Searching Light

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• Patch Notes·6 Aug 2026Official

  Searching Light — Update 1.2.0 🦋

  What's new⚙️ Settings now available from the pause menu — no need to go back to the main menu anymore🧭 Improved pathfinding — enemies and characters get stuck less often⚡ General performance improvements🗺️ Level tweaks — better spike placement, removed a few overkill bridges, some difficulty balancing, and adjustments to invisible bridges and world-switching, based on player feedback👻 The first enemy now has a chase animation when approaching the player💡 Fixed overly saturated lights that were making parts of the world hard to see🇪🇸 Fixed several Spanish translation inconsistencies🔤 Better text readability — improved contrast across dialogue⏩ Dialogue skip — click once to instantly show the full line, click again to move to the nextSmall changes, but they add up. Nono's journey should feel a little smoother from here.Don't be afraid, we are monsters too... — CloverTales
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• Announcements·29 Jun 2026Official

  Searching Light Goes Horizontal! 🦋 + 50% OFF

  Searching Light is now horizontal! 🎮 For a long time, Searching Light was played vertically — built with mobile in mind. This week we gave it a full overhaul: now you can experience Nono's journey in widescreen, the way it feels natural on PC. Before & AfterThe game used to be like this: 🦋After the new implementation: The difference speaks for itself. More room to breathe, more world around you, the same story underneath.What's newHorizontal (widescreen) mode — adapted for PC and large screens WASD support — move the way PC players expect, no fighting the controls Fixed: a crash that occurred on the credits screen after completing the true ending — now you can reach the real finale without interruptions 💜 50% OFF — Steam Summer SaleTo celebrate the update, Searching Light is 50% off during the Steam Summer Sale. If you've had it on your wishlist, this is a great moment to step into the journey. Coming soonMobile version — the vertical experience is coming to your pocketChinese translation - Simplified Chinese is on the way!Searching Light has always been about seeing the world from another perspective — and now, literally, you see it from a new angle.Don't be afraid, we are monsters too... — CloverTales
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• Announcements·11 Jun 2026Official

  Searching Light — Dev story post

  I have a birthmark on my wrist shaped like a clover. When I was born, the doctor said it would fade with time. It never did. It's still there. That's where the "Clover" in CloverTales comes from: a strange little mark I've carried my whole life that, against all odds, stayed. That's more or less the story of this game too. Before Searching LightSearching Light didn't even exist at first. I was making another game, Cloverstory: a fantasy-and-magic metroidvania, inspired by Final Fantasy and Castlevania. I was 15 and had no real idea how to program, so I was building the game and learning to code at the same time. The code was a beautiful, unmaintainable plate of spaghetti, but I poured hundreds of hours into it. So many that I kept a diary of all the progress: 30 full days of development. Then I moved to Colombia and ended up without a PC. So I did the only thing I could: I wrote everything down in a notebook. Story, mechanics, levels, lore, drawings. Everything I wanted to build once I had a computer again. I still have that notebook. It's falling apart, but it's here. The accident that changed everythingWhen I finally had a PC again and started studying programming in Medellín, I learned what I'd been missing: Java, algorithms, Python, math. Suddenly I could solve problems that used to be way over my head, and I started applying it in GameMaker. I also played a lot — but not just to play: I studied games, how they solved things, how they made every decision. My great teachers were Hyper Light Drifter, Celeste, Castlevania and, above all, Undertale. That one I loved. And one day I remembered a Nintendo DS game I played when I was very little. I don't even remember the name. A platformer with a green or blue character, where the top screen showed objects you couldn't see on the bottom one. That game was brutally hard for me (probably because my ADHD). But the idea stuck with me: two different perspectives of the same world. I started drawing something similar in the ...
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• Announcements·13 May 2026Official

  Thank you for 280 wishlists!

  Hello everyone 🦋I just wanted to sincerely thank all of you for the support Searching Light has received so far. Seeing the game reach 280 wishlists honestly means a lot to me.This project has been in development for years and was made almost entirely by myself, so every wishlist, comment, screenshot, message or gameplay genuinely motivates me to keep going.For those discovering the game recently:Searching Light is an atmospheric puzzle adventure where you explore a dark world and switch between two different versions of reality to solve puzzles and uncover hidden paths.Thank you again for giving this strange little world a chance ːsteamhappyː
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• Announcements·11 May 2026Official

  Searching Light is Out Now

  Searching Light is Out NowAfter years of development, Searching Light is finally available on Steam.Explore a mysterious world filled with darkness, memories, strange creatures, and hidden truths. Solve puzzles, discover secrets, and follow the light through an emotional journey.Thank you to everyone who supported the game during development. This release means everything to me.See you in the darkness.
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