Seeking Light

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"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…

Most student games have one thing in common: strong visuals. Not just in-game, but even the Steam store page and capsule art are done really well, which attracts a lot of players. So as for Seeking Light, the game concept and visual are good, cool story for a student short game project, especially the cover art are really cute. However, things fall apart the moment you actually start playing the map design is poor and the controls feel clunky. Worst of all, the bugs make the game practically unplayable. There are bugs everywhere getting stuck when opening the menu, the mouse disappearing when picking up rocks, the screen freezing when collecting notes. Unless you are really resilient and want to experience a short story game, I cannot recommend this game since it's more bugs than game, the bugs will only frustrate you instead of letting you enjoy what should have been a short experience.

great graphics good control terrible music not good story

This game would be amazing as an MMORPG.

super cute game i hope it gets updates