Daylight

Released: Apr 29, 2014
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 18:11 GMT

Updates & announcements

20 posts

08 Jan 2015PC Gamer
Blacklight: Retribution devs Zombie Studios to close after 21 years
Blacklight: Retribution and Spec Ops developers Zombie Studios will close, the company announced today. Founded in 1994, the Seattle-based studio made the announcement on the official Zombie Studios website , but it doesn't spell the end for free-to-play shooter Blacklight: Retri
11 Nov 2014Developer post
Daylight in Russian
We know that there is an interest in Russian subtitles for Daylight. Fortunately, we happen to have a very awesome person who is fluent in Russian at the office and who was willing to take the time to translate the game. Russian is now available in Daylight. Happy gaming! Нас час
11 Nov 2014Developer post
Daylight in Russian
We know that there is an interest in Russian subtitles for Daylight. Fortunately, we happen to have a very awesome person who is fluent in Russian at the office and who was willing to take the time to translate the game. Russian is now available in Daylight. Happy gaming! Нас час
23 May 2014Developer post
Scare to Care!
Happy Friday! Join us on Saturday, May 23rd at 4PM PDT as we talk about Daylight for the Scare to Care stream: Scare to Care is a 48 Hour Gaming Marathon benefiting Camp Kesem: Come hang out, ask questions and watch Daylight scare to care!
23 May 2014Developer post
Scare to Care!
Happy Friday! Join us on Saturday, May 23rd at 4PM PDT as we talk about Daylight for the Scare to Care stream: Scare to Care is a 48 Hour Gaming Marathon benefiting Camp Kesem: Come hang out, ask questions and watch Daylight scare to care!
16 May 2014Developer post
Daylight Updates
Greetings! We have made some changes and further improvements to Daylight. 6/5/2014 - Added "Launch in safe mode" option. This is the same No SLI option with additions to fix crashes. 5/29/2014 - Updated crash logs to include more useful information. 5/19/2014 - Fixed water textu
Greetings! We have made some changes and further improvements to Daylight.
6/5/2014 -

Added "Launch in safe mode" option. This is the same No SLI option with additions to fix crashes.
5/29/2014 -

Updated crash logs to include more useful information.
5/19/2014 -

Fixed water textures not appearing in game.
5/16/2014 -

Implemented Xbox and Playstation controller screens and buttons. To activate it, you will have to go to Settings Menu > Use Controller and "Enable"
Defaulted load to Borderless as Full Screen was causing some issues with the users.
Fixed loading into a blank environment on a previous save.
Updated the Diagnostic Tool with a passthrough feature so you can still attempt to launch the game even if you fail the check.
Added a few programs to the Fail list in the Diagnostic Tool as they have been reported as causing issues.
Coming Soon:
Привет всем любителям ужасов! Мы рады сообщить что на данный момент ведётся работа над русским переводом игры Daylight. Надеемся что скоро мы сможем предложить Daylight в оригинальном озвучении с субтитрами на русском языке.
Hey horror fans! We are working on translating Daylight into Russian, and soon we will be able to offer the Russian translation of the original voiceover!
Original post
16 May 2014Developer post
Daylight Updates
Greetings! We have made some changes and further improvements to Daylight. 6/5/2014 - Added "Launch in safe mode" option. This is the same No SLI option with additions to fix crashes. 5/29/2014 - Updated crash logs to include more useful information. 5/19/2014 - Fixed water textu
Greetings! We have made some changes and further improvements to Daylight.
6/5/2014 -

Added "Launch in safe mode" option. This is the same No SLI option with additions to fix crashes.
5/29/2014 -

