The Town of Light
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| Studio | LKA | ||
| Publisher | LKA | ||
| Senior Developer | Luca Dalcò | ||
| composer | Davide Terreni | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
February 26, 2016 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , Xbox One | ||
| Game engine | Unity | ||
| genre | Adventure | ||
| control | Mouse, keyboard, gamepad | ||
| medium | Download | ||
| language | German, English, Italian | ||
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The Town of Light is an Adventure - Computer game of the Italian Studios LKA from the year 2016th
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The Town of Light takes place in the actually existing Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra, a neurological clinic founded in Volterra near Florence in 1887 . The plot is fictional, but based on real events. The player takes on the role of 16-year-old Renée, who was admitted to the asylum in 1938 and who returns to the dilapidated complex in the game to find her memories of the place.
Game principle and technology
The Town of Light is a 1st-person adventure, which means that the events are presented from the perspective of the player. The camera can be rotated freely in all directions with the mouse or gamepad; Navigation within the game world is carried out using the WASD buttons or the gamepad. It's a point-and-click adventure ; the mouse pointer is always in the middle of the screen and changes its appearance when it is positioned over objects in the game world with which an interaction is possible. The interaction can then be initiated using the mouse buttons or the gamepad.
Production notes
The computer game was developed and published by LKA; that was used while Unity - Engine . The release was on February 26th, 2016. The computer game was released for the PlayStation 4 , Windows and Xbox One platforms and in German, English and Italian.
reception
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The Town of Light received mixed reviews. Metacritic aggregates 22 reviews to an average of 64. Der Spiegel saw parallels in the gameplay to the multi-award-winning adventure games Dear Esther and Gone Home . Reviewer Carsten Görig described isolation, escape into one's own world and hopelessness as central elements of the game, which is difficult to bear because of its real background and which lacks the ease of traditional horror games. Görig criticized the game's stale technology at the time of publication.
Web links
- Official website
- The Town of Light at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Spiegel.de: The Town Of Light: Ort des Schreckens. Retrieved June 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Alexander Gehlsdorf: "The Town Of Light" in the test: On the trail of madness. In: GIGA. STRÖER Media Brands AG, June 8, 2017, accessed on December 9, 2017 .
- ^ A b Metacritic.com: The Town of Light. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .