Deadlight: Director’s Cut
StorySet in an apocalyptic 1986, the survivors of a zombie outbreak live on among the remains of human civilization, trying to survive this hell on earth by any means necessary. You play Randall Wayne, an introverted and slightly paranoid survivor searching the destroyed streets of Seattle for his loved ones. Through tense platforming and life-threatening zombie encounters you must decide whether to use scarce ammunition and weapons to decimate the horde, or navigate the environment to sneak past them and hide. There’s more than one way to survive against the walking undead remains of the human race, now known only as ‘shadows’.
Deadlight: Director’s Cut enhances the original Deadlight in every way. Improved visuals and textures bring even more detail to the remnants of Seattle, plus enhanced controls and new animations make Randall even more agile. Now you must fight for your life and put your survival skills to the test in Deadlight: Director’s Cut new game mode, the ‘Survival Arena’.Features
- Solve puzzles and overcome environmental hazards in tense 2D platforming
- Decimate zombies with melee combat and weapons, or sneak past using the environment. Combat isn’t always the answer, especially when ammunition, weapons, and resources are scarce
- Separated from his family, search the ruins of a ‘1986’ Seattle and uncover the fate of Randall’s loved ones
- Survive endless waves of zombies in the new ‘Survival Arena’ mode! Use Interactive defences to block zombies and access new areas, or fightback using new weapons like the Machine Gun, Molotov Cocktail and Sniper Rifle to rank above the rest in online-leader boards
- Running at 1080p, with superior controls and new animations, this is how survival was meant to look.
- Watch through the original Developer Diaries and learn more about the Deadlight series!
- Explore the gorgeous art of Deadlight in the Deadlight: Director’s Cut digital art book accessed in-game!
Game Discussion
Steam User 17
While the storyline may be short, the immersion, particularly through the graphics, direction, and especially the camera movements and focus, is truly impressive. I believe it's a great option for enjoyment during the sale.
Steam User 5
Pretty janky, and the story isn't particulary interesting, but still a decent limbo-like. Visually still holds up pretty well. Worth playing for fans of the genre
Steam User 6
Played this on the SteamDeck without any problems with saving like other people.
I think the saving issue is because it’s in chapters and parts and the game loads the start of the chapter NOT where you were exactly so you have to load up the chapter and bit you were at in the games menu. I lost half an hour before finding this out.
The game is quite decent for its time and the mechanics works well BUT the whole game is a trial and error type game…run, die, run, pass thing that kills you, run, die, run, pass thing that kills you and on and on. One part was so bad at this I nearly gave up on it. Only carried on with it due to having completed it on the Xbox years ago.
The ending was a surprise to me ( yes I forgot how it ended…old age ). I played this and completed it in about 4-6 hours searching and backtracking at bits.
Replayability only if you want 100% with a walkthrough to collect all items in game and some achievements that you missed. I’ll play it again in the future to get the remaining achievements I missed. 7/10 recommend if you can pick it up cheap in a sale…not worth the full price !
Steam User 2
Played this game many, many times literally years ago and always having fun from cinematic platformer gameplay style like in Flashback and Another World, but with more "free" main character movement.
But story then and now is weak, uninteresting and uninspired, so for me it's just fun little game that barely anyone remember and, for some reason, it feels good to play once in a few years.
I was even surprised when found that Deadlight has a Steam release.
Steam User 4
shis lowkey broken sometimes but if you can get around the bugs awesome game
Steam User 3
RATMAN, I HATE YOU
Deadlight: Director’s Cut? More like Dead a thousand times on Ratman’s stupid traps Cut.
I came here for zombies, survival, and a deep emotional story.. not to participate in some rat-themed Saw movie. Ratman, you little sewer goblin, I hope the next rat you eat gives you food poisoning. Your traps turned me into a professional death speedrunner. I swear I spent more time dying in your Spikes than running from zombies.
By the time I escaped, I wasn’t scared of zombies anymore. I was scared of pressure plates.
10/10 would suffer again.
Steam User 0
This is a cool little game, yeah the saving thing is a bit annoying at times but I got it on sale and well worth it. I can't complain.