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Lies Of P

Developer Round8 Studio

Publisher Neowiz Games

Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested), Xbox One, Xbox Series

Release Out now

Supposing you didn’t know better, you could almost mistake it for the real thing. Like a newly discovered, apparently unknown painting by an old master, Lies Of P is such a fine forgery it could convince scholars for a time, before they identified it as the work of a gifted student. The old master in this case, of course, is FromSoftware. This might slot comfortably among the works of its prolific 2010s period, most of all like a lost alternative to Bloodborne. Until, that is, you examine the brushwork up close.

Indeed, the term ‘Soulslike’ is barely

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