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Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Primal Light is a 2d platformer, pixel graphics and action-adventure game developed and published by Fat Gem.
Released on July 08th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, French, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Russian and Turkish.

It has received 394 reviews of which 322 were positive and 72 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.70€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Primal Light into these genres:

2D Platformer Pixel Graphics Action-Adventure Side Scroller Precision Platformer Retro Difficult Indie Singleplayer Old School Action Beautiful Great Soundtrack Linear Colorful Adventure Fantasy Platformer 2D Exploration

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7, 8, or 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600, or equivalent
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: MacOS 10.12, or newer
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, or equivalent
  • Storage: 200 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: N/A
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600, or equivalent
  • Storage: 200 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
Superb game! Primal Light is delightful! It is challenging in the righ way, without ever being unfair. While it takes some minutes to get into the game style, when you do get it, it is extremely fun and rewarding. The controls are just right in every aspect and the level design is top tier. Great visuals and great, original atmosferic soundtrack make it even better. My advice: treasure this game in your heart as you did with the best 16-bit games of the past. I can see myself playing this game at least once a year for the rest of my life, as I do with some classics. Congratulations, devs! (Another advice: start playing on the lowest difficulty, even if you're already experienced with this type of game. While the game isn't devastatingly difficult, starting off on anything other than easy can be frustrating, which clearly is not the purpose of Primal Light.)
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Feb. 2025
Review Primal Light is a pretty good action-platformer. It draws heavily from the old school days of the platformer genre, and the pixel art complements this impression. The Highlights [*]The pixel art details are amazing. The backgrounds, the tile sets, the enemy sprites, and the bosses; it's all marvelous, high-quality pixel art. It's a top highlight. [*]The gameplay is like the old school 2D platformers. It's stage-based; there are checkpoints scattered in a few points, and you have 5 lives to spare. If you lose all your lives, you start from the beginning of the stage. [*]The game's difficulty is pretty good; it's challenging. You can choose 3 difficulties at the start; I chose the Veteran one, which is supposed to be the normal difficulty. [*]It's a stage-based game, but there are alternative paths you can go through, and the game rewards your exploration with extra lives, increased health/heals, and charms, which give you permanent gameplay attributes (like in Hollow Knight ), but you can only equip two at a time at checkpoints. [*]Also, in each stage, you get a new movement ability, like slide, dash, or double jump. The Drawbacks [*]I know it was common in the old school days, but the instant kill abysses are just... not fun. Especially in the endgame areas. Conclusion: Primal Light is a well-developed game; it has good pace, challenging difficulty, exploration, and breathtaking aesthetics. It's very short, but it was fun to play almost all the way through to the end. It's a good game; the developers should be proud. The score is: 7/10
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Dec. 2024
"Primal Light" is a great old-school action-platformer by only two devs and a sincere bow to the classics. The pixel-art is gorgeous, the sound is very atmospheric, the worldbuilding is bizarrely-stylish and raw, gameplay is smooth and the level-design is solid. Bosses felt also good. Some enemy- and trap-placement can get a little gnarly, but that is to be expected if you really want to emulate the genre feel. Overall it really is not that difficult, even on "Hardcore" if you played these games before. But hey, you can NG+ the game multiple times if thats your thing. The only caveat was that I could not equip the charms until I mashed keys on them, which was bizarrely off (but a thing, if you look up the community hub???). Also the ladder climbing-animation is a little derpy, but thats a minor gripe. A solid recommendation for every genre fan!
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July 2024
Feels like a really good SNES platformer lost to time. Very short though (2.5 hours). Sound & visuals were great. The game has multiple New Game+ that apparently increases things like the amount of enemies, but I have not tried this yet.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Primal Light is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.

Primal Light is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.

Primal Light received 322 positive votes out of a total of 394 achieving a rating of 7.65.
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Primal Light was developed and published by Fat Gem.

Primal Light is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Primal Light is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Primal Light is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Primal Light is a single-player game.

Primal Light does not currently offer any DLC.

Primal Light does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Primal Light does not support Steam Remote Play.

Primal 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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Release 08 Jul 2020
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