- Publisher: Team17
- Release Date: Jul 14, 2014
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Nov 6, 2014Light is a decent demonstration of stealth done on a smaller scale. The minimalist approach is novel, and the bare-bones stealth mechanic can be refreshing to those entering the genre for the first time.
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Games Master UKAug 24, 2014There is certainly light in this tunnel, but it doesn't shine brightly enough to reach the end. [Oct 2014, p.81]
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games(TM)Aug 20, 2014Light ends up feeling like a proof of concept, an unfinished prototype with some decent ideas that either lack depth or don't quite hit the mark. Ultimately, strong aesthetics can't compensate for that. [Sept 2014, p.126]
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Aug 13, 2014It’s difficult to recommend Light in its current state. It’s a fun game, but its so short and so easy that it doesn’t remotely justify its price.
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Aug 6, 2014An entertaining minimalist stealth action game ending way before it actually starts rocking. If the authors had spent more time with it and thus gave us more game levels, we could be talking about a great experience, not the short-lived experiment.
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Aug 5, 2014Unsatisfying, under-developed gameplay mechanics and a ridiculously short length, Light is anything but the name suggests.
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Aug 5, 2014Light has got a nice artistic direction, but that's it. Gameplay is erratic and badly conceived.
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Aug 4, 2014Everywhere you look, Light is a sloppy, unfinished game. Next time I’ll think twice before voting for games in Steam Greenlight – who knows, maybe that short stylish trailer is actually the entire game!
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Aug 4, 2014The clue is in the name… Everything is light about it. The stealth mechanics, the difficulty level, the visuals, everything.
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Jul 28, 2014The idea behind Light is certainly interesting, but the execution is not that great. It's really short and there's not much variation between the different missions.
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Jul 21, 2014After a promising start, Light's simplistic take on stealth quickly plateaus and then abruptly stops, falling well short of its potential.
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Jul 21, 2014The idea is good, and it manages to entertain, but the experience is extremely shot, so you might want to wait for an offer to buy it.
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Jul 17, 2014Light should be better than it is, but it was doomed from the start. Very few great stories have come from such an uninspired setting, and hiding all empathy and humanity behind a haughty desire for a slick minimalism doesn't help.
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Jul 16, 2014Light reaches for greatness, but ends up merely serviceable; nothing breaks or falls apart within its mechanically sound design, but nothing inspires the game to step out from the shadows of better games.
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Jul 16, 2014Light is a good game, but it is too short and doesn't last more than an hour.
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Jul 16, 2014All in all, Light is an extremely short experience, easily beaten in just over an hour. If other levels were added, perhaps community-forged ones via the Steam Workshop, the value proposition might be better but as it is, there’s not much content here - a scant twelve levels.
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Jul 16, 2014Light has great ideas but fails to use them in any meaningful way or make any lasting impression - it's like the setup to a great game that never comes. Shame.
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Jul 14, 2014Simply put, Light is just a joy to play and experience.
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Jul 13, 2014Light appears to stick with the bare minimum at first glance, but the slick presentation, stylized visuals and memorable music come together to create a fun and pure stealth action game.
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Jul 10, 2014It’s tough to wholeheartedly recommend Light given its imperfect brevity, but if you couldn't care less about the $12.99 price tag, then by all means give it a try.
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Jul 4, 2014Light is a cool idea, and has a wonderful style to it, but the gameplay choices the developers made have just made it too easy.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 11
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Mixed: 4 out of 11
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Negative: 5 out of 11
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