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HalfLight

Halflight is a 3D adventure game set in a fictional world of 1940s Taiwan with classic puzzles. Players follow in the steps of the young boy Xi-sheng as he strays into an extraordinary phantom world -- a world…

1 April 2020

HalfLight is an adventure developed by MATCHB, released 1 April 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What HalfLight is

HalfLight is an adventure game developed by MATCHB and released in 2020. It was published by Indievent. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

「Welcome to Fanshu village. What kind of sacrifice will you make for your family?」 In the merged world between reality and imaginations, you will follow a little boy as our protagonist – Xi-Sheng keeps asking people lived in the village about the news of his young brother – Mu-Sheng. However, at the dusk when the views transiting from bright to dark, he doesn’t notice that there is something dangerous approaching…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

HalfLight launched on 1 April 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Persona 5 Royal.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Doom Eternal, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Persona 5 Royal.

Official trailer

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When did HalfLight come out?
HalfLight was released on 1 April 2020 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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