Our development teams at Round8 and Team Nough are thrilled to celebrate the surprise launch of Lies of P: Overture, available today on PS4 and PS5. Overture is a prequel DLC expansion to Lies of P, transporting our puppet hero to the city of Krat as tragedy looms. On the brink of the Puppet Frenzy massacre, you’ll control Geppetto’s puppet to discover the city’s untold stories and chilling secrets. For players who may have missed Lies of P when it originally launched, they can grab the Overture bundle. It comes with both the base game and the Overture DLC, and will be on discount to PlayStation Plus subscribers through June 18.
// YouTube embed Lies of P: Overture Launch Trailer
One major goal of our game’s director, Jiwon Choi, was to bring to life this pivotal time period of the city of Krat. The team used a lot of clever, environmental design elements to manifest this throughout Overture’s chapters. The enemies that threaten our hero, and the areas he’ll traverse, are distinct from the base game in ways that help players always feel where they are on the timeline. No area exemplifies this effort more than the new environment, Carnival Gardens.
The first thing you might notice is that the carnival looks operational! The lights are on, the rides & attractions are running… even the parade master balloon is still afloat. There’s a ton of environmental relativity that helps distinguish this from the much more dilapidated environments of the base game. The attractions also make for fun mini-games for Geppetto’s puppet to discover. He can earn useful rewards from these carnival games; don’t worry, not all the games are rigged. Fun carnival music fills the air in this area, and it sounds quite festive. If you remember the warped music playing in the Grand Exhibition Gallery in the base game, you’ll know exactly what a distinct and welcome difference this is.
Some of my favorite discoveries throughout Overture were seeing how the city’s puppets looked in a fresher state of repair. They’ll sport fresh coats of paint, well-laundered clothes, and even smoother attack animations reflecting the freshness of their mechanical joints. In contrast, most of the base game’s puppets are often missing parts and look frighteningly neglected. There’s a ton of functional storytelling as well. If you’re like me, you may have found yourself playing Lies of P originally and thinking: “Why would the citizens of Krat need these crazy, buzz saw-headed, dog puppets around? What purpose could they possibly serve these people.?” Luckily, as you play through Overture, you’ll find out.
Stalkers are pivotal characters in the culture of Krat. In Lies of P, the common encounter with a Stalker was a fight. Most were doing anything to survive or had succumbed to madness. Going back in Overture presents us with the opportunity to meet them in a more lucid state. Your interactions with the new characters in Overture continue to build on the enchanting tapestry of Krat’s twisted fairy-tale. The history you’ve read about in notes and manuscripts littered around the base game will now come to life through these interactions.
We are so excited to watch players unravel Krat’s secrets and discover this new dimension to our puppet world. Overture would not have been possible without the incredible support of our players and community. The expansion is available today, as well as a new patch for the base game. The base game patch includes new quality of life features, difficulty settings, and boss rematch modes – all at no extra cost. See you in Krat.
