Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight

Steam Deck · unrated

Burning Daylight Team · Free to Play · Apr 19, 2019

Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.

It's free to play.

88%
Very Positive
3k player reviews
Medium confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 137 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 93 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Bugs: 16 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 13 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 3k player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise30% are divided20% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
Everything that is in the game is great, atmosphere, story, voice acting.
137 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
However, the idea behind the lore, the dynamic lighting, the atmosphere, the misery, the level construction... everything here is completely golden and is worthy of a full-length paid-for successor; it all makes overlooking the flaws extremely easy.
93 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
Gameplay-wise the game is just OKAY, with nice cyberpunk visuals, great music/voices and the AR completly changing the way we see the world, reminding me of drugs in "We happy few".
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
From there I selected the latest unlocked chapter, realized I hadn't gotten to that point yet (it unlocked prematurely), exited to the title screen again, started the chapter before that, realized some of the game sounds weren't playing (iirc music and footsteps were but certain sound cues and effects weren't), relaunched the game entirely, selected the correct chapter and finally I could continue.
22 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
Like many other people have said about Burning Daylight, there's hardly any reason that this game should be free other than its short duration and poor optimization.
8 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters137 reviews
Graphics93 reviews
Gameplay35 reviews
Audio22 reviews
Optimization8 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Performance14 reviews
71%
Interface11 reviews
73%
Controls8 reviews
63%
Players complain% still recommend
Bugs16 reviews
56%
Crashes13 reviews
54%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

The data behind the verdict

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Player review score
88%
Very Positive
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