The next game from the Lies Of P studio sounds like it might just fill a Dead Space shaped hole in my heart

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Seeing great games sell too poorly for the pursestring goblins to shell out for a sequel is always a heartache, but it really stung to learn that the incredible Dead Space remake didn’t catch on enough for EA to greenlight a remake of Dead Space 2 (even if EA were a little spotty on the details). Doubly so in the wake of The Callisto Protocol - a game I still think is worth picking up on a deep discount, if you like hitting gross things with a big bit of metal. It’s quite exciting, then, to learn that the next game from Lies Of P developer Round 8 Studios might just replace that severed limb. Alongside a sequel to the puppety soulslike, they’re also working on a sci-fi survival horror game, via Eurogamer.

The original report comes from Korean news site EBN, who also say the game will use Unreal Engine 5, although a statement from publisher Neowiz say it’s too early to disclose progress.

I quite enjoyed Lies Of P myself, despite having a bit of a bias against soulslikes in general - which always seem to focus on the mechanical specifics of FromSoft’s games while not paying much attention to all the oddities, storytelling flourishes, and sense of a cohesive world that really make those games what they are. Still, I really enjoyed the level design, which leaned heavy into the Miyazaki trick of having dudes try to push you off things. Sadistic DM-style trolling, basically - one of the major components I feel a lot of other soulslikes tend to lack.

The question I have for you though, reader, is this: am I a bit of a hypocrite for feeling like this is going to be a much more original affair than Lies Of P? I shouldn’t, really. Survival horror is, at its core, just as restrictive and formulaic a genre as yer soulslikes. Maybe it’s an issue of proliferation: even if Round 8’s new title is effectively just Dead Space, I still reckon that’ll feel so much more refreshing than another soulslike, even if it hews closely to an already-established formula. Maybe I just like to