Deadlight: Director's Cut

Deadlight could easily be a great game and was clearly made by devs that have potential but some issues prevent this game from really being good. For starters the atmosphere and story are great, the dialogue feels relatively natural apart from the main character and the end sequence which is difficult to pull off, the music is also pretty good and sets the mood very nicely. The scenery is also fantastic, it's incredibly well detailed and you can tell that the devs didn't rush it. The biggest problems I have with this game are firstly that the game is far too clunky, there's a recurring glitch where you keep switching sides rapidly while trying to go over a wall, additionally sometimes you can press the jump button to climb up and sometimes this inconsistency causes you to die at times you shouldn't have. Aiming also feels stiff and turning around while aiming is nearly not possible since you need to always wait for the animations to end. Secondly Randall feels far too gritty and edgy. I get that he's supposed to be a rough and tough survivalist type but he ends up being generic and uninteresting. His dialogue seems like it's supposed to be poetic and insightful but ends up being "I'm 14 and this is deep!" type stuff, for example he keeps calling the zombies "shadows" and the outbreak "a war between humans and monsters". I would have advised the devs to opt for a softer and more relatable protagonist. Lastly this game was not made by pros. You can tell that almost immediately when you start playing. I don't think that's an argument against the game necessarily but the lack of coding experience shows and makes gameplay difficult. It's a sidescrolling Unity game from 2016 and it still runs poorly on an average computer; the simple graphics of this game imply the problem stems from faulty programming. Overall, if you liked Limbo and/or Inside and enjoy Walking Dead or other zombie media then I say get this game if it goes on sale.

Great game for all kind of pc.

I grabbed Deadlight years ago on Steam. Played a good chunk of it and gave up. Recently got it free on GOG, and decided I was going to finish it, no matter what. There's a good game here, but it has issues. The art, game mechanics and level design are great, but the controls really let it down. And, I mean they really let it down. 9 times out of 10 I was dying due to losing a fight against the controls. Something about them really don't feel right. The voice acting may also be the worst I've ever heard in a game. So bad it should have been text, although it probably still would have made me cringe. There were criticisms of its length when it came out, but honestly, it probably goes on as long as it really needs to. When I hit the end I wasn't craving more, and to be honest, I was a bit baffled by the way the end scene was written. Overall, it's really not bad, but it's also really not great. It's definitely a B-grade game that took me about 3 hours to complete. If you can get it for $5 or less, it's worth a run through if you're in to platformers.

I recieved this game for free, nevertheless I felt dissapointed by it. The controls are clunky and the voice acting very mediocre. I frequently felt like it didn't react properly to my inputs, everything feels delayed. It is pretty, but dated. The story so far after an hour and a half has been utterly unengaging and I simply got bored of it.

...but I still enjoyed playing Deadlight, it's got good writing and characters, responsive controls and a world with an atmospheric sense of dread. It's a 2.5D survival game where you're tasked with shooting zombies and staying alive long enough to find out what happened to your loved ones. Simple enough right. But let's cut to the chase, as most other reviews have mentioned, this game is about 3-5 hours long. You will know already if this passes your own personal judgement on value. For me, it's worth a punt when it's discounted, but stay clear when it's anywhere near full price.