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Lies of P is getting difficulty options, but devs assure that it’s still as hard

We recently attended a Q&A session at Lies of P Overture‘s preview event, where game director Choi Ji-won revealed that two easier difficulty levels are being added to the base game, alongside two harder modes for boss rush. While he assures us that the Bloodborne-esque, Victorian-themed adventure “is always [going to be] hard,” the move will open up the game to a whole slew of new players, while the additional boss rush difficulties challenge soulslike veterans.

The topic of difficulty came up a few times during the session which, in many ways, makes sense. At its core, Lies of P is a soulslike game and, by definition, it’s supposed to be as hard as nails. Adding different challenge ratings somewhat flies in the face of the very essence of what these games are meant to be.

Choi confirms that the reasoning behind the decision is to open the game up to a wider player base in an attempt to capture the audience that likely wrote it off as being too much of a challenge. More people playing can only be a good thing and, given Lauren’s glowing Lies of P review, they won’t be disappointed.

He also jokes that the game “is always difficult,” but states that titles like Lies of P aren’t about being needlessly difficult, but instead creating a sense of accomplishment in players when they finally “figure it out,” whether that be a tough boss or tricky area.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Lies of P’s boss rush mode is getting even harder, with two new difficulty settings that ramp the pressure up to eleven. Defeating these fearsome foes will net you various exclusive rewards, so if you really want to prove that you are, in fact, Krat’s finest warrior, you can do so.

But, while the difficulty changes are certainly the headliner, I had one question in mind: why is Overture a prequel, and does it have anything to do with the multiple endings and not wanting to commit to which one was canon? I put this question to Choi.

He confirms that Lies of P’s branching storyline has nothing to do with this decision. Instead, the reason Overture is a prequel is because there was a lot of content that simply didn’t make it into the base game. With Overture included, now Lies of P feels like a “complete version” of Choi and the team’s vision.

Lies of P Overture is set to release sometime in 2026 and will cost $29.99. You can wishlist it here. A free update is also coming to the base game that will introduce a host of fresh features, including the aforementioned difficulty settings and a new Boss Rush mode.

In the meantime, however, check out our list of all the best action games if you’re looking to get back into practice. Or, if you’re wondering where Overture fits in your gaming timeline, we have a rundown of all the upcoming PC games for 2025 and beyond.

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21/05/2025
Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest hotfix gets rid of “trippy, high-saturation graphical artefacts”, but also totally breaks everyone’s immersion by making cats actually obey people

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Patch 8 was the game’s last big update, but it’s still getting handly little hotfixes to iron out bugs and issues. The latest, hotfix 31, takes care of plenty of stuff like that, including a pretty wacky-sounding visual glitch, but I do have to take issue with one of its tweaks to photo mode.

You can find the full notes for hotfix 31 here, and they make for refreshingly light reading compared to the great big tomes of tweaks the game’s full updates often dropped with.

The most eye-catchjing of its fixes, and the one Larian’s led with, aims to stop folks having a “kaleidoscope of colours” appear on sceen when their party switches locations. This Aurora Badrealis is apparently made up of “trippy, high-saturation graphical artefacts”, and was prone to cropping up when you teleported via a waypoint.

Aside from that Larian’s “removed some defunct dialogue that mistakenly made it into Minthara’s Speak with Dead dialogue in Patch 8”, with players reckoning this is the cut chatter Minty had about having a daughter, which never made it into the final game.

Staying with Patch 8, the new subclasses that added to the game are subject of a whole host of fixes, including one that nixes a bug that let sneak attacks be triggered on activating Dirty Trick: Sand Toss, and another which was causing Shadow Blade to lose properties like bonus damage when you lost conditions like concentration.

But enough of those, which you can read more about in the full notes. One of Larian’s two photo mode tweaks is downright scandalous. The studio’s “fixed wild-shaped boars and cats not paying proper attention to the ‘Look at Camera’ option”. Larian, cats totally ignoring you when you try to get them to look at a camera so you can take a photo of their funny little face is like 2/3 of the whole experience of owning a cat – I assume wild-shape cats are no different.

