Photonic Distress

Photonic Distress

GRIP420 · August 3, 2018 · Action, Adventure, Indie, Casual, Relaxing

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Photonic Distress price by region

Photonic Distress costs £4.59 in the United Kingdom, €5.28 in Europe (EUR), $5.99 in Georgia (USD), $6.15 in the United States, CA$11.49 in Canada, NZ$12.39 in New Zealand, A$14.50 in Australia, R$20.69 in Brazil and zł29.50 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Photonic Distress offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £4.59 −34% £6.99 £4.59 4
Europe (EUR) €5.28 −34% €7.99 €5.28 5
Georgia (USD) $5.99 $5.99 $6.15 6
United Statesyour region $6.15 −38% $9.99 $6.15 6
Canada CA$11.49 CA$11.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$12.39 NZ$12.39 — 1
Australia A$14.50 A$14.50 — 1
Brazil R$20.69 R$20.69 R$52.74 2
Poland zł29.50 −18% zł35.99 zł29.50 3

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About Photonic Distress

Photonic Distress (or PD for short) is a blend of First/Third Person puzzler/platformer with a unique twist.
You wake up in an internal representation of your conscience where your goal is to collect 100 memory fragments throughout increasingly complicated and increasing in size procedurally generated levels, or dreams. These levels are illuminated on easy and medium difficulties but dark on hard and impossible ones! You have a Photon gun that you can use to light your way up and fight enemies as you go through these levels. Initially this is only in form of colorful balls, or photons, that your shoot from your gun but ass you collect fragments, the upgrades will become available for you, such as a flashlight attachment, a scan grenade - that shows an outline of the world around you and highlights points of interest, as well as spawning/revealing unspawned/hidden enemies and killing the ones that are spawned. Once you collect 100 fragments the final room will open where you can go to end the game.

To provide maximum replayability, level generation is based of a Pseudo Random Number Generator. The seed you choose or randomly generate when starting a new game will dictate how your levels look, what they are made of, how many fragments you will find in each level and etc. This means that you can complete the game on various difficulties for the same seed, or various seeds for the same difficulty and every time it will look different.

PD features 4 difficulties: Easy, Medium, Hard and Impossible. Based on your chosen difficulty your gameplay may be quite relaxing as you quickly go through levels or very challenging - if you feel so inclined. On easy and medium difficulties the levels are illuminated! On hard and impossible you'll have to navigate your way in the dark, relying on your Photon Gun, Scan granade (Unlocked at 30 fragments) and of course your skill! The tiles that make up your level have a difficulty rating from 1 to 10. On easy, the difficulty rating increases slower, on impossible - every fast. As the difficulty keeps increasing you will find that the levels will be made up with tiles that are increasingly trickier. We have to admit higher level tiles give even the calmest of us an urge to smash something. Levels also gradually increase in size - more so with harder difficulties.
There is also an assortment of various barricades, traps and pickups that will also spawn for you.

Most of the music in-game was composed specifically for PD, by a very talented friend of ours, Toteki. However you are welcome to turn it off through settings and put some of your own chillout (or adrenaline pumped) music in the background. Overall we aim to provide a mystique filled ambiance with just the right challenge level for you to spend your time.

PD was made by a very small team. We are as indie as it gets. it's our first game and we sincerely hope it is worth your time and money.

Photonic Distress — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Dec 27, 2024
The levels are like a first person version of the first Super Mario game's levels; the platforming is a bit janky as the jumping does not always connect buts its stills fun to play a platformer from first person perspective. If you play the game with the levels illuminated it makes the gun kind of useless, aside from shooting the baddies there is not much reason for it or the scan grenades so I recommend leaving the levels dark. I liked the setting and wish it could have been explored more.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 17, 2021
So it's a 3D platformer, where you shoot the only lightsources - bouncy ones. If that sounds like fumbling around in pitch black darkness, you are right! It looks great, but it also has some programming issues. Stuttering while almost clipping, resolution failing to change to native, CHANGING MY KEYBOARD TO ANOTHER LANGUAGE even after closing the game... Not ripe yet, but promising? Follow my curator at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28337205-Fair-Minded-Witness/
3 found this helpful
Not recommended May 20, 2024
Doesn't seem to work with XBox 1 controller. Aside from that I know nothing!
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 12, 2022
Light - nice Music - nice Game - nah(
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 1, 2026
Honestly, PD is a pretty cool indie game. You run around randomly generated levels, light stuff up, slide around, fight enemies, collect Memory Fragments, and try to figure out what is even going on BUT in a good way. It is a bit weird, a bit rough, and definitely has that “indie project” feeling, but that is also what makes it charming. The idea is creative, the atmosphere is nice, and it feels different from the usual puzzle/platformer games. Definitely worth recommending.
Recommended Mar 17, 2021
Dope ♥♥♥♥!!

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