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Light Bearers

FAT BOMB STUDIOS, LLC · 2018-10-23

Steam

ActionCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer

Releases: Oct 23, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Light Bearers is a multiplayer asymmetrical hide and seek game that pits a sinister shadow against cute light bears!

Light Bearers is a 2018 Action, Casual, Indie, and Free To Play game priced at free-to-play, with a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 1192 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners.

0
playing now
89%
positive of 1.2k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 15 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (149 reviews).
  • · Top 14% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12912920182026Week of 2018-10-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-14 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-10-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

IndieActionCasualHorrorMultiplayerFree to Play

Census log

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

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