Retrace the Light
“Retraces the Light” is a top-down AAG. Walk through the vast abandoned ruins. Defeat the enemies coveting the HashRate of your world. Comply to the order of supreme Yuan. Fight for honors and uncover the past…
Retrace the Light is an adventure, released 21 November 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Retrace the Light is
Retrace the Light was released in 2025. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 5.
The premise, in the publisher's words
For two hundred years, the AI YUAN has been working scrupulously to fulfill duties that she was designed to cover, from submitting to human’s will to providing necessary resources and HashRate. Under the rules made by her, there is no hunger, crimes or wars within the YUAN world. Neither is there any free wills. The ever-updating and -iterating Yuan has been more perfect than the very original one. Now she is behaving like a god, laying her eyes on humans without being perceived any of her real thoughts. Someone doubts that the Yuan has long since transformed from our servant to supreme God of all things. Finally, the suspicion comes to be confirmed. Then the core of computing has to be…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Retrace the Light launched on 21 November 2025, within three weeks of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Routine, Kirby Air Riders and Marvel Cosmic Invasion. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Routine, Kirby Air Riders, Marvel Cosmic Invasion.
Official trailer
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