A new survival game, Light No Fire, was announced at the Game Awards and MeinMMO editor Dariusz Müller finds it really interesting.
Light No Fire is an upcoming survival game from Hello Games, the development studio behind No Man’s Sky.
The game was presented with a trailer at the Game Awards 2023. Studio co-founder and CEO Sean Murray then gave some insight into the title, which is set to appear on Steam (via X.com).
The basic principle of Light No Fire is based on elements typical of the genre: exploring the game world, building objects and buildings, and surviving despite various dangers. There should also be different biomes, resources and enemies.
Here you can see the announcement trailer for Light No Fire:
Light No Fire – the new game from the makers of No Man’s Sky in the trailer
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In the trailer we can also get occasional glimpses of an underwater world and bunny people. You can also see a player flying through the air on a kite.
In general, the game world of Light No Fire is a fantasy world that is roughly reminiscent of games like Skyrim – only as a survival game. Skyrim is of course interchangeable in the comparison. Light No Fire wants to create a huge and immersive world full of fantasy creatures and Skyrim is of course the big pioneer.
Light No Fire wants to stand out from other survival games
I’m not a blind Hello Games fan and I don’t have as many hours in No Man’s Sky as I would like. That’s why I have to emphasize at this point that, despite my respect for the development studio, I wouldn’t look forward to a game if it didn’t arouse my general interest. But Light No Fire was able to convince me with its game idea.
The survival game wants to offer a huge open world in which you colonize a strange, not yet explored fictional planet. Okay, we know that from many other games too. What’s special about Light No Fire is the scale. The game world should be the size of the earth.
On stage at the Game Awards, Sean Murray explained that there are no typical video game mountains that you can climb with ease. Instead, there should be real mountains that are as big as Mount Everest or larger and provide the corresponding experience when you reach the top.
Overall, it should be an open world without borders. While No Man’s Sky offered an entire universe with comparatively small planets, Light No Fire focuses on a single giant planet.
Why do I trust the developers so much?
No Man’s Sky didn’t have the best release, but Hello Games never gave up on the game. Countless patches and content updates later, we have – in my opinion – one of the best and most innovative survival games of all time.
I mean, how many players have been severely disappointed in exploring Bethesda’s mega-RPG Starfield and its travel options because they were expecting No Man’s Sky’s system? I think that speaks for the quality of the game – even if such a system was never announced for Starfield.
Who is writing here? Dariusz Müller is a big fan of survival games. No matter whether it’s ARK: Survival Evolved, Icarus or Sons of the Forest, he simply has a lot of fun with the genre and can spend hundreds of hours fighting for survival in the games. Only competitive shooters and Pokémon excite him more.
Now you can of course say that it’s the developers’ job to improve a game with flaws, but Hello Games continues to bring free updates to the sci-fi game years after No Man’s Sky became a really good title.
The enormous cheapskate in me always likes free updates, but the quality of the new content is just right. They are really a cool addition every time and actually provide added value.
I’m just firmly convinced that Hello Games has learned from the problems with the release of No Man’s Sky and wants to do better this time from the start. I also have the commendable development of No Man’s Sky in mind and immediately feel like taking a look at the new title.
Light No Fire wants to create a complete planet as a game world. Another development studio has something similar planned: The creator of PUBG revolutionized gaming – his next game should reflect the entire world