Lies of P dev’s new game is a sci-fi survival horror

Lies of P developer Round8 Studio is poised to release Lies of P’s first DLC Q1 2025, but it’s also been uncovered that the studio is working on a brand-new game. This time it’s a sci-fi-set survival horror.

Revealed on EBN (via GamingBolt), a NEOWIZ representative revealed the game’s setting and genre as well as that it’ll be made on Unreal Engine 5, that said, they also stopped there as it’s too early to go into too much detail. What is out there right now, though, can certainly make us look forward to whatever this new project entails.

Lies of P was last year’s hit soulslike released by Round8 and NEOWIZ, it garnered a great deal of success and last we heard, the game surpassed seven million players. It hasn’t forgotten the IP, though, alongside its upcoming DLC, a sequel is in the works, with some indicators pointing to it being open world.

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