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LIT: Bend the Light cover art

LIT: Bend the Light

Copperglass · 2020-05-15

SteamPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 17, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Mar 05, 2022 (Nintendo Switch), May 15, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 15, 2020 (Mac), May 15, 2020 (Linux), Apr 22, 2022 (Xbox One)

Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.

93%
positive of 323 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3.29★
PlayStation Store rating (21 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (91 reviews).
  • · Top 22% of 19,824 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.5k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 323 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$7.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.39 at Steam (2026-03-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
878720202026Week of 2020-05-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$7.99$1.392020-05-162026-09-202020-05-16 — best price $4.492020-05-22 — best price $4.992020-10-29 — best price $3.992020-11-02 — best price $4.992020-11-12 — best price $6.992021-02-11 — best price $3.492021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-08-30 — best price $2.792021-09-06 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $3.492021-11-01 — best price $6.992022-05-30 — best price $2.792022-06-06 — best price $6.992022-11-22 — best price $2.792022-11-29 — best price $6.992022-12-22 — best price $2.092023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-03-16 — best price $2.792023-03-23 — best price $6.992023-04-24 — best price $4.192023-05-01 — best price $6.992023-11-21 — best price $3.492023-11-28 — best price $6.992023-12-22 — best price $3.492024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-07-11 — best price $6.992024-11-30 — best price $3.492024-12-04 — best price $6.992024-12-19 — best price $2.092025-01-02 — best price $6.992026-03-19 — best price $1.392026-03-26 — best price $6.992026-05-04 — best price $2.092026-05-11 — best price $6.992026-06-25 — best price $1.392026-07-09 — best price $6.992026-09-20 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
82.5%
earned "Bouncy Business"
20.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Greek, Spanish - Latin America, French

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)52524%23
Xbox One (Xbox)15049%23
PS4 (PlayStation)13372%22
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

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

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzlePhysicsScienceBuildingAddictiveDifficult

Census log

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

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