Fall of Light: Darkest Edition

Fall of Light: Darkest Edition is an atmospheric action role-playing game developed by RuneHeads and published by Fulqrum Publishing that sets out to merge somber storytelling, deliberate combat, and a haunting sense of companionship into a single dark fantasy journey. Drawing clear inspiration from Souls-like combat philosophies and emotionally driven adventure games, it places players in a world where light itself is fading, shaping both the mechanics and the narrative tone. From its opening moments, the game establishes a bleak and melancholic mood, emphasizing endurance, sacrifice, and the fragile bond between parent and child in the face of an encroaching apocalypse. The story follows Nyx, an aging warrior tasked with escorting his daughter Aether through a land consumed by darkness. Aether is no ordinary child; she carries a rare inner light that allows her to illuminate pitch-black environments, reveal hidden paths, and weaken the creatures of shadow that roam the world. This narrative setup gives the journey emotional weight, framing every battle and obstacle as part of a desperate attempt to protect hope itself. Rather than relying on extensive dialogue or exposition, the…

Another below average game that should be avoided by everyone. Devs should focus less on blowing smoke up themselves and have some gamers play these things to see more than anything else "is my game fun or just irritating to play?" and maybe a lot of these subpar games would be turned into something worth your money and, more importantly, your TIME.

Stay well clear of this terrible excuse for a game. I bought it cheap, but it is still not worth it. The gameplay was boring & janky the whole way through, & if you play it for long enough you will get to a point where the game will crash in the water temple dungeon, & you will be locked in with no way to ever escape because the developers haven't patched it out when they were working on it. It looks like the developers have known about the crash since 2018 & has still not been fixed. It has since long been abandoned.

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Fading light remains Father guides through endless night Hope walks hand in hand

II have, as of the time of this writing, tried my best (for 5.8 hours) to like this game. But there's so much that just drives me insane about it. For instance, the entirety of it is an escort quest for a character that is necessary to be able to use save points, and can get kidnapped, including when the game forces you to split up. Disabling your ability to save and level. (I should note, for fans of customizing your character, leveling is strictly for gaining health- though that is, in fact, helpful). Also, for fans of tweaking your character, while different weapons exist- you can't actually carry weapons you aren't using in one of your two loadouts, so I hope you like leaving items behind in miscellaneous areas if you want to try out something different - especially since the game doesn't tell you any details about their damage, how much of an upgrade something is versus their predecessor- or anything useful about them, other than, what their (very infrequent) status effects are, and if they are a basic variant or +, ++, etc. Oh, and while this says its a soulslike- you can't retrieve all the experience you lose when you die. And the game will get you with cheap gotcha death…