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Daylight

You awake, trapped in an abandoned hospital. Your only source of light is your phone. You hit a dead-end and must turn around, but behind you lurks an eerie presence and strange noises…

50 29 April 2014

Daylight is an adventure developed by Zombie Studios, released 29 April 2014 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Daylight is

Daylight is an adventure game developed by Zombie Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Atlus USA. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The plot is centered around a woman named Sarah who regains consciousness in an abandoned hospital with no memory of how she got there. A mysterious voice tells her to find the secrets of the hospital. With a cell phone, which is her flashlight and map, she must explore the haunted hospital and its criminal past in order to escape.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, survival and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Daylight holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Daylight launched on 29 April 2014, within three weeks of Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor, Child of Light and Duck Game. All of them reviewed better. 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, Child of Light, Duck Game.

Official trailer

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When did Daylight come out?
Daylight was released on 29 April 2014 for PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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