Neowiz (Co-CEO Seung-cheol Kim, Tae-geun Bae) announced on the 28th that ‘Lies of P’, which is being developed in-house, became the first in the Korean game industry to win three crowns at the ‘Gamescom Awards 2022’.
The winners of the ‘Gamescom Awards’ held at Gamescom, the world’s top three game show, held in Cologne, Germany on the 27th (local time) were released through the IGN YouTube channel. On this day, ‘P’s Lies’ was selected as ‘Best Action Adventure Game’ and ‘Best Role Playing Game’.
At the ‘Opening Night Live’ on the 23rd (local time), after being selected as the ‘Most Wanted Sony PlayStation Game’, it achieved three trophies at the ‘Gamescom Awards’.
This is the most ‘Gamescom Awards 2022’, and it is meaningful in that it is the first achievement for a Korean game. In 2021, FromSoftware’s ‘Elden Ring’ won ‘Best Action-Adventure Game’, ‘Best Role-Playing Game’ and ‘Best PS Game’, and gained worldwide popularity after its release.
The award-winning P’s Lies is a soul-like single-player action RPG. With realistic graphics set in the Belle Epoque era at the end of the 19th century, a unique worldview adapted from the classic ‘Pinocchio’ into a cruel fairy tale, and outstanding action, expectations for global box office are rising. It is currently under development for console and PC platforms and is expected to be released in 2023.
Neowiz participated in Gamescom held from August 24th to 28th as an exclusive booth. At this event, P’s Lies released a new trailer video and a two-hour demo that visitors can play directly, and announced the news of Microsoft’s entry into the Xbox Game Pass. In particular, after the trailer video was released, the falsehood of P was mentioned the most on Twitter in the United States, recording ‘trend number 1’.
On the other hand, Neowiz’s casual healing adventure game ‘Aka’ also announced the news of the award and won two awards. Aka was finally selected for 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 annually with Gamescom since 2013, and is a place of publicity for indie developers around the world.
PD Choi Ji-won, who is in charge of P’s lies, said, “I think that the achievement of three gamescom titles is the result of a proven result of global expectations for P’s lies. We will do our best to develop the game so that it becomes a game.”
