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Average Player Score
Based on 435 ratings
7.2
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Score Breakdown Based on 435 ratings
  1. 10 (33)
  2. 9 (67)
  3. 8 (137)
  4. 7 (111)
  5. 6 (43)
  6. 5 (24)
  7. 4 (9)
  8. 3 (3)
  9. 2 (3)
  10. 1 (5)

Most Helpful Positive Player Reviews

  • Rating:8.5

    Another game that helped redefine 2D gaming.

    What did we have so far? Braid,Limbo, Trine, Bionic Commando, and perhaps a few others I failed to mention. The game takes place in 1986 during the world zombie outbreak. This game has it all, zombies, an intensive... Read Full Review

    9 of 9 users found the following review helpful

What Gamespot Users have to say about Deadlight

  • Rating:5

    Mix of good and bad

    The game brings zombie horror as 2D platformer. I liked the graphic and storytelling (but the storytelling was kind of "simpleminded" - everything said 3-4 times, which became annoying really fast). some mechanics didnt ... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    Deadlight is a masterpiece

    Deadlight is, mechanically speaking, most similar to the classics Prince of Persia and Flashback, with some elements of the original Oddworld titles.This is a retro zombie horror-show game and I love it. In my opinion t... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:2

    Deadlight

    Deadlight, the XBLA game from tequila works, is free for the latter half of April with the games with gold reward scheme. For those of you who don't know Deadlight is a post apocalyptic side scroller that looks into the... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8

    Great

    Deadlight is set in 1986, a time when the absence of modern communication devices amplifies the sense of despair and isolation. Seattle area resident Randall Wayne is a mess. His wife and young daughter are missing, he&r... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:6.5

    An atmsopheric an enjoyable zombie sidescroller, but ultimately unfulfilling.

    Here We Go Again: Jogging Through Post-Apocalyptia with Deadlight Premise: Atmospheric and desolate side-scrolling platformer set in zombie-infested Seattle There's a phenomenon in music in which a genre becomes s... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:6

    Nice screenshots. Weak gameplay.

    **An over reliance on trial and error.** There are a lot of scripted sequences that you can't get past on your first try. And when you do get past that particular section of the game, there will be yet another cheap... Read Full Review

    0 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    Mini-Review

    Deadlight is a very atmospheric experience: its plot serves to tell a simple, yet powerful tale; its visuals are an effective mix of 3D graphics and a 2D sidescroller perspective; the game plays with its colour palette a... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:5

    It reminded me a little of 'The Walking Dead' TV Show, which is a very good thing.

    For my first real, proper game review – you know where you sit down and play, but take notes at the same time, with one of those pen things with the paper and the hand movements – I thought I would go for a game that I c... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:8.5

    this game really surprised me.

    Dead Light is not as I had expected. understood in a good way, had thought that this game would be a piece of crap, but damn must be honest to say that it is certainly not a piece of crap. it's actually pretty good. to l... Read Full Review

    1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
  • Rating:7

    I review many games, and on this one I say:"Its different, give it a try!"

    Firstly this is a different sought of game that allows the player to only see the scene from the side, like a Miniclip flash game except way better. The story is the same-old-same-old and really nothing new at all, in... Read Full Review

    0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
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