Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser s sneaking through the machine apocalypse with his trusty (and seemingly magical) torch in robo-romp, The Light Keeps Us Safe.
Developer: Big Robot Ltd
Publisher: Big Robot Ltd
Release: Out now!
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: 15.49, $19.99, 16.79
The Light Keeps Us Safe works terrible magic with its cacophony of disquieting machine noises. Each new killer robot emits yet another nails-on-chalkboard screech that will bounce around in your head long after you ve fled from their clutches. They re the sounds of factories and dial-up internet and error messages warped and twisted and remixed inside metal demons. Normally they re just grating, but here, in moonlit swamps and forests where there isn t another soul, they start to become malevolent.