‘The Lies of P’ won the honor of being the most awarded game at the ‘Gamescom Awards 2022’. Neowiz Co., Ltd. announced that ‘The Lie of P’, which is being developed in-house, achieved three awards for the first time as a Korean game company at the ‘Gamescom Awards 2022’.
The winners of the ‘Gamescom Awards’, which were held at Gamescom, one of the world’s top three game shows held in Cologne, Germany on the 27th (local time), were revealed through the IGN YouTube channel. On this day, ‘The Lies of P’ was selected as ‘Best Action Adventure Game’ and ‘Best Role Playing Game’. It was selected as the ‘most anticipated PlayStation game’ at ‘Opening Night Live’ on the 23rd (local time), and achieved the feat of winning three awards at the ‘Gamescom Awards’.
This is the largest number of wins at the ‘Gamescom Awards 2022’ and is also significant in that it is the first Korean game to achieve this. In 2021, FromSoftware’s ‘Elden Ring’ won awards such as ‘Best Action Adventure Game’, ‘Best Role-Playing Game’, and ‘Best PS Game’, and gained worldwide popularity after its release.
The award-winning work ‘The Lies of P’ is a Soullike single-player action RPG. Expectations for a global box office success are heightened as it attracts attention for its realistic graphics set in the Belle Epoque era of the late 19th century, its unique worldview that adapts the classic ‘Pinocchio’ into a cruel fairy tale, and its outstanding action features. It is currently being developed for console and PC platforms and is scheduled to be released in 2023.
Neowiz participated in Gamescom held from August 24th to 28th with a standalone booth. At this event, P’s Lie released a new trailer video and a two-hour demo that visitors can play, and announced the entry of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass. In particular, after the release of the trailer video, P’s lie was mentioned the most on Twitter in the United States, ranking first in overall trends, and received favorable reviews from leading overseas media such as ‘PC Gamer’ in the UK and the US, ‘Famitsu’ in Japan, and ‘IGN’ in the US. It continued.
Meanwhile, Neowiz’s casual healing adventure game ‘Aka’ also announced successive awards, winning two awards. AKA was finally selected as the ‘Best Unity Game’ at the Gamescom ‘Indie Arena Booth Awards’ and the ‘Gamescom 2022 Indie Community Choice Award’ hosted by Unity. The ‘Indie Arena Booth’, in which AKA participated, is an event held every year in conjunction with Gamescom since 2013 and is a promotional venue for indie developers around the world.
Producer Choi Ji-won, who is in charge of P’s Lie, said, “I think the achievement of three Gamescom wins is a result of proving the global expectations for P’s Lie,” and “P’s Lie, which is rewriting the history of Korean console games, is the representative of Korea.” “We will do our best to develop the game so that it becomes a fun game to play.”
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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