A Light in the Dark

──We cannot choose in this unfair world.The rich boy stuck in his never changing daily life...The fierce girl struggling for survival...Two people in totally opposite positions in life.In the face of confusion and the choices before them, what will they find...?

A Light in the Dark is a indie, visual novel and casual game developed by CreSpirit, STORIA and Narrator and published by Sekai Project.
Released on June 15th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 5 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

It has received 1,700 reviews of which 1,585 were positive and 115 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 10.35€ on Steam and has a 30% discount.

The Steam community has classified A Light in the Dark into these genres:

Indie Visual Novel Casual Violent Anime Gore Multiple Endings Story Rich Great Soundtrack Point & Click Choices Matter Kickstarter Crowdfunded

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: 32/64-bit Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10
Processor: 1.8 GHz Pentium 4
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280 x 720
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: MacOS
Processor: 1.2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280 x 720
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

Beautifully sad 10/10

July 2024

There is sadly no way to make them kiss. But otherwise the story was quite interesting and made me feel emotions in my cold dead heart. Even if that was mostly pity. Most of the spelling errors and bugs exist in the secret ending, it's philosophical underpinnings in this story is also a lot weaker than the other endings since it seems to run counter to the conversation that the MC has with Big Sis.

July 2024

This game made me develop Stockholm Syndrome.

May 2024

pretty cool experience, i'm not sure if the game is worth the price tag, but it enjoyed this game

April 2024

If you have never experienced a Visual Novel you should give this gem a try. A Light in the Dark was my first VN and even though it is not a very long story it is until today my favourite VN with it's emotional depth. The story feels real and the topic of A Light in the Dark is very unique. The soundtrack is awesome and the art fits very well. Maybe it is a bit hard and subtile to reach every ending and you might need a guide to reach all of them but for the main story every detail about the circumstances is being revealed and the story feels complete.

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-30% 14.79€ 10.35€

8.9

1,585

115

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Developer

CreSpirit, STORIA, Narrator

Publisher

Sekai Project

Release 15 Jun 2018

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