The Light Brigade

The Light Brigade: Definitive Edition is a first-person roguelike VR shooter for PlayStation 5, developed and published by Funktronic Labs. Join humanity’s last line of defense in a world covered by eternal darkness, fighting through procedurally generated battlegrounds with realistic gunplay and powerful light magic. PlayStation VR2 is required for the PS5 version. Release Date: February 22, 2023.

Core Game Features:

• Roguelike VR Combat: Journey through procedurally generated battlefields where every run changes the layout, threats, discoveries, and tactical challenges.

• Physics-Based Gunplay: Aim, fire, and reload bolt-action rifles, machine guns, and pistols in immersive VR combat inspired by historical World War weaponry.

• Powerful Light Magic: Combine firearms with magical abilities, infuse bullets with light, and unleash spells such as fireballs against enemy hordes.

• Permadeath and Risk: If you fall in battle, retrieve your fallen soul to preserve your progress—or lose the run and begin again with a new challenge.

• Weapons and Attachments: Loot powerful upgrades including explosive charms, poison barrels, tactical scopes, silencers, and other equipment that can reshape your loadout.

• Classes and Progression: Cleanse the souls of the fallen, rise through the ranks, improve weapons and spells, and unlock new classes, loadouts, abilities, and play styles.

• Tarot Card Powers: Find magical tarot cards with unique powers, buffs, debuffs, and passive effects, then combine stronger versions to create devastating stacks.

• Infinite Runs: Adapt your position and strategy as soldiers, creatures, and bosses appear in ever-changing hostile environments.

• Immersive PlayStation VR2 Experience: Play while sitting, standing, or using roomscale VR, with tactile aiming, shooting, reloading, and optional headset and controller feedback.

Story and World:

The world remains in eternal darkness, and humanity’s last hope rests with The Light Brigade. Enlist in its ranks and travel through dangerous, procedurally generated battlegrounds to free the souls of the fallen. As you fight increasingly difficult soldiers, creatures, and bosses, the combination of realistic weapons and light magic gives every encounter a different tactical rhythm. Between runs, climb the Brigade’s ranks, improve your gear, unlock new classes, and investigate the mysteries behind the world’s downfall and the intentions of the Obsidian Forces.

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