Lies of P: Overture

Lies of P: Overture is an expansion that exudes confidence on the part of developer Round8 Studio, which looks to have already mastered its particular brand of the soulslike format. Overture successfully enriches the entire Lies of P package, with stunning and creative level design and some of the best boss fights in the subgenre as a whole. It’s simply an unmissable experience for fans of the base game.

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Round8 Studio's expansion to Lies of P takes an already great game, and makes it truly something special.

A Grim Puppeteer's encore in blood and snow: Overture dives deeper into Krat's madness with snowfall, screams, and souls-like sadism.

Lies of P Overture is an excellent DLC that adds more brevity and complexity to an already great game. With its new environments, Arms, and weapon changes, once beloved builds will be put to the test.

Overture offers a significant amount of new content that visually, narratively, and mechanically slots easily into the base game. It doesn’t push the franchise forward, but that’s not its mission. Instead, its job is to provide fans with more of what they loved about Lies of P. In that regard, Overture is an unqualified success. New difficulty options mean that even more gamers will be able to experience Overture’s evocative world and engaging combat. Overture might not be a proper sequel, but it is a great reminder about what makes Lies of P such a fantastic Soulslike.

Despite some strange balancing issues, Lies of P: Overture offers a plethora of incredible content to an already incredible game.

Since the Souls series formula has become popular among players, countless games have tried to recapture what makes FromSoftware's hardcore action role-playing games so engaging, but only a few have managed to even get close. Among these is NEOWIZ and Round8 Studio's Lies of P, which still stands, a few years since its release, as the game that got the closest to recapturing the haunting atmosphere of the beloved Bloodborne.

Lies of P: Overture is a brilliant bit of DLC that expands one of the best soulslikes in recent years.

Overture is precisely what Lies of P always needed, more of the same, in the best possible way.

Lies of P: Overture largely retains the quality of the base game, if not improving upon it in some aspects. While it isn't particularly experimental, it is more Lies of P, and it proves why that isn't a bad thing in the slightest.

Lies of P: Overture does a fantastic job in not only bringing us new characters and new challenges, but also new levels of accessibility.