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 stress to make an identical bounce 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 growth nearly as good because it presumably might. The sensation got here from seeing FromSoftware stepping out of its wheelhouse to attempt 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 exhibits. In flip, that for some cause motivated me to ship the Overture expertise nearly as good because it might be.”
Choi additionally spoke about how, with the discharge of the Overture growth, Neowiz needs to enhance on Lies of P in nearly each facet. The studio took a variety of what it realized from making the bottom sport 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, in keeping with Choi.
“Our major focus from the idea of this sport was to ship a top quality, premium motion sport that’s single-player,” he mentioned. “There have been a variety of learnings for us [from the base game] and we did our greatest to replicate these enhancements. The growth is the completion of that.”
“By way of our future endeavours, we’re positively open to any kind of consideration sooner or later.”
In discussing how the Soulslike style might see future enhancements, Choi spoke about how Neowiz wasn’t fascinated about 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 needs followers of Lies of P to begin taking a look at Neowiz as a mark of high quality the place they’ll anticipate distinctive experiences, slightly 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 sport to higher meet and fulfill the purchasers’ 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 wish the followers to have a look at us and really know what kind of distinctive elements that we ship that they sit up for. In order 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 below growth for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Collection X/S. The growth doesn’t but have a launch date, however is slated for a Summer time 2025 launch window.
