Pinocchio in a city of mad puppets. Every lie you tell makes you more human — and changes your fate.

The city of Krat was built on puppet labour. Then the puppets went mad and turned on the city. P is a puppet himself, walking through the ruins looking for Geppetto, guided by a voice on the other end of a phonograph line. The story he is walking into is older and stranger than either of them knows.

Lies of P is an action RPG souls-like set in a Belle Époque-inspired city in the grip of a puppet uprising, retelling Pinocchio as a gothic horror narrative. Combat is built on a perfect guard mechanic rather than a dodge-centric approach: blocking attacks at the precise moment of impact partially restores health from chip damage and builds the stagger gauge of the attacker. Each enemy has breakable weapon arms that, once severed, changes their attack patterns. The weapon assembly system lets players combine the blade of any weapon with the handle of any other, inheriting both the moveset of the blade and the fable art of the handle. The Legion Arm is a prosthetic left arm with swappable modules offering combat tools from grappling hooks to flamethrowers. A lying mechanic runs through dialogue: P can choose to lie or tell the truth in key conversations, which accumulates humanity and affects the game's ending. The game shipped to widespread critical acclaim as the first Korean AAA souls-like.

Key Features: • Perfect guard system: precise blocks restore chip health and stagger attackers rather than pure dodge • Weapon assembly: combine any blade with any handle to create hybrid weapons with mixed movesets • Legion Arm: swappable prosthetic modules from grappling hooks to flamethrowers • Lying mechanic: truth or lies in key dialogues accumulates humanity and changes the ending • Belle Époque puppet city of Krat with boss fights built around breakable enemy weapon arms


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September 19, 2023You may also like
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