Lords of the Fallen 2 won’t have a political agenda but it will have hot women. That’s according to the director of the studio behind the sequel who is busy with culture war dog whistles while fans just want a new Soulslike that learns from the mistakes of the previous game.
“Many of you asked why the game initially had body type A/B,” CI Games CEO Marek Tyminski posted on X to no one in particular over the weekend. “Hexworks started early 2020 as an autonomous studio owned by CI Games. Early on, political correctness and filtering meant not every decision reached me on time. I got a lot more involved from late 2024 and now act as Head of Studio alongside my CEO role.”
He continued, “Things are very different now and the studio got fully integrated. We reverted a lot of wrong decisions and will continue improving. Lords II is being built on real player feedback, and it’s crystal clear in the last two trailers.” What a normal way to promote a mostly CGI teaser that could have cost over half a million dollars to air during the Game Awards last week.
“I’m gonna buy the game, definitely,” wrote back one X user. “Will there be attractive female characters, and will there be revealing outfits and armor for them?” Tyminski simply responded with “yes.” There have always been weird video game players out there, but there haven’t always been video game developers so happy to indulge them like this.
Lords of the Fallen arrived in 2023 and was technically a successor to a game of the same name that had already released nearly a decade before that. It launched to divisive reviews and a harsh initial reception on Steam due in part to PC performance woes. There was a lot about the Soulslike that was solid, and a clever world-switching mechanic that gave it a unique identity, but it was messy and poorly paced.
Years of patches and a big free 2.0 update back in April helped turn sentiment around. It added a dedicated jump button and streamlined co-op with shared progress and a friend pass to play with people even if they didn’t own the game. A major 2.5 update, the game’s last, came out just a few days ago and added a whole new layer of polish and harder difficulty options.
It’s a neat turnaround story, in other words, and a game well worth trying out for Soulslike sickos who have been holding off. So it’s unfortunate that CI Games’ hard work keeps getting overshadowed by an outspoken, anti-PC-police boss who seems to think it’s courageous in 2025 to promise your fans more in-game boobies.
“I really hope you guys stop worrying about the grifting community that doesn’t even buy games and just make a good game,” wrote one player in response to Tyminski’s latest gooner-baiting. “All this political extra shit no actual gamer that spends money gives a fuck about. Gameplay is what we care about, end of [discussion].”
