There Is No Light News

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We’re delighted to take part in the Steam Game Festival (June 16 - June 22), which is already live now! Throughout the event we've brought demos for each of the 8 games we are currently working on.



All of them are in different genres, settings and styles. You will surely find something that piques your interest! All the content available for Steam Summer Festival is free, some demos are long, some allow infinite play. Here is a little sneak peek of every title available.





Voidtrain is a first-person action/survival game where you become a crew member of an interdimensional express. Build your own train, upgrade it, craft weapons and travel across different mysterious worlds full of outlandish creatures, Nazis and other dangers.

https://youtu.be/o0bIODWSX5Y

Voidtrain’s demo features a base loop of the game, where you’ll be able to travel between biomes on your train, gather resources to upgrade it and stop by interdimensional train depots filled with Nazis ought to be defeated.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159690/Voidtrain/





Tunche is a charming, hand-drawn beat'em up hack and slash game with roguelike elements, co-op and a pinch of shaman witchcraft. Visit the amazonian jungle alone or together with your friends, choose one of the 5 unique characters and hack through hordes of enemies!

And if you like A Hat in Time, we got a big surprise for you — Hat Kid will be the 5th Playable Character in the game. Moreover, you’ll be able to test her in the demo!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/887450/Tunche/





Do you miss the golden era of Game Boy? Linked Mask is a 2D platformer that will make you reminiscent of the good old days, where a player has to overcome six towers, collect six masks containing elemental powers and ultimately conquer the Castle of the Primals. And there’s a chillingly cool soundtrack that will make your head bop as you traverse the deadly Towers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111590/Linked_Mask/





Plunge into a VHS-era cyberpunk world of Jack Move, an RPG featuring japanese style turn based battles and gorgeous Hi-Bit pixel art. Take on the role of Noa, a vigilante hacker who is thrust into a world of murder, kidnapping and dark research after her father goes missing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yOLVvhsJFw

There’s a brand new demo of Jack Move available that features a new slums area, a new dungeon and a whole bunch of new enemies for you to tangle with.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099640/Jack_Move/





Black Book is a dark RPG Adventure based on Slavic mythology and featuring card-based combat. You will take on the role of Vasilisa, a young sorceress on a quest to revive her beloved one. In order to do so, she has to uncover all the 7 seals of Black Book — a demonic artefact, said to be powerful enough to grant any wish.

The demo features an essential part of the story — the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. You’ll be able to test test the core game mechanics, battle regular demons and even test your strength in a fight against a boss.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138660/Black_Book/





There Is No Light is a pixel-art action adventure in a dark post-apocalyptic setting, which tells a story of a protagonist fighting against a fallen underground civilization and its appalling religious rituals.

In this demo you’ll be able to explore a small part of the game world. Visit a village, the existence of which remained unknown for a long time. Find out how people live in the underground world ruled by the Church of the Great Hand. Find your own playstyle by combining 3 available weapon types, so that eventually you can fight a giant boss Behemoth that gets in your way to freedom.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/





Tower Princess is a 3D roguelike action platformer where you'll have to beat a dungeon, defeat a dragon, rescue a princess/prince and manage a perfect date with them! There’s a wide variety of royalty members you can hit on — you’ll be able to find someone you like even if you’re not into humans.

The demo is a linear and brief sample of a run in one of the Castle's areas. It shows the visuals and the core gameplay of Tower Princess, but it's focused on the princess aid in combat, as without her help, you wouldn't stand a chance against the Evil Dragon. Are you ready to test yourself as a knight in shining armour?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138650/Tower_Princess/





SuchArt is a painting sim game featuring you being such an amazing artist. Really you rock, your latest DNA test is very positive about it. Now please paint, sell and expose your art from your new studio aboard the Space City. And don’t forget — the only limit is the size of your brush (or a flamethrower).

SuchArt demo features a separate room (a virtual studio instead of a real one you’ll get in the full game) with a limited amount of tools and an introductory part of the story. However, you’ll be able to test the core game mechanics and take a couple of commissions from virtual clients, which is already fun!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293180/SuchArt/

Hey everyone,

There Is No Light is a pixel-art action adventure in a dark post-apocalyptic setting, which tells one a story of a fallen civilization living underground, its appalling religious rituals and a protagonist going up against this world. Blast your way through the hordes of enemies, fight dangerous bosses and explore the world the way you want.