Updated crash logs to include more useful information.
5/19/2014 -

Fixed water textures not appearing in game.
5/16/2014 -

Implemented Xbox and Playstation controller screens and buttons. To activate it, you will have to go to Settings Menu > Use Controller and "Enable"
Defaulted load to Borderless as Full Screen was causing some issues with the users.
Fixed loading into a blank environment on a previous save.
Updated the Diagnostic Tool with a passthrough feature so you can still attempt to launch the game even if you fail the check.
Added a few programs to the Fail list in the Diagnostic Tool as they have been reported as causing issues.
Coming Soon:
Привет всем любителям ужасов! Мы рады сообщить что на данный момент ведётся работа над русским переводом игры Daylight. Надеемся что скоро мы сможем предложить Daylight в оригинальном озвучении с субтитрами на русском языке.
Hey horror fans! We are working on translating Daylight into Russian, and soon we will be able to offer the Russian translation of the original voiceover!
Original post
09 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.3
We have been working very hard to address the Fatal Error reports that many of you have seen since Patch 1.0 and while we had a work around to go to Version 1.0, we have now fixed the issue! Version 1.0 will be disabled now and you should be fine playing through the new version o
09 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.3
We have been working very hard to address the Fatal Error reports that many of you have seen since Patch 1.0 and while we had a work around to go to Version 1.0, we have now fixed the issue! Version 1.0 will be disabled now and you should be fine playing through the new version o
08 May 2014Developer post
PewDiePie Plays Daylight
In case you haven't gotten a chance to see PewDiePie become frightened playing Daylight: WARNING: SPOILERS! Part 1
08 May 2014Developer post
PewDiePie Plays Daylight
In case you haven't gotten a chance to see PewDiePie become frightened playing Daylight: WARNING: SPOILERS! Part 1
08 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.2
Greetings! As with all new technologies, there have been a few bumps in the road that we had not seen before that you have brought up and they have mostly been compatibility issues. We have been listening to your issues and troubleshooting the problems that you, the community, ha
Greetings!
As with all new technologies, there have been a few bumps in the road that we had not seen before that you have brought up and they have mostly been compatibility issues. We have been listening to your issues and troubleshooting the problems that you, the community, have brought up.
It is of the utmost importance to be aware that Daylight is built on next generation technology, and is the first truly and purely DX11 game. This means the title is not compatible with systems that are only running DX9 or DX10. To run Daylight you need not just a DX11 video card, but a DX11 capable OS as well, with the appropriate patches installed.
Through our troubleshooting we have found that the great majority of issues stem from the above requirements and users either thinking they are DX11 capable when they are not, or not understanding what DX11 entails.
System Requirements
First, the requirements to run the game are listed in the System Requirements on the Steam Store Page, but it is most important that you have:

DirectX 11 Supported OS: Windows 7 SP1 (must have KB 2670838 installed), Windows 8, Windows 8.1
DirectX 11 Supported Video Card
Compatibility Checker
Second, we are deploying a pre-launch validation checker that will determine if your system is properly configured to run Daylight. This will appear for users in the next patch.
This checker will provide us with a pass/fail checklist including:
Operating System
Which OS with Service Pack
Processor Count (32 or 64) Display Devices
Graphics Card
If your Graphics card is active
Feature Level
Driver Version Updates
Checks if KB2670838 is installed and lists updates Offending Processes
Checks for known offending processes
We have mainly been providing support to help get your system updated with your drivers as your PC needs to be as updated as possible in order to play Daylight after meeting the requirements. We are pleased that there has been a lot of community feedback and help on the forums as users help each other troubleshoot their systems compatibility and we really appreciate the informative and positive posts. Because the game requires new technology to run and some people have not had the best luck with updating, we have implemented this better way for us to help you troubleshoot your system so that we can help you determine whether your PC is compatible with our game.

This checker will run for everyone the first time
It will take about 15-30 seconds to check everything.
If you pass all categories, it will not run again.
If you need support, please click "Send Email to Zombie".
Patch Fixes
Along with this compatibility checker, we have also solved some instances of people getting white screens when launching the game if they were running on a single core processor.
We have also noticed that if you Alt+Tab the game during launch you might get a black and white screen. We are now looking into this but you should be ok if you refrain from using Alt+Tab.
Thank you for all of your continued support!
Edit:
We made a few changes to our Diagnostic tool to perform even better. So far this tool has been very successful in helping through our email support.
Original post
08 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.2
Greetings! As with all new technologies, there have been a few bumps in the road that we had not seen before that you have brought up and they have mostly been compatibility issues. We have been listening to your issues and troubleshooting the problems that you, the community, ha
Greetings!
As with all new technologies, there have been a few bumps in the road that we had not seen before that you have brought up and they have mostly been compatibility issues. We have been listening to your issues and troubleshooting the problems that you, the community, have brought up.
It is of the utmost importance to be aware that Daylight is built on next generation technology, and is the first truly and purely DX11 game. This means the title is not compatible with systems that are only running DX9 or DX10. To run Daylight you need not just a DX11 video card, but a DX11 capable OS as well, with the appropriate patches installed.
Through our troubleshooting we have found that the great majority of issues stem from the above requirements and users either thinking they are DX11 capable when they are not, or not understanding what DX11 entails.
System Requirements
First, the requirements to run the game are listed in the System Requirements on the Steam Store Page, but it is most important that you have:

