LIT: Bend the Light

LIT: Bend the Light

Released May 2020

Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

92% positive · 323 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

LIT: Bend the Light launched on May 15, 2020 as a complete puzzle game. In the weeks following launch, developer Copperglass issued a series of bug fix and polish updates — adding full controller support, Japanese localization, achievement fixes, and level tweaks — all between May 15 and June 7, 2020. These post-launch patches are typical launch-window housekeeping rather than indicators of an ongoing content development cycle. There have been no major content updates, no announced expansions or DLC, and no developer communications of any kind since June 7, 2020. The store description and DLC listing contain no references to upcoming content, season passes, or planned additions. The game launched as a self-contained, finished puzzle experience and has remained so.
Evidence
Added Japanese localization and fixed achievement issues — the last developer communication on record.
news post · Jun 7, 2020 source development ending
medium
Added full controller support and fixed a rotation bug shortly after launch — typical launch-window polish.
news post · May 21, 2020 source development ongoing
low

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Copperglass
Achievements
23
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Set in an era when electricity wasn’t a thing and nothing but imaginations of great inventors that set the world in motion, LIT test your own inner engineer and lets you discover the joy of experimenting with light at first hand.




The behaviour of light in LIT is physically accurate. That said, the amazing light paths you are going to build in LIT are possible but extremely hard to reproduce in real life. Our game gives you the opportunity to set up mirrors and glass pieces to reflect and refract a light beam as you wish, with just few clicks of the mouse.


Our puzzles are open-ended. We give you the rules and the tools, you show us how to solve the problem. We assigned a number of possible solutions to each level but don’t let those numbers fool you - we’re only waiting for the players to find solutions we haven't thought of.


Visuals threading on the thin line between cartoony and realistic. Good pacing. Relaxing music, which lets you zone in. All of that creates a unique, mysterious but warm atmosphere.




When light hits a mirror and it reflects, it hits glass and it bends. That’s all. And yet, it offers thousands of possibilities, which means each of our levels is different and unique.


LIT is extremely intuitive. Testing the game on multiple gaming events proved that it works for all age groups and all types of players. You want to find every solution and beyond? Searching for a game for your 5-year-old? Or maybe you’re trying to introduce your mum to gaming? Controller player or mouse and keyboard type, LIT’s got you covered.
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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