The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition
Fair · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $3.29/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD 290 equivalent or greater, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
An award-winning roguelike VR shooter with realistic gunplay & immersive light magic. Ascend the ranks of The Light Brigade to unlock new weapons, upgrades, classes, and abilities as you fight to restore light to the darkness.
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 15 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 32 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, One-armed robber (free, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats BONELAB ($39.99, scores 37).
Of the 433 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 281 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 7.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 2.3 times as much.
The drop-off
93% start to <1% 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
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Writing this review because I haven't even beaten the game yet and its still an underrated gem, performs well, excellent gunplay and developer support is ABSOLUTE GOLD!! only issue I ever had was the lack of support for controllers outside the quest (not sure if its still an issue ) but it was still more than playable for me. Games like this are the reason I still own a headset in 2026
The Light Brigade took over for me as my favorite PCVR rogue like shooter. For myself that was previously From Other Suns - an Oculus exclusive that I loved even though it felt quite unfinished. At the time of writing this review, I have not played the game in several months, but just saw the Definitive Edition update that gets me excited to jump back in to see the new content. The reason I am writing this review...
The Light Brigade is a tactical, roguelike dark-fantasy shooter built specifically for VR. The story drops you straight into a ruined world shrouded in darkness: the Obsidians have destroyed the sacred Sun and Light Crystals, the religious authorities ignored warnings from scholars, and now the realm has fallen into ruin. As a member of the Light Brigade, your mission is to fight through corrupt forces, free trapped...
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Cite this score
The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition scores 65/100 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/1579880/the-light-brigade-definitive-editionReviews 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 Sep 30.
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