![]() “To us, Pinocchio has always been a grimly dark tale of the lies we tell to get by in a world that’s not always black and white,” said Jiwon Choi, the director of development for Lies of P. Finding your maker is key to unraveling the mystery of what happened to Pinocchio and the world. As you will know from the original story, and the hints dropped in the trailer, Geppetto is Pinocchio’s creator. Your goal is to find the whereabouts of the famed Mr. ![]() Players take on the role of puppet mechanoid Pinocchio and need to navigate a world obliterated by a plague, where all humanity is lost. The announcement of Lies of P comes with a story trailer that paints a hauntingly dark picture of the narrative. The game is described as a dark baroque take on the story. ![]() The game has received over 10,000 Steam reviews since its launch, though a few thousand of those have come in the last month amid a flood that Steam has flagged as "off-topic review activity.Neowiz and developer Round8 Studio, the same team behind Bless Unleashed, has just announced Lies of P, a new Souls-like action RPG inspired by the classic Italian novel, Pinocchio. Gorissen claims on Gab to have "brought millions of revenue to the table" for Steam, and data from Steam Charts and Game Data Crunch suggests the game has been a modest sales success since its 2017 release. The developer pushed back against this idea in an early August post, which complained that "we can't even flag the lying reviews as fraudulent because nameless, cowardly steam moderators whom we cannot interact with, have final editorial control!"īack in March, Domina drew controversy for a patch notes post that included an entreaty to "TAKE OFF THE FCKN MASKS - Next time you're at the grocery store, try showing a woman your face. Valve's message, as posted by Gorissen, also references previous communications asking Gorissen to stop clearing reviews that had been flagged by Steam moderators for other rule violations. With that in mind, we are ending our business relationship with Dolphin Barn Incorporated and removing all associated products from sale." Advertisement Gorissen also shared a forum screenshot ( mirrored on ResetEra) that includes a ban message from "a member of Steam support" citing "a recent announcement posted to the Domina community hub includes insults targeting another person. The Steam store page for Domina says the game is no longer available "at the request of the publisher." But in a post on a newly created Gab account, Dolphin Barn Interactive's Nicholas Gorissen said that is "incorrect" and that "Steam cancelled us" over the developer's views on trans people. ![]() Valve has removed Roman gladiator sim Domina from Steam after the developer used a recent patch notes post as an opportunity to rant against transgender people and the idea of changing your public gender identity.ĭolphin Barn Interactive's v 1.3.25 patch notes for the game, published on Wednesday, asks for "respect" as the game changes from its "deadname" of "Domina" to the rebranded "Dominus," which has supposedly undergone a "sex change." The thinly veiled post gets more direct as it goes on to demean a well-known trans streamer and asks players to "stop destroying the innocence of children by lying to them about basic biology." ![]()
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