The Light Brigade on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

An award-winning roguelike VR shooter with realistic gunplay & immersive light magic. Ascend the ranks of The Light Brigade to unlock new weapons, upgrades, classes, and abilities as you fight to restore light to the darkness.

The Light Brigade is a vr, action and shooter game developed by Funktronic Labs and published by Funktronic Labs and Creature Label.
Released on February 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 1,074 reviews of which 963 were positive and 111 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Light Brigade into these genres:

VR Action Shooter Physics Singleplayer First-Person FPS Indie Rogue-lite Atmospheric Rogue-like Tactical Violent Realistic RPG Procedural Generation Combat Adventure Souls-like Magic

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or newer
Processor: Intel Core i5 Sandy Bridge or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater
Storage: 500 MB available space
VR Support: Oculus PC or OpenXR

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March 2025

This is one of the *great* VR games. It has the depth and breadth of a flat-screen stealth shooter but custom built for VR. Whilst it might be less of a masterpiece, I think of it along with Lone Echo and Asgard's Wrath as a standout, huge longevity fully developed game, rather than a tech demo or short experience. HIGHLIGHTS The WWII era gun-play feels extremely satisfying in VR, aiming, reloading, dropping the ammo during combat, reloading in a panic, shooting, controlling barrel climb, poking around a corner to snap off a few shots, all of it. Similarly, whilst they are simple, working around the enemy fire patterns is a joy. Against a single rifleman, one just wait for a two-shot sequence and then you have a short window. Against a SMG wielder, similar, but with an extended burst. In this game you really *learn* the weapons, yours and the enemy. The environment is consistently dark, sinister, malevolent. Whilst the limited view range frustrates some it contributes to an oppressive claustrophobia that traps you in the same slow cooker as your foes. I find it encourages me to adopt the cautious, creep and peek, prepare and ambush approach that works so well. When you do or receive something *good*, like a boon or blessing, the visual and audio effects really contrast, providing a uplifting beat. Class variety is also good, mostly. Whilst only varying in their loadout, the weapons all feel different enough that learning to play a new class is a challenge. Things that work for A do not work for B. This is paired with a lot of meta-progression. This progression is *slow*, but that aligns well with the general longevity of the game. Game is still being developed, with fixes and new content arriving periodically. LOWLIGHTS? There are or were reports of enemies being able to shoot you through obstacles. This does not happen as of the current patch (March 2025). There are some rare magic using enemies that can fire a sort of homing magic missile and these *can* curve around obstacles to hit you if you are exposed. They do not directly pass through however. The pace is slow - most of the time. When you hold a weapon with one hand, you are considerably slower. When you hold a weapon in two hands you move at a crawl. It is perhaps unfair to call this a lowlight, it is more a caveat. Run & Gun is almost never viable here, unless you make it teleport and gun, in which case it is very risky but doable. Your hardware may influence your play experience. All of mine is on a Quest 2 using a PrismPulse wireless connection to a desktop PC. On this setup the play is flawless and gripping and manipulating the guns and equipment like grenades and gun attachments feels natural.

Jan. 2025

i know this dev.. all their 5 games have nice decent very positive reviews.. if u love shooting games, love dark souls maybe this is for u and me the music & sound effect is spot on! the map and visuals is interesting too.. but may be repetitive at times.. but the FUN is still there.. the gunplay works great, enemies AI is ok but maybe too sensitive? anyway looks like im going to have a lot of fun from here on out.. and even better! its on SALE! so what are u waiting for? go shoot some! u wont regret it!

Jan. 2025

This game is a gem and a must play for anyone who has an itch for an relatively easy and action packed VR experience. I really love the way developers have interwoven the story and spirituality into the roguelite mechanics.

July 2024

When I first got this game, I quickly became frustrated with how many times I was dying so early on. Just to realize that this game isnt about running through levels gun blazing, but more about calculating each encounter with an enemy, finding the right cover, and using the right equipment. Once I got that down the game started becoming much more fun. I had so much fun unlocking each of the classes and trying out each beautifully detailed gun. The game has a rogue like mechanic that I absolutely love. start run, progress, die, repeat. Cant beat that loop. each run is gonna feel pretty similar to the last but going in with new classes and finding random gear out on the field always helps mix things up. If you like well built guns and decent challenges, I would not turn this game down.

April 2024

I honestly enjoy this game. I think it's a pretty good VR rogue-like. Weapons generally feel pretty good. The boss fights can be fun with actual mechanics other than "shoot it till it dies." But it's not perfect, there are a few flaws. Levels can get a bit repetitive; you're always going to be going through the same zones in the same order against the same bosses. Your primary progression system(cards that give you minor or sometimes major bonuses) could use some work. I'd argue some of the cards are all around better than others with damage increasing cards almost always being the correct choice. Then there is the one thing about this game that always leaves me with a sour taste. Every damage increasing upgrade you get comes as a flat bonus. +2 Physical Damage, +4 Magical Damage, etc... This unfortunately results in the rapid fire weapons being objectively better than your slower rate of fire weapons. With the assault rifle I can regularly beat the final boss on the highest difficulty in a matter of seconds . With the sniper and bow I find myself struggling to beat the final boss before running out of ammo even on lower difficulties. Overall I've enjoyed my time with the game but it lacks a lot of real build choice that a rogue-like should. Probably get it on sale.

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24.50€

8.5

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Developer

Funktronic Labs

Publisher

Funktronic Labs, Creature Label

Release 22 Feb 2023

VR VR Only

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