We’ve prepared a demo of There Is No Light especially for the Steam Game Festival. In this demo you’ll be able to explore a small part of the game world. Visit a village, the existence of which remained unknown for a long time. Find out how people live in the underground world ruled by the Church of the Great Hand. Find your own playstyle by combining 3 available weapon types, so that eventually you can fight a giant boss Behemoth that gets in your way to the freedom.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/

[h2]Other upcoming games to try during the festival:[/h2]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1099640/Jack_Move/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138660/Black_Book/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138650/Tower_Princess/

Greetings, everyone!

First of, we're happy to mention that during Digital Dragons Indie Celebration (May 13-15) you can play an early demo of There Is No Light – Just grab it from the game's page!

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In todays update we'd like to tell you more about the combat system in There Is No Light - namely, weapons that players will unlock as they progress through the game.





The player’s starting weapon. A balanced sword, deadly in the hands of a skilled player. Leveling up Omen unlocks the full potential of the weapon’s special ability, and expands the player’s moveset.

Works well against both groups of enemies and single targets alike. Due to the average attack distance, you always leave yourself room for retreat, allowing quick-witted players to dodge incoming attacks.





Combat gauntlets, which unlock after defeating a mighty Bearer of Vice. Unlike Omen, Superbia excels at one-on-one combat. It’s lightning-fast attacks, along with the ability to increase movement speed , allows the player to move around the battlefield at great speed. Due to Superbia’s small attack range , the chance of getting hurt increases, which makes fighting with Superbia more risky and aggressive.





A massive greatsword, which unlocks after defeating another powerful Bearer of Vice. Due to its enormous length, it has the slowest attack speed of all the weapons available, but Mendaicum more than compensates for this with a large attack range. Great for fighting off swarms of weak enemies - Mendacium will deal with them as quickly as possible, and will keep you at a safe distance!



The last of the available weaponry is currently in the active stages of development and testing. It will radically differ from all other weapons, and while we can’t give all of the details yet, let’s just say that its playstyle is much more focused on defense.

Be sure to follow There Is No Light on social media for more screenshots, concept art and other insights into development of the game - and, if you like what you see, please add the game to your Steam wishlist!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThereNoLight
VK (in Russian): https://vk.com/thereisnolightgame

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/

We at HypeTrain are happy to present a release of a free playable Prologue of Black Book, Adventure-RPG mixed with deck-building turn-based combat that takes you on a journey through Slavic folktales. It comes together with a Kickstarter campaign for the main game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284240/Black_Book_Prologue

Immerse yourself in a world of Slavic mythology, following the tale of Vasilisa as she tries to uncover the seven seals of Black Book — a relic said to be powerful enough to grant any wish.



Black Book: Prologue is a free standalone version of the game, featuring an essential part of the story - the First Day of Vasilisa becoming a witch. It lets you follow Black Book’s storyline from the very beginning and dive into the gameplay before full release — core mechanics remain the same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAwar9QdMao

Today Black Book goes LIVE on Kickstarter — support the game and take a look at lots of exclusive content on the project’s page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morteshka/black-book-an-rpg-rooted-in-slavic-mythology

Hello, and welcome!

This is the first in a series of posts about the game I’m working on, called “There Is No Light”. In this post you’ll learn about the game itself - and in the future ones I’ll describe different aspects of the game in more detail.

What is “There Is No Light”?

This is a unique world in the ruins of which lies the entire human civilization. People have been “living” underground for a long time. Having forgotten the sunlight, they blindly worship the god of the new world - the Great Hand, which once every few years descends to the Central Station and takes selected newborn children, from their parents' arms and into the world hidden behind the huge gates of the Temple.




One of the newborn is the child of the protagonist, whom the Church of the Hand forcibly takes and sacrifices in the Ascension ritual. This event launches an inevitable series of events that will change this world forever.




After the events at the Central Station, you are free to explore the world in any order convenient for you. The main philosophy of “There Is No Light” is not to impose on the player what and how to do it. You can skip all the dialogs in the game, and the combat system using several types of weapons allows you to change them on the fly and choose a fighting style that suits you.
Each time you damage an enemy or destroy an environment, you accumulate a rage scale that allows you to use a special ability of a weapon. Aggressive combat style is the key to the “There Is No Light” combat system. Running won't help.

In future blogs, we will provide more details on the combat system, characters, and the game world - so be sure to check back!

For now, subscribe to our Twitter - where you can already find a lot of art and other content of our game, and be the first to know all the latest news!

And if you like There Is No Light - be sure to add the game to your wishlist on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1132980/There_Is_No_Light/


Thank you!