Tag: The Town of Light
Review The Town of Light (PS4)
Old haunt
It is perfectly clear, right from the pre-game warning screen, that this is a game that won’t be pulling any punches. The Town of Light tells the tragic tale of a teenage girl, Renée, suffering mental illness inside the walls of an early twentieth century Italian asylum, and while the characters are fictional, everything else is based...
News Psychological Thriller The Town of Light Illuminates PS4 Next Month
Volterra terror
Macabre mental health adventure The Town of Light will shine on the PlayStation 4 from 6th June, developer LKA.it has revealed on the PlayStation Blog. The game – which sees you assume the role of Renèe, a former patient returning to the real-life Italian asylum of Volterra – aims to explore the taboos associated with the...
Hands On Wandering Through the Chilling Halls of The Town of Light
Stranger than fiction
Jumping into The Town of Light, you could be forgiven for thinking it's a fairly by-the-books psychological thriller. It's set in a disused asylum – all chipped paint and rusted doorways – and sees you meandering through its corridors in search of clues as to what happened to the protagonist Renèe, who was once an inmate...
News The Town of Light Promises a PS4 Experience Unlike Any Other
Inspired by true stories
Mental health care has improved dramatically over the past 50 or so years, but The Town of Light aims to explore a time when it was not so good. Set in the real-life Volterra Psychiatric Asylum in Tuscany, the game promises an exact visual depiction of the shuttered institution, which was closed by the Italian government in...
