When is the Light No Fire release date? The survival sandbox game was announced at The Game Awards in 2023, and it immediately caught our attention thanks to its Valheim vibes and colorful fantasy world. Developer Hello Games has been working on No Man’s Sky for over a decade, so it was a welcome surprise to see co-founder Sean Murray join Geoff Keighley on stage to reveal the studio’s next ambitious title.
Like Valheim, Light No Fire is an exploration and building game set in an open world featuring a variety of procedurally generated biomes, enemies, and resources. Murray outlines the team’s goal to create “a planet that is as varied as a universe” – and from the gameplay trailers we’ve seen so far, the scale of its mountains and seas is certainly vast. Murray touts Light No Fire as “the first real open world” game, so let’s dig into everything we know ahead of the release date.
Light No Fire release date estimate
We expect the Light No Fire release date to fall in Q4 2024 at the earliest. The open-world game has been in development for more than five years already, but given its massive scope, we can’t rule out a Q1 2025 release just yet.
Light No Fire is coming to PC via Steam, though additional platforms or consoles are yet to be confirmed. Given the proliferation of No Man’s Sky across PC, consoles, and even the iPad, we expect that Light No Fire will appear on all major platforms.
Much like No Man’s Sky, we expect that Hello Games has a long-term roadmap planned for this project, with plenty of updates in the pipeline following the launch. Given the studio’s success with expansion packs for No Man’s Sky, we anticipate new questlines, mechanics, and hardware support will keep players coming back long after the Light No Fire release date has passed.
Light No Fire trailer
After an overview of the history of No Man’s Sky and all the work Hello Games has put into it, Sean Murray and Geoff Keighley revealed that the fantastical open-world game has been in the works for five years. Light No Fire bears a remarkable resemblance with its general look and feel to No Man’s Sky, but it’s clearly set on a single planet rather than 18 quintillion of them – and this one even has little rabbit people!
As you can see in the trailer, this expansive world has quite a few gorgeous biomes to explore, with massive mountains to scale and, more importantly, dragons to ride and habitats to build. No doubt fans of No Man’s Sky will love every minute of it.
Light No Fire gameplay
Hello Games claims that Light No Fire has the depth of an RPG game and the freedom of a survival sandbox, with four major design pillars: a multiplayer Earth, a procedural Earth, a fantasy Earth, and an unexplored Earth.
It’s clear that there’ll be plenty to discover in the co-op game, and we can already anticipate that it’ll be best experienced with friends in tow. As with most survival games, Light No Fire includes building mechanics that encourage communities to come together and construct persistent settlements across the planet’s diverse biomes.
The planet itself is teeming with wild beasts and “thick with lore,” though we’ll have to wait and see what implications that lore might have on the story at large. Hello Games says that classic fantasy is a major source of inspiration, and the studio wishes to capture the same “adventure, charm, and imagination” in Light No Fire. Either way, it looks like the planet is one big mystery to solve, and we can’t wait to see the full scale of Hello Games’ ambition.
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