Night Lights is a fairly simple puzzle game, with a basic mechanic of light and darkness - light makes certain objects disappear, or activates certain objects, like elevators that allow you to reach new areas in a level. Later on you get the ability to double jump, and then to dash, but it's only used to reach previously unreachable sections of the levels. Levels are fairly linear, and the game world is fairly small, but it gets milked for all it has. Once you get the ability to double jump, and later on to carry a light of your own, you're forced to revisit the same levels and hunt down the areas you couldn't reach previously. All it manages to achieve is to make the game feel cheaper. Night Lights also feels far too long for what it is - objects and puzzles repeat themselves far too often, and the light-dark theme doesn't allow for distinct looking levels - after a while every level blends together. The only difficulty appears towards the end, when you have to dodge projectiles while jumping from platform to platform, and trying to activate the various abilities you received at the same time.
The biggest problem with Judas is that it tricks the player early on, for some unexplained reason. Early on your path is blocked, and you're told to move the objects blocking it using the mouse. You then reach a door you can't open using the mouse - you need to use the 'E' key to interact with it. But the game never informs you of that key. I was close to rage quitting at that point and asking for a refund, before deciding to try every key on the keyboard to see what works. And that jankyness continues throughout the game. Certain events need to be triggered, but it seems some of those triggers are opening and closing doors and wandering around aimlessly. Puzzles are fairly simple, and if they're not there's usually a piece of paper with text telling you what to do next. The only difficulty comes from just how dark everything is, leading to missing some item you need to pick up, or not being able to interact with an item unless you crouch down. The audio is good enough, but has no connection to the game - rather a generic spooky track is played in a loop. The plot is pretty thin, and is only loosely connected to what you do in the game. It seems like the game is missing a large prologue, in order to explain certain things you see in the game - such as a book you find. As for horror, there isn't any. Only a few jump scares, and some spooky imagery. Occasionally you get visuals that seem very well put together, and seem too good for this game, but they aren't good enough to make this game worth playing. Overall, Judas is a janky 1 hour distraction, that badly conveys its plot.
