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About This Game

The Light is dying.

The Light keeps the world living and in order, but it does not last on its own. It has to be renewed every generation. A Tale of Light begins in the first of three cities, Sómariel, with six adventurers of your choice.

Lead a party of six.

Build every adventurer yourself, choosing from seven races, four classes, genders, and hundreds of portraits. Warriors, Paladins, and Rogues protect the Earthwarden in the party, who is responsible for the Light.

Explore the town.

Meet NPCs that provide services and offer advice. Experience the change from day to night, while the weather cycles between rain, fog, storms, and snow, depending on your adventure.

Under the city lies the Marrow, three floors down.

Fight in turns.

Give every member of the party an order, then watch the round play out based on their stats that you choose when leveling up. Melee reaches only the front rank, so placement in the party matters. Attack, hide, backstab, cast, or run.

Decide what to carry.

Torches burn down and lanterns consume oil. The spoils from a fight take precious inventory slots. Each character has dedicated item slots for weapons, shields, wands, helms, and more.

Manage resources.

One purse and one pack serve the whole party. Spell points come back only under the open sky by day, or for a fee at the magic shop. Gold can be spent on items to help your party and for training to the next level. You'll sometimes need to decide one over the other.

Play it the old way. Or immerse yourself.

The console view frames the world in stone, with the party and the parchment beside it, reminiscent of 80s/90s blobbers. Immersive View fills the screen.

Also in the box

• A codex inside the game that explains every rule.

• Autosaves, quick saves and named saves.

• Every key can be rebound, and holding a key keeps you walking.

• Combat speed from half speed to three times.

• A full map for every level plus a minimap.

• Ambient sounds and music for atmosphere.

Early Access

A Tale of Light opens in the city of Sómariel (Body). The cities of Sóphiel (Mind) and Númalor (Spirit) come later.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Most of the game's pictures were generated with OpenAI image models during development, then cut out, framed and finished with the developer's own tools. That covers the character and monster portraits, item icons, town buildings and interiors, dungeon wall and floor textures, combat backdrops, story scenes and the game's emblem. The depth maps that give portraits and buildings their slight movement were made from those pictures with the Depth Anything model. The 3D buildings, the plaster and glass textures and the status icons were made with the developer's own scripts.

The sound effects, creature sounds, town ambience, the party's combat voices and the opening narration were generated with ElevenLabs. The rain, wind and thunder come from a licensed sound library. All of the music was made by the developer with Stable Audio.

Some in-game text, such as the help pages and item descriptions, was drafted with an AI writing assistant and edited by the developer.

The store capsule art is composed from the generated portraits and emblem. Nothing is generated while the game runs.