The Game Census
Golden Light cover art

Golden Light

Mr. Pink · 2022-03-11

SteamEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 10, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Eat weapons, be scared and question your own mind in this Survival-Horror FPS Prop Hunt Roguelike about meat. Walls are watching you!

85%
positive of 4.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (165 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 28,654 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 80k–180k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,008 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-06-25) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $23.56 · on sale 22 of 110 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
14914920202026Week of 2020-07-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 145 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 149 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.56$3.992020-07-102026-10-082020-07-10 — best price $11.042020-12-22 — best price $9.742021-09-28 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $14.992022-06-23 — best price $13.392022-10-28 — best price $19.992022-11-29 — best price $19.992023-01-16 — best price $9.992023-04-10 — best price $9.992023-05-22 — best price $7.992023-06-30 — best price $9.992023-09-07 — best price $19.992023-11-06 — best price $19.992023-12-02 — best price $8.702023-12-23 — best price $14.692024-02-21 — best price $14.692024-03-24 — best price $17.192024-05-14 — best price $8.612024-06-20 — best price $5.802024-07-19 — best price $4.992024-09-24 — best price $5.622024-10-11 — best price $7.802024-11-01 — best price $6.592024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-01-05 — best price $14.692025-03-03 — best price $6.992025-04-18 — best price $6.742025-05-19 — best price $6.392025-06-27 — best price $19.992025-07-31 — best price $19.992026-03-09 — best price $4.992026-05-02 — best price $23.432026-05-16 — best price $23.242026-06-01 — best price $5.992026-06-16 — best price $23.172026-07-01 — best price $22.812026-07-16 — best price $22.932026-07-30 — best price $22.922026-08-14 — best price $23.062026-10-08 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
65.1%
earned "Fire safety"
7.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Russian, German, Spanish - Spain, French, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2021-03-18, latest 2022-03-11 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)6,4951%67

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFPSActionHorrorShooterStealthSurrealStylizedAdventureOld School

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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