Gleamlight
- August 20, 2020
- DICO
- 3h median play time
Gleamlight is a simple 2D platformer with a pretty premise but not a lot of substance to back it up.
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Get on Xbox Games Store"Gleamlight" is a 2D action game set in a stunning, transient world made entirely of glass, where players navigate without a traditional UI to uncover an unspoken story. The game's unique art style and immersive design aim to provide an organic experience as players traverse this beautiful yet dangerous world, fighting enemies and uncovering the mystery behind the world's history, all while avoiding the damaging effects of darkness on the fragile glass environment.
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Reviews
- story36 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 81 % neutral mentions
- 19 % negative mentions
- music31 mentions
- 39 % positive mentions
- 55 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- graphics31 mentions
- 39 % positive mentions
- 55 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- gameplay25 mentions
- 16 % positive mentions
- 68 % neutral mentions
- 16 % negative mentions
- atmosphere6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
- grinding5 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- replayability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
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- 100 % negative mentions
- funny2 mentions
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- emotional2 mentions
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Critic Reviews
Gleamlight (Nintendo Switch)
Gleamlight is a simple 2D platformer with a pretty premise but not a lot of substance to back it up.
50%Gleamlight PS4 Review
Gleamlight's art style is beautiful and immersive, but the combat here is slow and tedious. With no story to latch onto it all just feels shallow. Even though the game is extremely short, your time and money are better spent elsewhere on other games in this genre.
50%Gleamlight Review
Gleamlight is worse than the majority of bad games. With most poor-quality titles, the rot is obvious from the word go. Here, the game doesn't show its true colours until you realise it's over. Surely, you'll think, it's going to pick up? It generally looks nice, after all. It was featured in at least one Indie World presentation, which is usually a mark of at least some quality. But no. It's atrocious. It's boring to traverse, feels bad to play, has an insultingly low amount of content and has nothing to recommend it. Hollow Knight is actually cheaper, and there are plenty of lower-tier Switch platformers more deserving of your time than this. FoxyLand. Goblin Sword. Polyroll. Get those three for the same price as Gleamlight, maybe less. They're not even that good, but they're ten times the game Gleamlight is. Oh! And the music's discordant clanging rubbish, too. We hope it gets a physical release so we can throw it in a bin.
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