Deadlight
Released Oct 2012
“Probably the best downloadable title on the market right now.” 9/10 – Eurogamer.se
78% positive · 13K reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
Deadlight is a completed single-player cinematic platformer that launched on October 25, 2012. The store description presents the game as a fully realized product with no mention of upcoming content, expansions, or post-launch updates. The only DLC ever listed is the original soundtrack, which has been released. There is no history of post-launch content updates, no developer news posts of any substance, no roadmaps, and no announcements of future content. The game was developed by Tequila Works and published by Xbox Game Studios, and all evidence points to it having shipped as a finished, standalone product with no ongoing development cycle. A Definitive Edition was later released as a separate product (Deadlight: Director's Cut), further reinforcing that the original release reached its final state shortly after launch.
Evidence
Store description presents a complete single-player narrative experience with no mention of upcoming content, live service features, or post-launch additions.
Only one DLC item exists — the original soundtrack — and it has been released. No unreleased DLC is listed.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Xbox Game Studios
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
The world has ended. There is no hope. No new beginning. Only the survivors. DEADLIGHT follows the journey of Randall Wayne, a man searching for his family across Seattle during the aftermath of a 1980s event that has decimated life on earth. This visually stunning Cinematic Survival Platformer will challenge you to run, jump, climb, and struggle for your life as you look for answers and the ones you love.
Key Features:
- A beautiful deadly world where a misstep means death. Sharpen your surviving instinct and learn to turn the environment from foe to ally. In this hopeless world, an ordinary man, Randall Wayne, will reveal himself as a natural born survivor.
- Think. Mindless shooting is never a good idea: there are much more walking corpses than bullets. Be smart and avoid direct confrontations whenever you can.
- A suggestive world of darkness. 3D highly detailed models and environments mixed with 2D sidescroller old school gameplay to create a vintage 2.5D Cinematic Platformer. Unable to escape from the horror of this dying world, Randall Wayne's journey will lead him to Seattle, in a strange search beyond his own survival.
- HD graphics that enhance the immersion and atmosphere of a dead world
- New NIGHTMARE difficulty mode from the 80s. Totally rad!
- Tons of extras, making of videos, unreleased concept art and more!
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 28, 2026
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