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Strayed Lights
Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system. Shift between colours to repel attacks and strike back. Explore a dreamlike world as you restore your light that was torn by shadows.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-19.
“A case where the developers' ambitions outpaced the capabilities of the game engine. I was hard-pressed to find a performance balance that I could satisfactorily maintain. Still, I got it on sale for a song, and it was well worth the short-lived time I spent playing it. It can…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This game is not very long BUT it was an interesting game to play. The game is solely based on parries and counters with fast paced combat and quick hand eye coordination. With the starting hard difficulty adding more non-parry able attacks with faster changing of colors to…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“The first 10mins feel like an overly long, rough walking simulator. This is followed by a boring combat tutorial filled with slow-paced cinematics. The final straw is the unpolished terrain and map design. Not to mention, the game is buggy here and there, and the OST is quite…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedLatest official news
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Strayed Lights Anniversary: A Gleaming Update for You!
Hey everyone! We're absolutely thrilled to celebrate Strayed Lights' first birthday with you! This past year has been an incredible journey, and we wouldn't be here without the amazing support of our
Strayed Lights + Arise: A Simple Story
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Watch the developer play!
Watch Germain, character artist at Embers while he plays Strayed Lights in Challenge Mode . Discover some behind the scenes, intentions and some unique details about the game!
New difficulty modes added to Strayed Lights
Hello Everyone! We were very touched by the fantastic feedback we got from the latest "Trials" update. It seems that players have acquired a taste for taking on the best and most difficult that Straye
New Strayed Lights Update : Trials and Memories Modes!
Hello Everyone! Over a month has passed since the release of Strayed Lights, and we've been hard at work making post-release adjustment patches and filing down some hard edges. First of all, we really
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-19.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Singleplayer · Action-Adventure · Souls-like · Third Person · Casual · Dark Fantasy · Cinematic · Atmospheric · Action · Surreal · Colorful · 3D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Korean * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Ukrainian * , Polish * , Turkish * , Catalan * … |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://strayedlights.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, Windows 10 or Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i5-3330 3.0 GHz, AMD FX-8300 3.3 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970 Storage: 10 GB available space Additional Notes: AMD FSR 2.0 and Nvidia DLSS 2.0 supported | Gamepad or controller recommended.