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The3rd.One Games · Published by The3rd.One Group
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
The Lightless World is a PC reverse horror action roguelike game set in a cosmic horror universe where players control demonic god protagonists. Your goal is to survive the endless onslaught of enemies and uncover the secrets of the world.
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Embark on a perilous journey as you command demonic gods in The Lightless World, an action-packed indie RPG where survival and exploration intertwine. Navigate through a world of cosmic horror, uncovering secrets while fending off relentless enemies.
About this game
The Lightless World is a PC reverse horror action roguelike game set in a cosmic horror universe where players control demonic god protagonists. Your goal is to survive the endless onslaught of enemies and uncover the secrets of the world.
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Play as the "bad guy" for a change!
Experience the horrors alone or join forces with a friend for cooperative mayhem.
Diverse Character Selection!
Unlock new abilities and customize your playstyle through a deep talent tree system.
Face off against challenging enemies and bosses, requiring strategic gameplay and skill.
In The Lightless World, players level up by eliminating enemies and collecting their souls. As they ascend to higher levels, they unlock new abilities and skills, enhancing their power and progression through the game.
Choose Your Path: Adapt your playstyle with a variety of skills.
Reroll Up to 10 Times: Increase your chances of finding legendary abilities.
Master the Talent Tree: Become a true force to be reckoned with.
Confront the ultimate challenge and defeat the commander!
Features
Reverse Horror: In this game you take the role of the "bad" guys, playing as one of the archdemons.
Diverse Character Progression: As you delve deeper into the game, you'll collect powerful items, discover new abilities, and encounter a variety of unique characters. Customize your hero's build and playstyle, adapting to the challenges of each run.
Challenging Enemies and Bosses: Face off against a wide array of menacing foes, from swarms of lesser humans to formidable angelic bosses. Strategic combat and effective use of your character's abilities are essential for success.
Random Events and Challenges: Throughout the map, players encounter random events, challenges, and hidden secrets. These can range from temporal anomalies altering gameplay mechanics to mysterious portals offering valuable rewards or increased difficulty.
Artistic Visuals and Dynamic Soundtrack: Immerse yourself in a visually stunning, ever-shifting environment filled with atmospheric lighting and intricate details. The dynamic soundtrack adapts to the intensity of the gameplay, heightening the sense of tension and excitement.
Character Progression: As players delve deeper into the game, they collect resources, discover powerful artifacts and unlock new abilities!
Skill Tree: In The Lightless World, players embark on a journey of power by navigating a intricate talent tree. This branching system, offers players the opportunity to customize and specialize their character's abilities, shaping their unique playstyle.
As players gain experience points and level up, they earn skill points that can be invested in the talent tree. Unlocking a specific talent often requires points to be allocated in prerequisite skills in that path, promoting a sense of progression and specialization. The choices players make in the talent tree directly influences their character strengths, weaknesses and playstyle.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5 4400 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB / AMD RX 480 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Minimum Requirements may cause frame drops.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows 11
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X / Intel Core i7-7600K
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1660 Super 6GB / Amd RX 590 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended, The game has a variety of visual effects that may cause seizures please stop playing if such symptoms occur.
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
The Lightless World - Demo Update v0.6.9
Bug Fixes Fixed the endless loading bug for client players when returning to a multiplayer lobby. Fixed a bug with Dark Shackles that caused the Ability to not do any damage. Fixed Dark Shackles "Rooting Ground" Augment to display as a DPS skill in their tooltip. Fixed a bug with Void Beam that was attaching the Beam to the wrong Character socket, causing it to move alongside the Character's hand. Fixed "Buff Cooldown" talent node. Fixed "Reflect Leech" talent node. It now grants 100/150/200% of Damage Leeched as Life to be reflected to nearby enemies. Abilities Dark Shackles: Added "DOT" tag to Dark Shackles Augment that creates "Rooting Ground" on impact. User Interface Revamped the Pause screen.Read full article on Community Announcements (ZhorvuS)Patch NotesOfficial
The Lightless World - Demo Update v0.6.8
Level Progression - New! Added the Soul Level Reward system. By gaining more Soul Levels you unlock permanent enhancements to your Character that will help you alongside Ability and Augment upgrades, as well as unlocking new Talents as you progress your Character. Gameplay Added a feature to collect souls between starting and final location during a Blink.Rebalanced experience required for Character Soul level, old saves will keep their old level. Events Altar of Sacrifice: Changed the minimum Soul Explosion multiplier from 0.75 to 1.5. Bug fixes Deployed a fix for when Client is in predictive mode (during high latency), which fixes the slow proc after a Blink granted by Talents, to now cast at the predicted location of the player before blinking.Deployed a possible fix for Health bar (tooltip) desyncing with Health bar (Main UI) after collecting a Health upgrade.Fixed a bug that could cause the camera POV to be stuck on an ally after being revived while in death animation.Deployed a number of fixes to prevent game ending from causing soft locks.Fixed an issue with Damaging Effects (Burn, Blight, Dark Shackles etc.) that could not apply Critical Damage even though it was stated. Abilities Void Beam: Increased base DPS to 60 from 50.Enabled Damage Leeched as Health.Enabled Multicast.Removed hidden "Hit" tag. Certain on Hit effects that could apply previously from Void Beam can no longer be procced. This change is inherited to all Abilities that have the "Dot" tag, unless specified in their tooltip that they can Hit. Additionally, all non-"Dot" Abilities are now considered as Hits, unless specified in their tooltip. Veil of Blight: Enabled Damage Leeched as Health. Rupture: Increased base AOE to 400 from 350. Whirlwind: Decreased base AOE to 600 from 650. Enemy Balance and Fixes Angelic Caster: Holy Siphon is a 20 second cooldown ability, that affects a random alive player and activates after 2 seconds, dealing 40% of current 8/Health as damage that can not be mitigat...Read full article on Community Announcements (ZhorvuS)Press Coverage
Play as the bad guys in upcoming demonic ARPG The Lightless World
Demons are cool. That's just an inescapable reality that many games suffer with. You'll be punching, kicking, slicing, and stabbing demons and wondering why you're stuck with the nice guys who frankly tend to lack style. The side of brimstone and blood is definitely the winning one, which is why it's great to see the formula of games like Diablo turned on its head in upcoming ARPG The Lightless World. Read the rest of the story...Read full article on PCGamesN
