Child of Light
The Black Queen has stolen the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. You play as Aurora, a young princess with a pure heart whose soul is brought to the kingdom of Lemuria. Embark on a quest to recapture the three…
Child of Light is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 29 April 2014 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U and Xbox One. The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What Child of Light is
Child of Light is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2014. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Google Stadia and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on UbiArt Framework. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Child of Light is a hand-painted platforming role-playing game presented like a storybook told in verse. It follows Aurora, a young princess who falls gravely ill and awakens in the mysterious, dreamlike land of Lemuria, a kingdom plunged into darkness after the Queen of the Night stole away its sun, moon, and stars. Longing to return home to her father, Aurora sets out with her glowing firefly companion Igniculus to recover the captured lights and free the land from tyranny. Along the way she gathers a band of unlikely allies and grows in courage and strength as she journeys through a fairytale world of wonder and peril.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 1 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Child of Light holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 385 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2Duo E8200 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Child of Light launched on 29 April 2014, within three weeks of Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Duck Game and Outlast: Whistleblower. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Duck Game, Outlast: Whistleblower.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Child of Light yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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