The best thing to be said about Daylight, the new procedurally generated horror game from Zombie Studios in Seattle, is that while it's a failure, at least it's an interesting failure
Daylight2014
Daylight
2014 Atlus USA49Bad
Playtime
ShortTypically 4 hours
Playable on
Available on
- $4.99
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Details
- Launch
- April 29, 2014
- Developer
- Zombie Studios
- Publisher
- Atlus USA
Overview
You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises…
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Reception
Press50
Players44
MediocreBad- Metacritic51from 59 reviews
- OpenCritic50from 55 reviews
On the first playthrough, it's distracting that Daylight is one-note tonally, unconvincingly written and acted, and unwisely tethers progress to increasingly drearily combing environments for every last scrap of 'oh no something terrible happened here once and everyone's dangerously mental' paperwork. On the second playthrough, it's oppressive. At a...
Daylight is somewhat of a strange title. It has the makings of a great horror game with its art design and world, but the game play revolves around too many of the same mechanics while the procedurally generated levels offer up more missteps than different experiences. Don't get me wrong, it is a rather creepy game and it can still frighten even the...
Daylight tries hard to scare you with its soundscape and atmosphere, but unfortunately it treads an all too familiar haunting ground that leaves you sitting impassively in your seat rather than at the edge of it.
Daylight's inherent creepiness is undone by randomly generated elements that dispel the all-important illusion of survival horror.