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Strayed Lights

Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system. Shift between colours to repel attacks and strike back. Explore a dreamlike world as you restore your light that was torn by shadows.

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Developer
Embers
Publisher
Embers
Release
April 25, 2023
3 years and 99 days ago
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Very Positive486 reviews80.5%

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About the Game



Strayed Lights is an immersive action adventure set in a wordless, dreamlike world of corruption and shadows. You are a nascent light on a journey to free yourself from the grasp of shadows surrounding you.



Key Features of Strayed Lights:
  • Battle endearing creatures deformed by their emotions, shift your colors to repel their attacks.
  • Experience a tightly-crafted cinematic experience through art and emotion, with not a word of dialogue.
  • Explore the fractured lands of Strayed Lights, from luminescent forests to canyons, caves and lands of bewildering mist.
  • Scored to a haunting, atmospheric original soundtrack by Austin Wintory.

RESTORE YOUR LIGHT

Play as a newborn flame torn by shadows. Progress in a hostile world on a quest to restore your light by facing your inner demons and helping beings along the way. Unlock new abilities as your light brightens.

PACIFY YOUR ENEMIES

Find your siblings who went rogue, each deformed by a specific emotion. Battle these monstrous forms and pacify the emotions that control them. Face your inner demons taken form to hinder your progress.

SHIFT COLORS TO FIGHT

Face creatures torn by shadow in fluid and rewarding combat. Repel their attacks while shifting between blue and orange to match their color and overcome them in vivid finishers.

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