Premature Evaluation: The Light Keeps Us Safe

0 DAVID GODSTIME October 17, 2018

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Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser’s sneaking through the machine apocalypse with his trusty (and seemingly magical) torch in robo-romp, The Light Keeps Us Safe.

Developer: Big Robot Ltd
Publisher: Big Robot Ltd

Release: Out now!
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: £15.49, $19.99, €16.79

The Light Keeps Us Safe works terrible magic with its cacophony of disquieting machine noises. Each new killer robot emits yet another nails-on-chalkboard screech that will bounce around in your head long after you’ve fled from their clutches. They’re the sounds of factories and dial-up internet and error messages warped and twisted and remixed inside metal demons. Normally they’re just grating, but here, in moonlit swamps and forests where there isn’t another soul, they start to become malevolent.

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