The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition

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Release date

February 22, 2023

Publisher

Funktronic Labs

The world remains in eternal darkness and only you can bring the dawn. Enlist in the ranks of The Light Brigade, humanity’s last line of defense. Journey through procedurally-generated battlegrounds as many times as it takes to free the souls of the fallen in this challenging roguelike shooter.

✧PHYSICS-BASED GUNPLAY
Physics-based gunplay creates tense battles against increasingly difficult enemies. Survival depends on your steady hands and mastery over realistic rifles, SMGs, pistols, machine guns, and more.

✧HARDCORE ROGUELIKE
Roguelike gameplay features procedurally-generated battlegrounds, an array of gun attachments (such as tactical scopes, silencers and charms), magic spells, buffs, and permadeath.

{"height":286,"type":"image","width":1280} ✧POWERFUL LIGHT MAGIC
Light magic pairs beautifully with gunplay, offering new and tactical ways to defeat a wide range of increasingly difficult enemies.

✧MAGICAL TAROT CARDS
Loot tarot cards from enemies and treasure chests during runs to stack a variety of buffs/debuffs for devastating effects.

✧ASCEND THE RANKS
Ascend the ranks of The Light Brigade to improve your weapons, spells, character traits, gear, and abilities. Unlock new character classes and playstyles, making each journey unique.

✧UNCOVER THE MYSTERIES
Uncover what led to the world’s downfall as you fight to save it from the darkness.

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With this final "Definite Edition" update, we want to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has played and supported The Light Brigade.

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4.45

1,303 ratings

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Updates

Update 5.0 - The Definitive Edition

August 17, 2026

Fellow soldiers, it’s time for one last charge into battle! Today we have a massive update for The Light Brigade, the 5.0 - Definitive Edition update. We have a new biome, three entire new tarot card sets, a suite of new attachment crystals, and new a run customization system. NEW BIOME: Lebes - A…

Update 4.5 - Phantom of Elites (New enemies, LCK camera, optimizations, balances)

March 11, 2025

Hello soldiers, We have a new patch today with two main new features of Elite Enemies and the LCK Camera (LIV Creator Kit), big improvements to loading jitters, as well as some balance, tweaks, and optimizations. Elite Enemies Obisidian soldiers can now spawn with one of a variety of special…

Player reviews

Jason39371

February 21, 2025

5/5

Please add an multiplayer function

The game is great, mechanics are lovely, everything is perfect, but it would be so awesome if you could party up with other players and there could be this whole system where only one person can be one specific class, or it could just be an team of rifleman, or scouts, would really make the game more interesting, and there could be an feature where you could give your teammates equipment and weapons, ammo, ect, but you both have to be willing to give and accept trades so there can’t be any stealing, this includes anything you could find in the levels of the game, like if one person finds an item, it’s there item so the other players can’t use it unless that person lets them use it

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Juice5522

March 4, 2025

5/5

Great game.

The gun mechanics feel so good. This game is very addictive. I hate Rogue likes. But this game got me hooked. Shooting and reloading the rifle is so satisfying! I’ve been Holding off buying this game for a long time now. Didn’t think I would like it. So glad it got added to quest +. Highly recommend this game if you love shooters in vr!

29 found this helpful

Exxottiic

June 28, 2025

5/5

Underrated Gem If You Take Your Time

I've had this game for over two years now, and I still find myself coming back to it regularly. It scratches a very specific itch that no other game has managed to hit for me. I honestly don’t understand all the negative comments — maybe some players are just trying to rush through it. This game rewards patience and strategy. Once you learn how to play it properly, it becomes incredibly engaging and fun. Take your time. Fight enemies one at a time, tackle each level slowly, and you'll start to appreciate the depth. I especially love the risk-reward system — when you die, you lose everything, but the fact that you can still recover it adds real tension and satisfaction. Highly recommend if you enjoy methodical, immersive gameplay.

25 found this helpful

NineTails1221

March 3, 2025

5/5

More than meets the eye

May be clunky at first soon becomes Adept and skilled marksman. This game is a crawl into a sprint. The more you understand how that game functions and works the more prepared you feel and the farther you get, the bosses are a great change of pace and the grunts are nothing to laugh at. Every level you advance you pick up something new and exciting. I don’t see how you get bored with this game.

23 found this helpful

DesaCr8

February 23, 2025

3/5

Good game, with some issues

It feels great to play, and it's quite good for the most part. But it does suffer in two areas: 1. Variety - It feels like an early access game when it comes to the amount of content. It needs more enemies, weapons, classes, cards, zones and everything else 2. Meta progression - There just isn't enough to upgrade between runs, which coupled with the lack of variety and the fairly high difficulty, can turn into a slog The foundation is great but it just needs more of everything. And no, releasing DLCs to fix this issue is not okay. If you released an incomplete game anything added needs to be at no additional cost until there is enough content in the base game. They've been indeed releasing more content at no additional cost, but it's generally just one class and one zone, which doesn't really fix the core issues.

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