Seeking Light

"Seeking Light" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from ESAT in Valencia, Spain. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This abandoned student project is a mishmash of action, adventure, and puzzle elements, leaning heavily on a boss-rush gameplay style. You take on the role of a little girl, Sunny, as she fights physical manifestations of her fears, which presumably include never getting a job in the gaming industry because you couldn't be bothered finishing the game you made for your portfolio, but you published it on Steam anyway to make sure any prospective employers see how bad your work ethic is. And while it might seem unfair to take a jab at the students for dumping Early Access stuff on Steam then running, with absolutely no intent to finish their job, we have to remember, once more, we're the customers here. Abuse of Early Access like this is harmful. It makes it harder for gamers to find completed games from more ethical developers. It gives amateur developers a bad (worse) name. It makes it harder for those rare cases where amateur developers who did the right thing to find their audience, because they're the ones who have to compete with these student projects for visibility. So, the developers abandoned this 2 years and 4 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. The controls and gameplay are pretty weak... obviously designed for consoles but launched on Steam for no reason other than "it's easier and Steam Direct has no QA", there's been no consideration about what would give us PC gamers a decent gaming experience. And it doesn't deliver one. It's also riddled with bugs that will never be fixed, and lacks crucial, basic levels of polish. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. So much for the matter of pricing. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 7 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

Sadly, I wasn't able to get as far into this game as I had hoped, having to replay the game twice due to a bug where I got stuck outside of the level giving messy up my save point. Still suggest others give a game a try for a few minutes, because outside of the issue I came across, it has a fantastic top-down environment design and ghostly, dark lighting alongside an interesting premise of fighting your fears, literally, from clowns and spiders with a simple ability, such as throwing an object or 'taking a deep breath' to stun enemies. This game is still in Early Access, so hopefully, most of the bugs would get sorted as well as the developer adding more abilities and enemies varieties to keep the game interesting, in the meantime, I'll definitely be returning to be playing this game again after the Early Access, so expect this review to be updated.

It... could be better. My mouse cursor randomly will not appear and Sunny will be locked aiming in a single direction. Once that happens, I need to open and close the pause menu to make it reappear. There seem to be many spots without softlock protection.

Seeking Light, boss dövüşlerine odaklanan, izometrik perspektife sahip bir aksiyon macera oyunudur. Sunny olarak korkularınla savaş ve geçmişindeki şeytanların üstesinden gel. Fobilerinizin kişileştirilmesiyle yüzleşerek iç dünyanızı keşfedin ve onların arkasındaki hikayeyi keşfedin.

jolie a regarder mais pas à jouer, super buggé, dommage il y a du potentiel mais ça fait que de bug, quand on prends les cailloux 9 fois sur dix impossible de tourner la souris bref

Parece ser um jogo bem legal de puzzle, mais ainda tem muitos bugs precisam melhorar

A un moment ou je commencer a m'immergé dans le jeu je suis sur des plateforme qui me déplace rapidement pis je me retrouve au spawn sa m'as sortie de l’univers et du jeu je me suis rappeler c'est un jeu gratuits rempli de bug autant arrêter et c'est se qui c'est passé mourir pour rien ce n'est pas frustrant mais ennuyeux et juste inintéressant surtout dans se genre de jeu si je joue a zelda ou mario ratchet and clang et que d'un coup sur une phase de plateforme je me retrouve au spawn sans raison je vais trouvé sa nul... mais bon voila quelque idée simple ne pas mettre au spawn mais au dernier moment ou tu ne te tenais pas sur une plateforme ou mieux ne pas se la pété et faire des plateforme rapide si le jeu ne les supporte pas déjà c'est moche et idiot et sa dessert l'ambiance ont a l'impression d'un bug et c'est le cas une fois dessus bref... sinon la phase de boss étais un peu nerveuse mais pas intéressante juste une poussé de difficulté pis 0 Evolution le personnage n’évolue pas il a tous des le début pis je récupère 3 clefs pour un coffre qui ne s'ouvre pas... j'ai des phase plein de monstre avec 3 cœur c'est gênant se qui l'est davantage c'est que sans savoir pourquoi sur le chemin du retour il sont de nouveaux la... se n'est pas un bon jeu!!! c'est tout. la ligne narrative en anglais je l'ai pas suivi du coup ambiance visuel uniquement bha c'est nul ... désoler pour l’orthographe je suis dyslexique et nul a l’écrit bref ressentis ne vos pas l'attente du téléchargement et de l’installation une perte de temps que j'ai pris pour vous en temps que gens bon bref fuyez pauvre fou!!!

Una experiencia interesante con una ambientación y diseños que me han gustado bastante. El combate podría ser más fluido, y debería tener un poco más de feedback, pero los controles son buenos. Recomiendo probarlo. Además, es gratis :P