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About This Game

The sun did not die. It was put out.

Twelve winters ago, someone extinguished the sun — and the dark poured in like water. One village endures, huddled around the Last Flame. You are the Lightborn: carry the flame into the horde, and find out who betrayed the light.

HORDELIGHT is a story-driven horde survival game: the auto-firing combat of the survivors genre, wrapped around a gothic mystery told across 8 chapters, a living village hub, and an RPG meta layer.

⚔️ Survive the horde

• Auto-firing weapons — position, dodge, and build. 7 weapons, each with a spectacular evolution.
  
• 4 playable Lightborn, each with a signature passive that changes how you fight.
  
• 10 active skills on keys 1-4 — meteor storms, blade frenzies, spirit armies.
  
• Hunt Ember Bearers, gather shards, then face the chapter's Guardian: 8 unique bosses with teleports, meteor rains and ring waves.

🏘️ Return to Lumenfall

• A living village hub: the Elder unfolds the mystery, villagers carry their own quest stories.
  
• Forge permanent upgrades, equip 6 gear slots, enhance items to +9 — star, moon and sun seals with random properties.
  
• Silas's wagon: surprise crates, choice stock and a carnival lottery wheel.

🔥 Rites of the Flame

Stack curses for greater rewards, unlock blessings as you progress — replay every chapter your way.

🌙 Beyond the story

• Daily Run — one attempt, a fresh modifier every day, escalating boss waves and a Reaper at the door.
  
• Endless Night — a dedicated enemy roster and returning Guardians. How long can your light last?
  
• 32 achievements · keyboard-first controls, no mouse required · Xbox controller support.

🗣️ 10 languages

Interface, story and dialogues in English, Türkçe, 中文, Русский, Español, Português, Deutsch, Français, 日本語, 한국어. Voice-overs in English and Turkish.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

HORDELIGHT uses generative AI tools for part of its art. Nothing is generated while the game runs.

Characters: the sprites of the game's named characters — the four playable heroes, the eight guardians and the villagers — were produced by generating a 3D model from an AI-assisted reference image, rigging and animating that model, and rendering the animation frames into 2D sprite sheets. The developer wrote every prompt, chose the camera, selected and measured the animations, and assembled and corrected every frame by hand.

Other artwork made with AI assistance and then curated and edited by the developer: story illustrations, character portraits, key art / capsule backgrounds, and a small number of decorative item images.

Human-made assets, used under CC0 or free licenses and credited in-game: the smaller enemy and creature sprites, all environments and tilesets, all music, and all sound effects.

Voice-over lines (English and Turkish) were generated with ElevenLabs text-to-speech under a commercial license, from scripts written by the developer.

The game does not generate any content with AI at runtime. The developer has reviewed all AI-assisted content to ensure it is not illegal or infringing.