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Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Walls are watching you!
Golden Light is a 3d, action and singleplayer game
developed and published by Mr. Pink.
Released on March 11th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, Russian, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 3,486 reviews of which 2,994 were positive and 492 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.63€ on K4G.
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- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i-5-4000+
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 1Gb
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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I've spent a lot of time playing Golden Light (my Steam playtime is a bit misleading since half of the time was offline while I was traveling or without internet access). I've explored its world, met its monsters, talked to some, eaten others, and acted as both friend and foe to the ubiquitous Gut. But, I am not sure I can adequately describe Golden Light. Yes, it is a first-person survival horror action/stealth game with randomly generated dungeons, a persistent overworld, and roguelike elements. That description may lead you to believe you have played games like Golden Light. Let me assure you that you have not. You know how people describe the modern Doom games as playable Heavy Metal albums? This game is a playable weirdcore/traumacore playlist. It's like playing a nightmare born of liminal space horror and Backrooms wikis, complete with the flailing, imprecise movement and dark, blurred vision. Golden Light is one of the most effective survival horror titles I have ever played at inducing near-constant dread, which is all the more astounding when nothing much in the game is actually that scary. Instead, the anxiety comes from the dark, surreal ambiance of the dungeons, the esoteric soundscape, and never knowing if that pile of books is actually a monster in disguise. While the horror is effective, what really captivates me about Golden Light is the surreal world it constucts. For all of the dread in the dungeons, the levels really are not dead set on killing the player (pun intended): the Gut -the world in which all of the events in the game take place- is sentient, and somewhat callous, but does not hate the player (unless the player is in turn violent and cruel). Even the individual denizens of the Gut are a mixed bag. Sure, some want to prey upon the player, but some are indifferent unless provoked. Some can even be friendly. The fascinating thing about Golden Light is that it presents an ecosystem, just not one that takes time to understand. There is a story to Golden Light. Something about a struggling writer. And a woman. Maybe the woman left the struggling writer. Maybe she died. Maybe he killed her. Maybe he turned into a dog. Maybe the woman never existed and it's all a hallucination. I don't put spoilers here because the game doesn't actually tell you a story, in fact the Gut sternly refuses to let the player think the experiences of the gut are about anything, at all. Golden Light refuses to be straightforwardly interpretable, preferring to let its bizarre locales and denizens be their own meaning, or have none at all. If I were more pretentious I would compare Golden Light to the Dao De Jing, and if I spend any more time thinking about it I might start to earnestly believe that comparison to be apt. I don't know if Golden Light is a good video game, but I know that I am glad that I experienced it. It is not for everyone. Golden Light probably is not for you, but I am not sure if that matters. Golden Light was not for me, either, and look how that went.
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wtf did i snort before playing this I don't understand anything going on here, but it's cool
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i love this game, but i used to play it in a fking potato so it was hard to play it right, now i have a better pc but its a Mac and i cant install it, please i beg u to make it available for Mac Pc's :(
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While solo play has been pretty solid Multiplayer is significantly buggy in comparison. Every time I have tried to play multiplayer its been a game to see how many bugs we can rack up. Its to a point where you ask if the dev has even played their own game in multiplayer because its so easy to find a bug in 10 minutes. Solo is good just don't expect much from multiplayer because it will involve a lot of failed invites and the game breaking causing you to quit your run and then attempt to get a working invite.
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One of the harder to review games I've done before, most of my frustrations with the game come from the way the narrative concludes; this review will be spoiler free, but I will discuss my emotions on the ending. The gameplay feels incredible. Golden Light captures the feeling of a classic dungeon crawler very well - constant swapping between weapons, unique enemies, and items with their effects randomized each run. Sometimes, a snail's head heals you and the meat face is a grenade. Other times, a snail's head is a grenade, and the meat face gives you bone shiver. Most of the time, the only way to know is to try it. This variety keeps the game feeling fun, and I still discover new mementos (perks/upgrades) constantly. One time, my eyes shot lasers when I squinted. Other times, I would be so fast that I would alert every enemy in the stage and die in seconds. Incredibly fun! Now onto my thoughts on the story - I was DESPERATE to reach the end of this game. The narrative gripped me extremely hard; the love-revolving plot made for an enticing adventure, and every new piece of lore made me wonder what would come next, how it all tied together. It did a great job giving me something to think about as I roamed the halls, and supplied me plenty of motivation to push onward and see the end. However, when I got to the end, all I felt was emptiness. The game left so, so, SO many questions unanswered. In a game like this, that can often be good! After all, an all-time favorite of mine is Signalis. The difference, in my opinion, is that Signalis answers the questions relevant to your character's story, and leaves questions about the world up to interpretation. It answer's the why, not the how. That way, the world remains mystical and otherworldly, but at the same time you still understand your character's past and what it was that drove them to take the actions they did. In Golden Light, I felt like I was trying to finish a puzzle with 15 of the 100 pieces. I understood that my character was searching for a girl after she got taken in the opening scene, I understood that they had a relationship based on the tone of that scene, but I hardly picked up any more clues beyond that (I can think of 2 more that I will leave out of this review for spoiler's sake). When I reached the end of the game, I was extremely excited to see some sort of explanation for what happened, who our character was and the past that led them to this moment. Something to tie the hooks all together! Instead, I felt confused and disappointed that there was no explanation to tie it all together. Is that the message of the game, perhaps? Sometimes, things happen in love and there is no way to know why or how? If so, that message is conveyed very strongly, but the fact that I have to question whether that is the message or not explains its main problem. I have too few pieces to feel satisfied with the narrative, to be sure that the not knowing was the message. Maybe I'll understand someday, maybe not. Either way, I love this game for its gameplay and story hooks. I just wish those hooks led to somewhere other than more hooks.
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Golden Light is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Golden Light is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Golden Light received 2,994 positive votes out of a total of 3,486 achieving a rating of 8.28.
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Golden Light was developed and published by Mr. Pink.
Golden Light is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Golden Light is not playable on MacOS.
Golden Light is not playable on Linux.
Golden Light is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for Golden Light. Explore additional content available for Golden Light on Steam.
Golden Light does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Golden Light does not support Steam Remote Play.
Golden Light is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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