007 First Light
007 First Light is a thrilling espionage action-adventure game from IO Interactive. Players follow James Bond as a young, resourceful, and sometimes reckless recruit in MI6's training program and discover an…
007 First Light is an adventure developed by IO Interactive, released 27 May 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 16.9 hrs to finish.
What 007 First Light is
007 First Light is an adventure game developed by IO Interactive and released in 2026. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Glacier 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
During a retrieval operation in Iceland, trainee aircrewman James Bond becomes the sole survivor after both helicopters are shot down. His defiant rescue of captive scientists catches the attention of MI6, and he is recruited into the revitalized 00 program. After months of training, Bond's team is ambushed by a rogue agent's assassins in Slovakia, killing and wounding several recruits. Bond's investigation uncovers a conspiracy involving Sir Nicholas Webb, an AI pioneer whose quantum supercomputer THEIA has been making fatal errors that Webb is covering up through terrorism. When Webb leverages stolen MI6 data for immunity, Bond goes rogue, teaming with thief Isola Vale to infiltrate…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 37 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the James Bond series
007 First Light is the 44th of 44 entries we hold in the James Bond series. It arrived 3 years after Cypher 007. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 82 is 15 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is GoldenEye 007 at 88.
How it was received
007 First Light holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 197 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 16.9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 25 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for INTEL CORE i5 9500, AMD RYZEN 5 3500, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA GFORCE GTX 1660, AMD RX 5700, INTEL DISCRETE GPU EQUIVALENT. A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹3,499.00 (about $36.71), while United Kingdom pays £59.99 — 2.2 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 40 on Steam, which is about $39.99.
What it launched against
007 First Light launched on 27 May 2026, within three weeks of Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Directive 8020 and Mina the Hollower. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Forza Horizon 6, LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight, Directive 8020, Mina the Hollower.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for 007 First Light yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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