History VideoGame / TheLightKeepsUsSafe

In ''The Light Keeps Us Safe'' you play as the last remaining human survivor of an apocalyptic event in which mysterious, seemingly alien robots have wiped out human civilization. The rest of humanity has long since either been wiped out or "escaped into the Light" while you were hiding in a bunker, but now that your food has run out you're forced to explore the robot-infested surface for a means of survival.

* StarfishRobots: The basic robots strongly resemble the Sentinels from ''Film/TheMatrix'' trilogy.

* Interface: There's a robot scarecrow that doesn't move at all normally, but if it sees you, it will chase you down and warp your vision, causing a tunneling effect and a prism-like effect for light sources. No form of light will hinder it, but you can simply run away until it stops chasing you.

** SilentProtagonist: The player character also doesn't vocalize at all.

** Once it sees you, [[spoiler: the invisible stalker]] will follow you throughout the level and can only be stunned temporarily by the correct beam on your flashlight.

''The Light Keeps Us Safe'' is a [[ProceduralGeneration procedurally-generated]] open-world first-person StealthBasedGame by Big Robot Ltd, the creators of ''VideoGame/SirYouAreBeingHunted'' and ''VideoGame/TheSignalFromTolva''.

The game came out of early access into a full release in October 2019.

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* WeakenedByTheLight: While the flashlight can't be used offensively against most robots, there are a few specific enemies that can be temporarily neutralized with it. You can disable the Dalek-like proximity traps with the basic beam, the slow-moving heat-seeking black energy balls can be erased with the focus beam, and [[spoiler: the invisible stalker]] can be stunned with the revealer beam.

It can best be summarized as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Sir, You Are Being Hunted'', only with a much more dark, serious tone, more simplified inventory management, and no weapons to fight back with. Instead, your character has access to a special flashlight with multiple light modes that can be used to overcome obstacles. The flashlight's abilities include a standard beam that temporarily disables proximity shock traps, a focused charger beam that powers doors and shuts down gas emitters, a revealer beam that reveals cloaked mines and invisible platforms, and a dissolver beam that dissolves certain walls and energy field traps. Since you lack any offensive abilities to fight back against the robots, your survival options are limited to stealth, throwing bottles to distract enemies or draw them away, or running away.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The central goal of the game is to gather enough motes of light to power on the giant machine in the bunker so you can "escape into the light". When you finally accomplish this, your body collapses and some sort of energy is pulled out of your body while the female voice that's been guiding you the whole game starts repeating lines in a strange manner and becoming distorted. It's left unclear whether you've [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence]] or if the Light was a trap all along.]]

* CosmicDeadline: It seems that quite a lot of the game's total content, including new enemies and obstacles, are crammed into the last two levels.

* StealthBasedGame: Even more so than ''Sir, You Are Being Hunted'', due to the inability to fight back against the robots.

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: It's been simplified from ''Sir, You are Being Hunted'' (all resources have a separate inventory slot, in contrast to the GridBasedInventory InventoryPuzzle of ''Sir''), but you still are reliant on resources (food, bandages, and distraction bottles) which you are able to carry a limited number of, and which have to be scavenged from the environment.

It can best be summarized as a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Sir, You Are Being Hunted'', only with a much more dark, serious tone and no weapons to fight back with. Instead, your character has access to a special flashlight with multiple light modes that can be used to overcome obstacles. The flashlight's abilities include a standard beam that temporarily disables proximity shock traps, a focused charger beam that powers doors and shuts down gas emitters, a revealer beam that reveals cloaked mines and invisible platforms, and a dissolver beam that dissolves certain walls and energy field traps. Since you lack any offensive abilities to fight back against the robots, your survival options are limited to stealth, throwing bottles to distract enemies or draw them away, or running away.

* KillAllHumans: The machines seem to exist solely to wipe out humanity. No explanation as to their origin is ever given.

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