Lies of P

Krat, a city built on puppet labour, has fallen to a frenzy that turned its machines on their makers. You are a puppet who can lie, and lying, a choice the game tracks quietly, shapes who you become. The art direction, all gas lamps and ruined boulevards, is superb.

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Perfect guards and charged attacks reward aggression and precise timing; fable arts and the Legion Arm add tools for every situation. Bosses are fast and punishing. Weapon assembly lets you combine blades and handles for unusual movesets.

Weapon crafting is the standout: attach any blade to any handle and scale it with different stats. Beyond that, builds are narrower than in FromSoftware's games.

Hard. Several mid-game bosses are notorious walls, and later patches added difficulty options without spoiling the intended challenge.

Excellent performance on PC, with a high, stable frame rate. Rated Playable on Steam Deck: it works with some small text and needs reduced settings in busy areas. Also available natively on macOS.