Lies of P continues to be one of the crucial celebrated Soulslikes made outdoors of FromSoftware, and we have recognized for over two years a sequel was occurring. Now, we have discovered it is entered the „vertical slice“ stage.
Writer-developer Neowiz’s Q1 2026 earnings report confirmed the second sport has reached the „full-scale dev part“, however on the time of writing, the report has it restricted to the „vertical-slice“ step. A vertical slice is a small demonstrable portion of a sport that is meant to symbolize what the total sport might be like, often used to persuade executives a couple of sport’s general path and imaginative and prescient.
Neowiz is clearly all in favour of increasing the IP and turning it into an everlasting franchise, however particulars are being saved a secret for now. Maybe extra attention-grabbing is the replace on the standing of Venture Windi, one other Soulslike RPG from Kay Lee, who directed Vindictus at Nexon, that is now within the prototype stage. It is not the primary time we have examine it, however we now know it has been progressing steadily, too.
In the meantime, the narrative RPG dubbed Venture Rubicon, directed by Buried Stars‘ Seungho Jin, has entered the vertical-slice part alongside the Lies of P sequel. Whereas this mission – in addition to Venture Windi – might be new IPs, the true natures of the initiatives have not been revealed but.
Whereas Neowiz’s latest strikes, we have additionally discovered Round8 Studio – the developer behind Lies of P – is seeking to fill an „AI Creator“ function that may create „idea drafts“ with instruments like Secure Diffusion and Midjourney, and combine AI software program into „current artwork workflows to cut back manufacturing time and construct an environment friendly AI artwork pipeline“, amongst different issues. It is not the primary time Neowiz has expressed a rising curiosity in AI-assisted sport growth.
Eurogamer’s three-star evaluation of Lies of P stated it has „robust sufficient foundations in its edgy tone and tweaked weapons“, however „it is extremely unlikely that they’re going to have the ability to beat the originals at their very own sport“.
