Light No Fire – My Next Big Survival Sandbox (?)

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Aywren

I didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the Game Awards this year, other than to vote and be happy that Baldur’s Gate 3 won so many awards. However, I did take a glance at things that were announced. Unlike last year, there was one game that caught my eye.

Light No Fire is going to be a fantasy open-world survival sandbox game by Hello Games, the folks that brought us No Man’s Sky. Now, I’m not much of a sci-fi fan, but I’ve clocked in over 300 hours on this particular game. I preordered at launch, and like many, have waited as the game slowly flourished and met its promises through many, many free patches.

In fact, sometimes I wonder what keeps No Man’s Sky afloat because they’re always giving patches away for free. To know that they’re making a new world, this time in my wheelhouse of fantasy, is quite an excitement for me.

Add in there multiplayer building and ridable dragons… yep. You got me.

In a way, I feel like this might be the answer to the whole ARK situation in the long run. Syn and I have put a lot of hours into a heavily modded ARK game, but we fell out of it after a while due to the advanced game loop just being too tedious.

To fight the bosses in the game, you are supposed to raise an army of dinos. However, to do that, you have to breed them – which is fun until you realize to get the best stats for your dinos, you have to breed in a very, very specific way. I mean, it’s crazy what all you have to do to bump your stats up.

Not to mention, how many dinos you have to outright slaughter in order to cull for the proper breeding lines. I love to breed, but killing off baby dinos more often than not was just not my thing. You could never get attached to a dino in that game because if it was about progression towards endgame, the specifics just weren’t fun.

Anyhow. This isn’t a post about why Syn and I don’t really play ARK anymore, but more a hopeful post that Light No Fire will give us dragons and fun creatures to tame, and a lovely fantasy world to build in.

If what they did with No Man’s Sky is any sign of what we can look forward to here, I hope this will become my next big survival sandbox game.

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