The Light Brigade
Funktronic Labs · 2023 · VR, Action, Shooter, Physics, Singleplayer
PC
Very Positive88% · 1,104
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About The Light Brigade
Enlist in the ranks of The Light Brigade, humanity’s last line of defense, and journey through procedurally-generated battlegrounds as many times as it takes to free the souls of the fallen trapped within.
Realistic gunplay inspired by historical World War weaponry creates tense battles against increasingly difficult enemy soldiers, creatures, and bosses. In VR, aiming, shooting, and reloading bolt-action rifles, machine guns and pistols feels highly immersive and tactile. Powerful light magic pairs beautifully with gunplay. From infusing your rifle's bullets with light magic to raining fireballs on enemy hordes, magic spells complement your rifle by adding more combat tools to your arsenal. Start your run with a standard-issue rifle and loot for powerful attachments like explosive charms, poison gun barrels, tactical scopes, silencers, and more. If you fall to enemy fire, survive long enough to retrieve your fallen soul or lose your run progress to permadeath. Cleanse the souls of the fallen to climb the ranks of The Light Brigade and spend rank points to upgrade your weapon, passive abilities, and spells. Unlock new player classes and gain access to new weapons, loadouts and play styles, adding even more variety to your runs. Loot treasure chests and enemies during your run to collect an array of magical tarot cards, each with unique powers, buff/debuffs and passive abilities. Acquire stronger versions of these cards to create devastating stacking effects. Infinitely procedurally-generated battlegrounds make each run completely unique, forcing you to traverse carefully through ever-changing hostile environments. Enemy soldiers lurk around every corner, so position and strategy is crucial for survival. What led to the world's downfall? What do the Obsidian Forces want? Uncover these mysteries and bring the world back from the brink of total darkness before it's too late.We've been hard at work on future updates and are currently in production on a wide variety of post-launch content. Given the modular design of our roguelike system, it is fun & seamless to continuously add more to the game. So expect new content in the form of new biomes/worlds, enemies, guns/weapons, unlockable player classes, attachments, online features, items, as well as general improvements to the user experience. If you'd like to stay updated on our development, you can follow along by joining our Discord.
Realistic gunplay inspired by historical World War weaponry creates tense battles against increasingly difficult enemy soldiers, creatures, and bosses. In VR, aiming, shooting, and reloading bolt-action rifles, machine guns and pistols feels highly immersive and tactile. Powerful light magic pairs beautifully with gunplay. From infusing your rifle's bullets with light magic to raining fireballs on enemy hordes, magic spells complement your rifle by adding more combat tools to your arsenal. Start your run with a standard-issue rifle and loot for powerful attachments like explosive charms, poison gun barrels, tactical scopes, silencers, and more. If you fall to enemy fire, survive long enough to retrieve your fallen soul or lose your run progress to permadeath. Cleanse the souls of the fallen to climb the ranks of The Light Brigade and spend rank points to upgrade your weapon, passive abilities, and spells. Unlock new player classes and gain access to new weapons, loadouts and play styles, adding even more variety to your runs. Loot treasure chests and enemies during your run to collect an array of magical tarot cards, each with unique powers, buff/debuffs and passive abilities. Acquire stronger versions of these cards to create devastating stacking effects. Infinitely procedurally-generated battlegrounds make each run completely unique, forcing you to traverse carefully through ever-changing hostile environments. Enemy soldiers lurk around every corner, so position and strategy is crucial for survival. What led to the world's downfall? What do the Obsidian Forces want? Uncover these mysteries and bring the world back from the brink of total darkness before it's too late.We've been hard at work on future updates and are currently in production on a wide variety of post-launch content. Given the modular design of our roguelike system, it is fun & seamless to continuously add more to the game. So expect new content in the form of new biomes/worlds, enemies, guns/weapons, unlockable player classes, attachments, online features, items, as well as general improvements to the user experience. If you'd like to stay updated on our development, you can follow along by joining our Discord.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Overall, the game is pretty enjoyable, it does have a lot of weirdly and badly design things which I'll get into in a bit, I got this game on sale after eyeing it out for a while, and I thought it was going to be a lot different than it is, it's a stage based game, the maps are really small, you can walk from edge to edge in like 10-15 seconds, and the enemies notice you and attack you the instant you enter their line of sight, which wouldn't be much of an issue if you could move, but this game does something I haven't seen any other VR shooter do, and it's hinder your movement speed based on how you hold your weapon. MOVEMENT: If you aren't holding any weapons, you move at a medium to fast walking pace, if you grab a weapon in your hand, your movement speed slows down, if you grab a weapon with both hands, it decreases even more, and if you get close to what you would consider aiming down sights, you're pretty much walking at crawling speed, which means you cannot dodge, move to cover or peek through corners because you're going so extremely slow, the enemies can't miss you. If you want to peek a corner you have to lower your weapon, or even release one hand from it, peek, and t…2 found this helpful
It's a basic roguelike, you go in, kill people (I love killing people), then die after killing people (I love killing people), unless you manage to kill all people (I love killing people) including the bosses that can be troublesome but very fun to kill (I find killing people fun) and very rewarding to finish while on the verge of death. Many classes to choose (many ways to kill people) with many differences in regards to their playstyle (different ways of killing people) and it's engaging to try charms and crystals (I love meth) to change their usability (to kill more people). Guns feel impactful (when killing people), hard to pick up at the start (training for killing people), sound design is phenomenal (gets me into killing people) but could use a little more content (you can still kill people which is very important). I got it in a discount so it was incredibly worth it (killing people made cheap). Overall, 8/101 found this helpful
Tuff ♥♥♥♥ The devs don't update it anymore tho and started making some slop instead tho1 found this helpful
takes a second to get used to but a lot of fun when you realize what the heck is going on around here
It's a difficult recommend and I admit I should play more to be sure, and maybe I'll play more, I can't tell, but from what little I've seen, some core aspects of this game fell unfinished and in a way you can tell the game is just abandoned and won't be refined or patched at all. It's a really neat concept of a game and the gunplay feels really tight and satisfying, but it just feels like early access. If you like arcade shooters and rogue-like gameplay loops, I say get it on sale. I had it on my wishlist for a year before it finally went on sale, and I'm glad I didn't pay full price, because I was tempted based on some youtube reviews. I don't know why, but I didn't expect it to be so arcade-y. I thought it would be more open, longer levels where exploration is a focus. That's kind of the narrative theme of the game, from what I can understand. The narrative isn't concrete, but it seems you go into this alternate dimension to try and farm souls from fallen soldiers, like you're in purgatory or something. So, while I didn't expect an open-world, I did expect more open environments. What it actually is is an arcade arena shooter. The levels are quite small and have a fini…
A fantastic and challenging rogue-lite.
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