夕生 Halflight

Released Apr 2020

Halflight is a 3D adventure game with classic puzzles. Players follow in the steps of the young boy Xi-sheng as he strays into an extraordinary phantom world -- a world where Memories intertwine with Nightmares, Hope casts its lot with Destiny, and any semblance of self-identity will be tested.

64% positive · 129 reviews

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All announced content has been released

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Done

All announced content has been released

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Steam Updated 12 Oct 2026 $14.99

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Evaluation

夕生 Halflight launched on Steam on April 1, 2020. In the weeks immediately following launch, the developer (MATCHB) issued two bug-fix patches — one on April 2, 2020 and another on April 19, 2020 — addressing collision issues, save-file bugs, resolution problems, and other launch issues. After April 20, 2020, there have been no further developer communications of any kind: no patches, no announcements, no roadmap, and no DLC listings. The store description and short description present the game as a self-contained mystery adventure with a complete narrative. No post-launch content was ever announced or implied, and there is no DLC listed on the store. The game launched as a finished, standalone product, and the brief post-launch activity was limited to standard bug fixing. With no content updates, no unreleased DLC, and no developer statements suggesting future additions, the game is complete as shipped on April 1, 2020.

Evidence

Game officially launched on Steam on April 1, 2020, marking the 1.0 release.

news post · Apr 1, 2020 source content shipped

high

Second bug-fix patch adding windowed/fullscreen options and resolving collision and item display issues. This is the last recorded developer communication.

news post · Apr 20, 2020 source development ongoing

low

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Details

Developer

MATCHB

Publisher

FirePoint

Achievements

—

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Adventure Indie Casual Puzzle Horror

About this game

「Welcome to Fanshu village. What kind of sacrifice will you make for your family?」

In the merged world between reality and imaginations, you will follow a little boy as our protagonist – Xi-Sheng keeps asking people lived in the village about the news of his young brother – Mu-Sheng. However, at the dusk when the views transiting from bright to dark, he doesn’t notice that there is something dangerous approaching…

Features

HalfLight is a third-person mystery adventure game developed by UE4 setting in a fictional world of 1940s Taiwan.

The design of all the puzzles is based on logic and common sense for every player to understand the situation quickly and to have an immersive experience when solving puzzles. Even though the puzzles will become more challenging as the story develops, once you observe the environment in detail, you will always find the clues to break through these obstacles.

Something unspeakable, it always appears unexpectedly and charges at you. What is it looking for? Who is it? Try to interact with the environment and use items around you wisely. That is the key to escape from the chase of the ones hiding in shadows.

Explore and seek for the truth behind this mysterious world. Lots of photos and notes are scattered in every corner of HalfLight. Through gathering these photos and notes, you will figure out the whole story behind this mysterious world.

In order to bring the native and nostalgic view of 1940s Taiwan to players, the voiceover Taiwanese. Furthermore, there are nearly a thousand Taiwanese lines mixed with Japanese, to present the life and the culture in that certain period when Taiwan was occupied by Japan.

About MATCHB

We are MATCHB, four university students from Taiwan with the full passion of playing and making video games. The idea of HalfLight came from our student graduation project, which even won the 1st prize in official Unreal Engine 4 Game Design Competition. After that, we decided to finish HalfLight in order to bring a slice of Taiwanese culture to every player around the world.