When The Light Dies Preview (Steam Early Access)
When The Light Dies Preview, When the Light Dies is a survival game with roguelite elements set in a desolate, frozen wilderness. Step into a murky world of shadow and obscurity as a lone survivor fighting to keep the darkness and the horrors that lurk within at bay.
When The Light Dies Preview Pros:
- Decent pixel art graphics.
- Download size.
- Full controller support.
- Graphics settings – screen mode, shadows, brightness slider, and contrast slider.
- Controller settings – aim lock, and you can remap controls.
- Roguelike survival gameplay.
- Tutorial level that is replayable.
- Light plays a huge part as you cannot see anything when you have no light, light only shows a radius around you.
- Cold can affect and eventually kill you so lighting fires and being indoors are key to survival.
- Twin stick controls.
- The stamina bar dictates how much you can run at one time.
- Sanity is used when you use a special ability, as your sanity goes down enemies become stronger.
- Earn currency at the end of enemy waves.
- As you do things and kill enemies you earn exp and when you level up you pick one of three upgrades.
- Run-based gameplay loop.
- Three types of currency – teeth, eyes, and pulsating hearts are used to buy permanent upgrades and unlocks.
- Handy hover text on the ui and items.
- End of run breakdown.
- Unlock and equip one of four starting weapons.
- Has a great tense atmosphere.
- You can find other camps which enables you to explore the world a bit.
When The Light Dies Preview Cons:
- Bare minimum graphics settings.
- No Steam achievements.
- Has a slower pace than you would think.
- The stick-as-a-mouse system isn’t always ideal for menus.
- Levelling up in game (which happens a lot!) causes the game to momentarily pause then the upgrades show. You don’t get any level-up text, notification, or noise.
- Only one character at the moment.
- The gameplay is slow and doesn’t offer anything unique at the moment.
- It doesn’t have the hook from what I’ve played that keeps you coming back.
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When The Light Dies:
Developer: Electric Monkeys, Secret Level Studios
Publisher: PQube
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