Deadlight: Director's Cut

 PlayStation 4
User Score
6.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 45 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 45
  3. Negative: 10 out of 45

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  1. sityoazzdown
    Sep 8, 2019
    8
    A frustratingly good game. A 2d adventure platformer, this game has an great artstyle, and unique gameplay and concept. It's definately a fresh take on the zombie genre for myself personally. The story's a typical zombie story, but with a satisfying end. Gameplay is unqiue and the little exploration there was is worth it imo. Every section feels different and unqiue. Now here comes the badA frustratingly good game. A 2d adventure platformer, this game has an great artstyle, and unique gameplay and concept. It's definately a fresh take on the zombie genre for myself personally. The story's a typical zombie story, but with a satisfying end. Gameplay is unqiue and the little exploration there was is worth it imo. Every section feels different and unqiue. Now here comes the bad part.. the big one is that you are fighting the controls the majority of the game, it feels floaty like others have said, stiff and feels like there is a delay. I found myself jumping straigtht up when prompted for a wall jump, running straight off ledges after pressing jump, etc. The game also does a horrible job giving you hints about what to do, you literally have to squint to realize "oh i have to crouch to get pass" or oh that shadowy thing is actually climeable.."i thought it was a background art". You combine that and weird controls with trial and error game design, it gets very frustrating. This game is not hard, i don't think it even qualifies as a puzzle game (it was grouped in that category).. it just has some bs game level design, trial and error gameplay, and bad controls. If they even skimped on half of the bs i stated, this game could've very well been a 10 for me, especially for a small game, but atlas it was just a frustratingly good game for me.… Expand

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 28
  3. Negative: 1 out of 28
  1. GameCritics
    Aug 15, 2016
    75
    A success. It’s as grueling and intense as dour puzzle-platformers come, and thanks to its striking visuals and deliberate pacing, it proves an interesting and unique take on the overstuffed ‘zombpocalypse’ genre. With its tight gameplay, (mostly) great level design, and troubling vision of America in collapse, Deadlight deserves to be recognized as a standout in the genre.
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  2. DarkStation
    Aug 10, 2016
    60
    Deadlight is, for the most part, a well-paced game that doesn’t linger very long in any one area or on one activity. It is also a rather short game, clocking in at about five hours, which is rather underwhelming for its price.
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  3. GameGrin
    Jul 11, 2016
    40
    If you’re a die-hard fan of Deadlight, then you probably don’t even need to read a review to know whether or not to buy it, you’ll just do it anyway. For everyone else, this is an average game that has been surpassed in the years since it came out. There are far better 2D platformers available. You can give this one a miss.
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