About This Demo

DARK IN LIGHT Demo

Experience the beginning of DARK IN LIGHT with the free demo.

A man falls asleep after working late and wakes up in a strange city overrun by monsters.

Gather limited resources, explore the darkness, and fight to survive.
Your journey begins as you search for a way back to the son who may still be waiting for you.

What You Can Experience in the Demo

The demo lets you play through the opening portion of DARK IN LIGHT and experience its core exploration, combat, and resource management systems.

• Explore the Office and Gas Station areas

• Fight using firearms and various melee weapons

• Manage limited ammunition and healing items

• Discover items and documents

• Experience environmental challenges and events

• Upgrade weapons and equipment

• Melee weapon durability system

• Individual leveling for melee weapons

• Destructible objects and item drops

• Save / Load and Continue systems

• Steam Cloud support

• Customizable key bindings and aim assist

• DLSS support

• Steam Deck and gamepad support

Explore the Darkness

Explore the Office and Gas Station areas while searching for weapons, items, and resources needed to survive.

Clues, documents, and interactive elements are hidden throughout the environment and may help you find a way forward.

Survive with Limited Resources

Use firearms and melee weapons to fight the monsters that stand in your way.

Ammunition and healing items are limited, so deciding when to fight and how to manage your resources is an important part of survival.

Use and Develop Your Melee Weapons

Each melee weapon has its own attack style and characteristics.

Manage weapon durability, level up your melee weapons through use, and choose the weapon that best fits your playstyle.

Demo and Full Game

The demo is designed to introduce the opening portion of DARK IN LIGHT and its core gameplay systems.

The full game will expand beyond the demo with new locations, enemies, puzzles, weapons, events, and additional story content.

The demo will also continue to receive updates and improvements.

If you have feedback or encounter any issues, please share them through the Steam Community.

Your feedback helps us continue improving DARK IN LIGHT.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game used generative AI tools in a limited way during development to assist with some image asset creation (e.g., concept/reference and promotional/UI-related imagery) and code drafting/refactoring. All outputs were reviewed, edited or rewritten, and tested by the development team before being included in the product. The game does not connect to external AI services and does not generate new text, images, or audio in real time during gameplay. All content has been reviewed to avoid copyright or rights infringement.