There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 14.2h 27.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 1,043 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Battle your way through the grim Underground world in this brutal action-adventure RPG. Exterminate hordes of enemies, fight dangerous bosses and explore the world the way you want!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Must support OpenGL 2.1 or higher. Intel HD 3000 or better., 4.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 36 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 48 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 64 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hyper Light Drifter ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats SINNER: Sacrifice for Redemption ($18.99, scores 11).
More about There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition
Of the 474 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 318 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 14.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
34% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Yet another game got ruined by the "soul-like" mentality. What compel game developers to think that fighting insanely fast enemies make a fun fight? (they're probably mistaking the rush of endorphin that one get after defeating an enemy with an actual sense of satisfaction? - same can be said about Dark Souls combat by the way-) . And the worst part is that the combat consist mainly of button-mashing (dash to one...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Honestly i wanted to play more to have a better view but the game does not pull me at all. While the game looks beautiful and the story seems alright i guess, there are 2 things that i cant really overlook. One is the combat. Its very bland. Hit , dodge and once in a while you use your special attack to interrupt a yellow attack. The skill tree serves to give very little things to spice things up. Even then i think...
There Is No Light is a pretty good but frustrating Hack and Slash souls like game, but let's talk about the story. Long ago humanity was forced to flee to the underground after horrible monsters and demons took over the surface, no one has seen the outside world and centuries and now the underground world is ruled by the religious zealot known as the Hand, heretic cults and the monsters of the underground. But all...
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Cite this score
There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1132980/there-is-no-light-enhanced-editionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.