The Light Keeps Us Safe overview

Overview

The Light Keeps Us Safe comes from Big Robot Ltd and is published by Big Robot Ltd. It arrived on Steam on Oct 11, 2018, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Light Keeps Us Safe's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:31:20 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 57% positive across 198 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Light Keeps Us Safe is available in 4 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Light Keeps Us Safe has sold up to 5,890 units and has 128 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $77,265. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Light Keeps Us Safe overview details

The Light Keeps Us Safe combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The sky has flickered and gone out. The food is gone and the power can't last much longer. You can’t stay down here, cowering in the bunker. Those things out there in the dark will only take so long to find their way in... It's time to go outside and face what's waiting for you out there. Maybe then you can go into The Light, like the others... Only The Light Can Keep Us Safe. THE LIGHT KEEPS US SAFE is a procedurally-generated apocalypse in which you must master light to survive. Use stealth and evasion to avoid terrifying machines that patrol the desolate world, and employ the powers of Light to unpick their deadly traps. Featuring these terrifying and entertainingly bleak things: A sprawling world of stealth, survival, and exploration from the makers of SIR, YOU ARE BEING HUNTED and THE SIGNAL FROM TÖLVA. Horrifying and aggressive alien-machine enemies! Run, hide, and stave off death at the hands of a nightmarish cast of evil machines. Fight your instincts as you hide from light-fearing enemies in plain sight, in spotlights, under streetlamps, or even among the failing, flickering illuminations of burned out factories and railway yards. Unique light-based puzzles and challenges. Upgrade your modular flashlight to discover hidden structures, charge up light-sensitive machines, dazzle and overload enemies! Fiendish traps and disturbing hostile environments! Discover a grim world of pitfalls, poison, tripwires, booby-traps and hallucinations. A dark and disorentating procedurally-generated environment, different for each playthrough! A grim sense of existential thr…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Light Keeps Us Safe is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Full controller support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 13 September 2026 - 08:31:20 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 57% positive reviews.

Overview tags

ActionIndieStealthHorrorFirst-PersonRobotsProcedural GenerationDarkPsychological HorrorEarly AccessPsychologicalViolentSurvival HorrorStrategyExploration

Content descriptors

This game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence, Threat.

Support and legal notes

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