You can’t just go against nature like this in game that features all kinds of magic, goblins, and shaggable brain-eating tentacle dudes who appear in your dreams. Won’t somebody think of the immersion? What is being exposed to this going to do to our precious realism?

Do you and you cat agree with this fix? Are they looking everywhere but the screen as you hold them you to it in a vain attempt to get them to answer that question? Let us know below while all of us keep on waiting for whatever Larian’s next game is.

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14/05/2025
New RPG Erenshor looks like classic MMOs, but there’s no grind and you play solo

What if you could play an MMO completely on your schedule? That’s the central thesis of new RPG Erenshor. It takes the style of Old School Runescape and the lived-in feeling of World of Warcraft, but flips these persistent virtual lands completely on their heads. Erenshor certainly looks like a classic MMORPG, with hundreds of ‘players’ questing and battling alongside you, but they’re not real people. Instead, this is a single-player game made to emulate the joys of ’90s MMOs, and it’s out now.

As someone who’s spent hundreds of hours in Final Fantasy 14, Erenshor immediately caught my eye. It looks like OSRS at a glance thanks to the vast open world, dungeons, and ostensible players scurrying about, but it couldn’t be more different. Instead of playing with actual people, you’re accompanied by what developer Burgee Media calls ‘Simplayers.’ These NPCs progress independently, persistently exist in the world, and group up alongside you just as MMO players would – but they’re not actual players.

You hunt monsters, complete quests, and earn mountains of gold just like WoW or Guild Wars, but it’s not in service of the grind. Instead, you’ll build a character just as you would in a single-player RPG.

The first day you start up Erenshor and begin the tutorial (a right of passage in any MMO), that’s when the ‘server’ becomes ‘live.’ The NPCs will progress right alongside you, all in pursuit of growth. So if you find some armor or weapons you don’t need, you can give them to the NPCs to help them become more powerful. When you come to a particularly difficult raid or dungeon, you can then recruit these characters to fight alongside you, that gear still slumped over their shoulders or in their hands.

Becoming part of the world in an MMO also means putting your quest to save the world aside, and Erenshor embraces this with open arms. If you want to simply explore, dig into the world’s history, or hunt for loot, you can do that. Burgee Media wants you to reexperience the feeling of playing a classic MMO, but without that same level of commitment.

Burgee Media has launched Erenshor in Steam Early Access now, with a demo also available. You can get involved right here.

If you’re looking for more, we’ve got all the new MMOs to watch out for, alongside the best multiplayer games to dive into with some friends.

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15/04/2025
Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s Nintendo Switch 2 edition will make you fork out for DLC separately, but hey, it’s not like you’ll already have spent a lot on other Switch 2 stuff

Since Nintendo revealed its new console, the prices of Switch 2 itself, Mario Kart World and the Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour have all discourses.

There’s even been some spamming of ‘DROP THE PRICE’ by fans in Treehouse livestream chats and some subtweeting by Reggie Fils-Aimé about the Welcome Tour not being free. It’s ok though, it’s not like if you get the Switch 2 edition of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’ll have to buy the DLC/expansion pass separately. Oh no, hang on, you do.

Nintendo has confirmed as much in a statement to IGN, saying: “The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition does not include The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Expansion Pass DLC. That DLC is available as a separate purchase.”

Very to the point, but what it’ll mean for you depends on your current Breath of the Wild ownership status. If you already own the game on OG Switch as well as all its DLC, and opt to buy the $10 “upgrade pack” that turns it into the Switch 2 edition on that console, you’ll not need to buy the DLC again.

However, if you don’t already own the DLC, just upgrading isn’t gonna hand it to you for free. The main folks affected by this are people who don’t own the game at all, and buy the Switch 2 edition, which will costs $70. Since it’s not included, they’ll end up paying $90 in total for Switch 2 Breath of the Wild plus DLC, since the game’s expansion pass costs $20.

Is it that egregious a decision on its own? Not really, even if it’s kinda taking p**s with a game from 2017. However, when taken alongside all the other stuff I mentioned earlier, it does seem like Nintando kinda bumbling into kicking itself in the dick again from a PR perspective.

Are you currently staring at your bank account wondering how you’re going to send half of your lide savings to Nintendo and still afford unimportant things like rent and food? Let us know below!

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14/04/2025