Primal Light

Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters. Explore the nooks and crannies of a bizarre and evocative world as you hack and slash your way to victory, leaving a graveyard of grotesque bosses in your wake.

Primal Light is a 2d platformer, pixel graphics and action-adventure game developed and published by Fat Gem.
Released on July 08th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, French, German, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Italian, Russian and Turkish.

It has received 386 reviews of which 317 were positive and 69 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam and has a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Primal Light into these genres:

2D Platformer Pixel Graphics Action-Adventure Side Scroller Precision Platformer Retro Difficult Indie Singleplayer Old School Action Beautiful Great Soundtrack Linear Colorful Adventure Fantasy Platformer 2D Exploration

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7, 8, or 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600, or equivalent
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 200 MB available space

MacOS

OS: MacOS 10.12, or newer
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M, or equivalent
Storage: 200 MB available space

Linux

OS: N/A
Processor: Intel Core i7-4700MQ CPU 2.40 GHz, or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600, or equivalent
Storage: 200 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

"Primal Light" is a great old-school action-platformer by only two devs and a sincere bow to the classics. The pixel-art is gorgeous, the sound is very atmospheric, the worldbuilding is bizarrely-stylish and raw, gameplay is smooth and the level-design is solid. Bosses felt also good. Some enemy- and trap-placement can get a little gnarly, but that is to be expected if you really want to emulate the genre feel. Overall it really is not that difficult, even on "Hardcore" if you played these games before. But hey, you can NG+ the game multiple times if thats your thing. The only caveat was that I could not equip the charms until I mashed keys on them, which was bizarrely off (but a thing, if you look up the community hub???). Also the ladder climbing-animation is a little derpy, but thats a minor gripe. A solid recommendation for every genre fan!

July 2024

Feels like a really good SNES platformer lost to time. Very short though (2.5 hours). Sound & visuals were great. The game has multiple New Game+ that apparently increases things like the amount of enemies, but I have not tried this yet.

Feb. 2024

Masochistic-glued to the screen-button mashing with precise timing-intrigued to get to the next level- seven year old me on a gameboy loves and fully endorses this game. Come for the incredible art work and solid platforming + powerups Stay for the addictive speed run replays

Jan. 2024

Pretty good overall, but extremely infuriating boss fights. Not all but some are absolutely bs.

Dec. 2023

To be honest, this is one of those games that makes me wish for a 'maybe' button. The art style is the strongest aspect of the game, but the gameplay is not quite up to the same level. Don't get me wrong, its a competent, solid platformer, but never really goes beyond that. There is nothing wrong with the controls or level design, but nothing makes them stand out either. No unique mechanics or features, just a very 'standard' action platformer experience. And if that is what you are looking for then you will be more than happy with this. Just don't go in expecting some kind of fresh twist on the classic formula. It's a 16-bit platformer through and through, for better or worse. Personally, I also feel that the music is a bit of a miss, its unique and suits the graphics, but is sorely lacking in the kind of energy and excitement that keeps you pushing to the end of the level

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Steam price	23 December 2024 12:42
Steam reviews	22 December 2024 13:52

-80% 12.49€ 2.49€

7.7

317

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Developer

Fat Gem

Publisher

Fat Gem

Release 08 Jul 2020

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