DirectX 11 Supported OS: Windows 7 SP1 (must have KB 2670838 installed), Windows 8, Windows 8.1
DirectX 11 Supported Video Card
Compatibility Checker
Second, we are deploying a pre-launch validation checker that will determine if your system is properly configured to run Daylight. This will appear for users in the next patch.
This checker will provide us with a pass/fail checklist including:
Operating System
Which OS with Service Pack
Processor Count (32 or 64) Display Devices
Graphics Card
If your Graphics card is active
Feature Level
Driver Version Updates
Checks if KB2670838 is installed and lists updates Offending Processes
Checks for known offending processes
We have mainly been providing support to help get your system updated with your drivers as your PC needs to be as updated as possible in order to play Daylight after meeting the requirements. We are pleased that there has been a lot of community feedback and help on the forums as users help each other troubleshoot their systems compatibility and we really appreciate the informative and positive posts. Because the game requires new technology to run and some people have not had the best luck with updating, we have implemented this better way for us to help you troubleshoot your system so that we can help you determine whether your PC is compatible with our game.

This checker will run for everyone the first time
It will take about 15-30 seconds to check everything.
If you pass all categories, it will not run again.
If you need support, please click "Send Email to Zombie".
Patch Fixes
Along with this compatibility checker, we have also solved some instances of people getting white screens when launching the game if they were running on a single core processor.
We have also noticed that if you Alt+Tab the game during launch you might get a black and white screen. We are now looking into this but you should be ok if you refrain from using Alt+Tab.
Thank you for all of your continued support!
Edit:
We made a few changes to our Diagnostic tool to perform even better. So far this tool has been very successful in helping through our email support.
Original post
01 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.1
Greetings: We have found an issue where certain people were having problems with SLI which resulted in a Fatal Error Crash. If you were experiencing this crash and moved to the Version 1.0 build, we would like you to move back to the main branch by right clicking on Daylight, go
01 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.1
Greetings: We have found an issue where certain people were having problems with SLI which resulted in a Fatal Error Crash. If you were experiencing this crash and moved to the Version 1.0 build, we would like you to move back to the main branch by right clicking on Daylight, go
01 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.0
Patch Details: Fixed an issue where the wrong Video Adapter could be chosen resulting in the game not launching or failing to detect a DirectX 11 capable card. Daylight still requires DX11 to run as per the system requirements. If you are still having problems, please make sure y
01 May 2014Developer post
Patch 1.0
Patch Details: Fixed an issue where the wrong Video Adapter could be chosen resulting in the game not launching or failing to detect a DirectX 11 capable card. Daylight still requires DX11 to run as per the system requirements. If you are still having problems, please make sure y
29 Apr 2014Product Release
Now Available on Steam - Daylight
Daylight is Now Available on Steam! You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises... Experience Daylight, a procedurally generated psychologi
22 Apr 2014Developer post
Illuminating Game Design on the Daylight blog
Today we are Illuminating Daylight with Anthony Gallegos, one of the Game Designers on Daylight, on the Daylight blog! Check it out here: Have a question for Anthony? Let us know in the comments!
22 Apr 2014Developer post
Illuminating Game Design on the Daylight blog
Today we are Illuminating Daylight with Anthony Gallegos, one of the Game Designers on Daylight, on the Daylight blog! Check it out here: Have a question for Anthony? Let us know in the comments!

Updates & announcements

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Coming Soon:

6/5/2014 -

5/29/2014 -

5/19/2014 -

5/16/2014 -

Coming Soon:

System Requirements

Compatibility Checker

Patch Fixes

System Requirements

Compatibility Checker

Patch Fixes