Lies of P

“The combat system combines skillful timing mechanics with precise controls, making every attack, dodge, and parry feel satisfying and rewarding, with a strong sense of control and mastery.”

“Lies of p brilliantly blends mechanics and feel from sekiro and bloodborne, featuring a parry mechanic similar to sekiro's and a rally mechanic inspired by bloodborne, creating a unique and rewarding gameplay experience.”

“The gameplay is addictive and very enjoyable, offering challenging yet fair combat that requires mastery of the perfect guard (parry) mechanic, supported by a robust weapon customization and legion arm system, making it a standout souls-like experience.”

“The music in this game is absolutely stunning and the use of vinyls in the hotel to help Pinocchio gain his humanity is such an interesting way to use music in a game.”

“The soundtrack is phenomenal and memorable, the combat is difficult yet satisfying (especially when you finally get the kill on a boss you have died to numerous times), the world feels unique and engrossing, and the character design is absolute cinema with P looking utterly stunning in just about every outfit he wears.”

“The music is the soul of this game. Every song you collect tells a different short story along the same themes of grief, longing, and even hope. Everything is so well thought out in this game and it ties together perfectly.”

“Graphically, Lies of P is a stunning game with excellent visual fidelity and realistic lighting. The gothic-steampunk setting is the perfect place to show off the highly detailed textures, with a lot of intricate details needed to be included with such a detail-heavy aesthetic.”

“The graphics engine delivers impressive lighting effects, clean textures, and a subtle grain that ties everything together beautifully.”

“The art style is beautiful, the environments are breathtaking and look straight out of an oil painting. The weapon designs are varied and the combat feels amazing once you get the hang of it.”

“Lies of p has its own identity: a dark, beautiful world, unforgettable atmosphere, excellent level design, satisfying combat, emotional storytelling, and some of the most stylish weapons and bosses in the genre.”

“The atmosphere especially is where this game shines; the French-inspired architecture in this game and the classical, jazz and orchestral music woven throughout really sells the game's setting while the ambience—the harsh weather, derelict buildings and cars along with trashed streets lined with broken puppets and garbage—sells the dark fantasy side of things.”

“From the moment you awaken in the decaying city of Krat, the game wraps you in a suffocating atmosphere—cobblestone streets bathed in gaslight, grotesque automatons lurking in alleys, and a soundtrack that oscillates between melancholy and menace.”

“Top tier optimization.”

“Not only is this the greatest souls-like ever made (easily), but it's also one of the most well optimized games I've played in ages, it really does run like a dream.”

“Technically, the game is flawlessly optimized.”

“I have never been more connected with the characters in a video game, and the lore with its constant balance between beauty and gut-wrenching moments genuinely sent me on an emotional rollercoaster for the entire game.”

“The story is so heart wrenching and good it made me cry, please buy the DLC with the game if you can, you won't regret it.”

“Lies of P masterfully intertwines its story with the gameplay, cohesively connecting each development and discovery in a distinct and profoundly emotional manner.”

“The combat is very rewarding and is decently balanced as you progress with little to no grinding required for the most part in my experience.”

“The leveling process isn't too grindy either.”

“The leveling in this game is very proportional to where you are in the story; it is not grindy at all, and you will never feel the need to over level to defeat bosses.”

“The game also has good replayability, as New Game+ and New Game++ unlock additional p-organ phases, alongside alternative story choices, different endings, and opportunities to experiment with new weapons and builds.”

“You will more than get your money's worth from this game, especially if you do New Game+ 3 times to complete everything and do all the endings; the combat was so good it had me wanting to keep doing more runs. This is my 2nd time playing this game, 6 times total for runs as I already beat it on console years ago, decided to get it on PC when the DLC dropped, which adds a ton more replay value to the game and is well worth it.”

“The replay value is high due to multiple endings, multiple build paths, multiple short and engaging side quests resolved differently, multiple cosmetics, multiple weapon combinations, and multiple New Game+ runs!”

“The game is very polished and runs great.”

“No glitches at launch and no glitches these days either.”

“Hopefully other companies will take note of how to release a complete and bug free game such as this.”

“It feels like the developers constantly were like: "you know what would be funny", "naah, you know what would be funnier???" and just kept out-bs-ing themselves until the final version of the game...”

“The premise of Pinocchio in a Bioshock-esque futuristic steampunk world leads to both really funny bits of tying the sci-fi horror to the material it's referencing and also genuinely laudable worldbuilding and character moments.”

“The combat is a blast with mastering strict parry timings that reward you greatly with a stance break mechanic, a wide variety of different (prosthetic? does this term even apply to a puppet?) arms on Mr. P to take advantage of an enemy's weakness or shortcomings, or even overload the stats it ramps off of to make the arm a complement to fit in-between attacks or stance break windows, and tons of weapon combinations (while not all of them useful, they can be hilariously dumb looking).”

“Beautiful game, good voice acting, great characters, great character development, and really really good story (as long as you find all the lore stuff and read it so everything makes sense).”

“The story and character development are top notch, the re-imagining of Pinocchio, the twisted story that takes it from a "be good or else," to "lies may prove more useful in the end." The story twists keep you guessing until the very end.”

“The character development, the story, the conclusions to all the different characters' side stories were absolutely phenomenal.”

“All in all, this developer has skyrocketed to the top of my radar, and the love and amount of content they poured into a single-player game with no microtransactions has made it so that their next game will be a day one for me.”

“A relatively unknown developer releases a dedicated single-player RPG, with deep combat mechanics, a solid narrative, no microtransactions, and despite being inspired by a popular franchise manages to have its own identity and innovation on an established genre.”