reveals. In flip, that for some cause 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 needs to enhance on Lies of P in nearly each facet. The studio took plenty 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 be open to some day engaged on a multiplayer title, based on Choi.
“Our main 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 plenty of learnings for us [from the base game] and we did our greatest to mirror these enhancements. The enlargement is the completion of that.”
“By way of our future endeavours, we’re undoubtedly open to any kind of consideration sooner or later.”
In discussing how the Soulslike style may see future enhancements, Choi spoke about how Neowiz wasn’t serious about making an attempt 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 needs followers of Lies of P to begin Neowiz as a mark of high quality the place they will anticipate distinctive experiences, moderately 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 making an attempt to foretell how the Soulslike style goes to be sooner or later, what we’re specializing in is to essentially discover our personal color and the factors of attraction. And by crafting our personal recreation to raised meet and fulfill the shoppers’ demand, we imagine 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 wish the followers to have a look at us and really know what kind of distinctive elements that we ship that they look ahead to. So that they see our subsequent work as a kind of projection of our belief and characters that we’re constructing shifting ahead.”
Lies of P: Overture is at the moment underneath growth for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S. The enlargement doesn’t but have a launch date, however is slated for a Summer time 2025 launch window.
