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The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition

Funktronic Labs · 2023-02-22

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ActionRPGStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Virtual Reality

Releases: Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR2), Feb 22, 2023 (Oculus Rift), Feb 22, 2023 (Meta Quest 2), Feb 22, 2023 (Windows Mixed Reality), Feb 22, 2023 (SteamVR), Feb 22, 2023 (PlayStation VR)

An award-winning roguelike VR shooter with realistic gunplay & immersive light magic. Ascend the ranks of The Light Brigade to unlock new weapons, upgrades, classes, and abilities as you fight to restore light to the darkness.

The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition is an Action, RPG, Strategy game released in 2023, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and Very Positive (88% of 1277 reviews).

13
playing now
88%
positive of 1.3k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4.53★
PlayStation Store rating (1,001 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

13 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 21:00 UTC (census sample)

The Light Brigade is a video game developed and published by American studio Funktronic Labs. The player controls a member of the titular Light Brigade as they fight to free their world from corrupted forces. The Light Brigade released in early access during February 2023 for PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 2 and Microsoft Windows.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 13 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 79 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–57k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,277 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2026-03-19) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
18318320232026Week of 2023-02-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 171 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1822026-09-15 06:00 — 3 players2026-09-16 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-17 22:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 13:00 — 9 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 19:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-01 01:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 4 players2026-10-03 16:00 — 12 players2026-10-05 00:00 — 18 players2026-10-06 08:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 15:00 — 17 players2026-10-08 23:00 — 18 players2026-10-10 06:00 — 9 players2026-10-11 14:00 — 11 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 15 players2026-10-14 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 21:00 — 13 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
804Feb 2023Aug 2026Feb 2023 — avg 80 · peak 145Apr 2023 — avg 16 · peak 43Jun 2023 — avg 5 · peak 15Aug 2023 — avg 5 · peak 26Oct 2023 — avg 6 · peak 15Dec 2023 — avg 29 · peak 89Feb 2024 — avg 11 · peak 33Apr 2024 — avg 15 · peak 51Jun 2024 — avg 7 · peak 21Aug 2024 — avg 5 · peak 14Oct 2024 — avg 4 · peak 14Dec 2024 — avg 11 · peak 30Feb 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Apr 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Jun 2025 — avg 4 · peak 19Aug 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Oct 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Dec 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Feb 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Apr 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13Jun 2026 — avg 6 · peak 16Aug 2026 — avg 13 · peak 37
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
93.3%
earned "Mother's Blessing"
29.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlySteam Trading CardsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing

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

Player tags

VRFPSRPGIndieActionPhysicsShooterViolentTacticalRealistic

Census log

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

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