Steven Universe: Save the Light (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Steven Universe: Save the Light

Steven Universe: Save the Light is being developed for consoles and is planned for release Summer 2017. It has an original story with a customizable party of 4 characters and uses turn-based combat. It is also…

53 31 October 2017

What Steven Universe: Save the Light is

Steven Universe: Save the Light is an adventure game developed by Grumpyface Studios and released in 2017. It was published by Cartoon Network. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Steven Universe: Save the Light is being developed for consoles and is planned for release Summer 2017. It has an original story with a customizable party of 4 characters and uses turn-based combat. It is also a direct sequel to the mobile game, Attack the Light. Join the Crystal Gems on the ultimate quest! A mysterious new Gem has stolen a powerful weapon. Only Steven and his friends have what it takes to stop her. “Save the Light” is a unique RPG hybrid that combines real-time and turn-based combat.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Steven Universe series

Steven Universe: Save the Light is the fourth of 12 entries we hold in the Steven Universe series. It arrived 12 months after Cartoon Network: Battle Crashers. The next entry was Dreamland Arcade in 2017. Its critic score of 53 is 3 points above the series average of 50. The highest-rated entry is MultiVersus at 75.

See all 12 Steven Universe games in release order →

How it was received

Steven Universe: Save the Light holds a critic score of 53 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 18 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Steven Universe: Save the Light launched on 31 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

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