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The Light in the Darkness

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54%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, emotional
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
69% User Score Based on 29 reviews

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About The Light in the Darkness

The Light in the Darkness is a single player action game with drama and historical themes. It was developed by Voices of the Forgotten and was released on January 26, 2024. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

The Light in the Darkness tells the story of a working-class family of Polish Jews in France during the Holocaust. It is the first videogame to portray the Holocaust accurately, releasing free for educational purposes.

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69%Audience ScoreBased on 29 reviews
graphics4 positive mentions
gameplay3 negative mentions
  • The game provides a powerful, educational, and emotional portrayal of Jewish life and persecution during World War II, making it a valuable learning tool about the Shoah.
  • It features a compelling story with sympathetic characters and incorporates real photographs and historical events to enhance the historical authenticity and impact.
  • The game is accessible, free, and short in length, making it easy for a wide audience to engage with its important subject matter.
  • The gameplay is very limited and mostly involves slow walking with minimal interaction, making it feel more like a walking simulator than a traditional adventure game.
  • Technical issues on PC include poor optimization, problematic controls, graphical bugs, and inconsistent visual quality that detract from the experience.
  • The art style and some animations feel incongruent with the serious subject matter, and lack of voice acting and polishing in dialogue presentation reduce immersion.

  • story

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    18% positive mentions, 64% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    The story offers a nuanced, personal, and educational perspective on a Jewish family's experience during the Holocaust and the Axis occupation of France, emphasizing historical accuracy and humanization. However, some find it emotionally heavy, somewhat stereotypical, and with limited replay value, while others criticize its portrayal as more propagandistic or experimental than a traditional narrative. Overall, it is seen as a powerful, important story that effectively conveys the gravity of its subject matter.

    • “The story is nuanced and real, and accurate to the actual events, and with fewer and fewer Holocaust survivors being alive, this game will only become more essential.”
    • “A great personal story of a family during the Holocaust but also a story about what the hell happened to France at the time.”
    • “It's a short but effective game to give a brief glimpse at what the Jewish people experienced during WW2, and it definitely isn't a happy story.”
    • “Game feels like propaganda more than a story.”
    • “Soft lock also, the game's plot in the first chapters implies that France will win World War II when Poland was attacked by Nazis - it's inaccurate since France and the UK did respond to Poland's call for help against Nazis.”
    • “Most of the NPCs with whom you can interact are story-critical; you can walk up to other NPCs, but most of them are speechless.”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed reviews, with some praising them as beautiful and well-suited to the story, while others criticize the cel-shaded, cartoonish art style as ill-fitting and unappealing for the serious tone.

    • “The graphics of this game are absolutely beautiful.”
    • “But this game has both: it has a good story and great graphics.”
    • “Great graphics.”
    • “The graphics are 'the light in the darkness'’s least appealing feature: the characters are all cel-shaded, Pixar-esque cartoons with bulging eyes, which is bafflingly ill-fitting for the serious subject matter.”
    • “Horrible art style, slow gameplay, muting music doesn't work on cutscenes.”

  • gameplay

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The gameplay is noted to be slow and somewhat frustrating, with some criticism of the character designs. While it serves as an educational experience, certain technical issues like muting music during cutscenes detract from the overall experience.

    • “Mechanically, I found it a bit frustrating, and the character designs a little uncanny, but it's a good way to educate oneself and humanize the story of the Shoah.”
    • “Horrible art style, slow gameplay, muting music doesn't work on cutscenes.”
    • “Mechanically I found it a bit frustrating, and the character designs a little uncanny, but yeah it's just a good way to educate oneself and humanize the story of the Shoah.”
    • “It's just gameplay.”

  • emotional

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game delivers a deeply emotional experience that resonates with players, evoking strong feelings such as sadness and reflection. Its poignant storytelling provides an impactful, heartfelt perspective on historical events, making it both educational and moving.

    • “Straightforward analyses of extermination campaigns certainly have their place, but tales like these are also needed to give the most serious students of history some emotional approximation of the events that took place.”
    • “The ending got me a bit emotional, but it is very educational, and I recommend this game to everyone and anyone.”
    • “This game made me cry.. so many things lost.”

  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The music features French classical pieces that occasionally enhance the tension and tragedy of scenes, though it is generally seen as unremarkable. However, some users praise the soundtrack as outstanding, despite issues like inability to mute music during cutscenes.

    • “The soundtrack consists of some French classical music, and there are a couple of moments when it adds to the tension or tragedy of the scenes.”
    • “Outstanding music.”
    • “The soundtrack consists of some French classical music, and there are a couple of moments when it adds to the tension or tragedy of the scenes, but ultimately it is nothing to write home about.”
    • “Horrible art style, slow gameplay, muting music doesn't work on cutscenes.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from poor optimization and unresponsive controls, which significantly detract from its narrative experience. This is especially problematic given the game's focus on a serious and important historical topic.

    • “The game is so poorly optimized and the controls feel so bad that it detracts from the story, which is bad not just because this is a narrative-centric game, but because the story is about one of the most serious topics in history that should not be mismanaged.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Grinding is noted to be quite demanding and may require extensive time investment, to the point where players might feel they need a "second life" to keep up.

  • character development

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Character development is noted as somewhat mechanically frustrating with uncanny designs, but it effectively educates and humanizes the story of the Shoah.

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The Light in the Darkness is a action game with drama and historical themes. Common tags for The Light in the Darkness include free to play, 3D, indie, world war ii, educational and others.

The Light in the Darkness is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and others.

The Light in the Darkness was released on January 26, 2024.

The Light in the Darkness was developed by Voices of the Forgotten.

The Light in the Darkness has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked The Light in the Darkness for its graphics but disliked it for its story.

The Light in the Darkness is a single player game.

Similar games include FORGOTTEN: THE GAME, The Uncertain: Light At The End, My Memory of Us, Relive, Martial Law and others.