Golden Light
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 1Gb, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Walls are watching you!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 59 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 42 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CRUEL ($6.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Gravewood High (free, scores 1).
9 of the 463 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 599 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 69, 8.4 times as much.
The drop-off
65% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Mr. Pink may not tip. But he delivers. The best thing here is not the style. Not the meat. Not roguelite mechanics per se. Not the perhaps strongest (read: most balanced) rendition of survival horror combat I've seen - where it remains unwieldy enough for you to be uncomfortable in fights while maintaining a fair degree of aglitily and responsiveness. What matters is Golden Light manages to create a dynamic...
this game is going to give u a headache and im not even joking about it. still fun when u hit something's head with a sword made of thousand human arms
Its a fun game. I don't know how to describe. Its a fleshy fever dream. At some point you will accept everything the game is throwing at you .-.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Golden Light scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1245430/golden-lightReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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