At the Game Awards, a new survival game with a large open world called Light No Fire was announced. MeinMMO editor Dariusz Müller finds this idea appealing and has long wished for a No Man’s Sky in a fantasy setting.
Light No Fire is an upcoming survival game from Hello Games, the studio behind No Man’s Sky. The difference is that it doesn’t take place in space: the multiplayer game aims to create a huge and immersive world full of fantasy creatures.
The game was presented at the Game Awards 2023 with a trailer. Subsequently, studio co-founder and CEO Sean Murray provided some insights into the title, which is set to be released on Steam (via X.com).
The basic principle of Light No Fire is based on genre-typical elements: exploring the game world, crafting items and buildings, and surviving despite various dangers. There should also be different biomes, resources, and enemies.
Here you can see the announcement trailer for Light No Fire:
In the trailer, we can also catch glimpses of an underwater world and rabbit-people. Additionally, we see a player flying through the air on a dragon.
Generally, the world of Light No Fire will be a fantasy world with dragons and everything that comes with it, which roughly resembles open-world games like Skyrim – only as a survival game.
Light No Fire aims to stand out from other survival games
I’m not a blind “Hello Games” fan and I don’t have as many hours in No Man’s Sky as I would like. Therefore, I must emphasize that despite my respect for the studio, I wouldn’t be looking forward to a game if it didn’t pique my general interest. However, Light No Fire managed to convince me with its game idea.
The survival game wants to offer a huge open world where you can settle on a foreign, yet unexplored fictional planet. Okay, we know that from many other games as well. What’s special about Light No Fire is the scale. The game world is said to be the size of Earth.
On stage at the Game Awards, Sean Murray explained that there will be no typical video game mountains that can be easily climbed. Instead, there should be actual mountains that are as tall as Mount Everest or larger and provide the corresponding experience when reaching the summit.
Overall, it is supposed to be an open world without boundaries. While No Man’s Sky offered a whole universe with relatively small planets, Light No Fire focuses on one single huge planet.
Why do I trust the developers so much?
No Man’s Sky didn’t have the best release, but Hello Games never gave up on the game. Countless patches and content updates later, we now have – in my opinion – one of the best and most innovative survival games of all time.
I mean, how many players were disappointed by the exploration in Bethesda’s mega-RPG Starfield and its travel options because they expected the system from No Man’s Sky? I believe that speaks to the quality of the game – even though such a system was never promised for Starfield.
Now, one might say that it’s the developers’ job to improve a game with bugs, but Hello Games continues to provide free updates for the sci-fi game even years after No Man’s Sky became a really good title.
Free updates are generally appreciated by the immense miser in me, but the quality of the new content is also simply right. They really are a cool expansion every time and provide actual value.
I am simply convinced that Hello Games has learned from the problems of No Man’s Sky’s release and wants to do it better this time from the start. With the commendable development of No Man’s Sky in mind, I am immediately eager to check out the new title.
Light No Fire aims to create a complete planet as a game world. Something similar is also planned by another developer studio: The creator of PUBG revolutionized gaming – their next game is set to depict the entire world
