Planned Release Date: October 2024

About This Game

Fear of the Light is a stealth-based survival horror game where light is scarier than darkness and intelligent monsters keep you constantly on edge.

You’re the lone survivor on a spaceship infested by moths and other dangerous creatures. Explore the ship, override quarantine lockdowns, and find a way to escape. Use your radar and other tools to avoid enemies, keep out of the light, sneak around dangers, and find your way forward. But be careful, monsters are lurking around, searching for you, and are aware of your every mistake.

Key features

• 20-45 min of playtime
  
• Horror twist where light is more dangerous than darkness
  
• Intelligent monsters
  
• Handheld radar, heat visor, and EMP
  
• Diegetic UI tools and terminals

Background
The game was made in seven weeks with a core team of ten members (four designers, four programmers, and two artists) for the Game Project 3 course at Futuregames Stockholm and Karlstad, with some additional help from a Futuregames VFX artist. The game was made in Unreal Engine 5.3.2 and all the assets aside from the fire VFX and the player character were created from scratch by the team.

Controls
WASD – Movement
Ctrl (Hold) – Crouch
Shift (Hold) – Sprint
Spacebar – Jump
F – Interact / Pick up
Q – Equip Radar
E – Equip Heat Scanner
R – Equip EMP (aim at a lamp and R.Click to use)
P / Esc – Pause

Continued Development
Since the game was a student project, the course has finished, and the team has disbanded, the game will only receive minor patches, optimizations, and updates after launch.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains mature themes such as death, violence, and demise, as well as a dark and scary atmosphere. Death and violence are not depicted, only implied through the environment and text logs. There may be blood splatter in the environment.