Lightmatter (2020) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Lightmatter

Lightmatter is an atmospheric first-person puzzle game where shadows kill you! "The floor is lava" but with shadows that kill you! Use lateral thinking to solve mind-bending puzzles with lights and shadows…

0 15 January 2020

What Lightmatter is

Lightmatter is an adventure game developed by Tunnel Vision Games and released in 2020. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lightmatter is an atmospheric first-person puzzle game where shadows kill you! "The floor is lava" but with shadows that kill you! Use lateral thinking to solve mind-bending puzzles with lights and shadows Compelling sci-fi narrative delivered by famous voice actor David Bateson Unique comicbook style with gloomy sci-fi atmosphere "If LIMBO and Portal had a weird baby ..." Inspired by games such as The Talos Principle, Portal, The Turing Test and Antichamber.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Lightmatter holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 73 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Lightmatter launched on 15 January 2020, within three weeks of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet and Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, Journey to the Savage Planet, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore.

Official trailer