A look into Daylight: A game built on the Unreal 4 engine

Zombie Studios, the original developer of the Spec Ops series, and Blacklight series, have released information on a new project they teased in December.

Player will be armed with only a cell phone

Daylight is the name of the game, and it is a horror game that is being built on the Unreal 4 engine. Apparently, you play the role of a woman who has just woken up in a dark building. Using her cell phone light, you will guide her through dark rooms, which are randomly generated, and search for clues in order to find out why she is where she is and what she is supposed to do.

The game is supposed to take only 25-30 minutes to complete, but the point of the game is to replay it several times because the experience changes with each play through. "You’re essentially a rat in a cage, but the cage is an asylum and it’s scary as hell," said Jared Garritzen, the creative director of Zomibie Studios, in an interview with IGN. "You need to find your way out, and each time you do it it’s completely different.”

The game will involve no combat, the player is only armed with a cell phone that offers various tools, including a compass. The phone also omits a UV light, which allows players to read secret messages on walls, and see their footprints so they can easily backtrack to a location they've been to.

Dat lighting

The enemies are called phantoms and there is no way to defeat them. Players are encouraged to run whenever they see these enemies.

There are items that can be used to scare off phantoms, however. There are emergency kits scattered across the asylum that contain flares and glow sticks. Flares omit a bright light that scares off the phantoms, while glow sticks omit a light similar to that of the cell phone, so players can see messages on walls and footprints after deploying them.

Daylight will be released in 2013 via Steam. The game will be $20 or less, according to IGN. For more details, go to IGN as they plan to release more information on the game this upcoming week.