Easily one of the most surprising announcements from this year's The Game Awards Light Not Firea brand new survival adventure game from No one's heaven developer Hello Games.
It takes place in a gigantic shared fantasy world, Light Not Fire will offer a truly open, planet-sized environment with a scale far greater than anything we've seen in a game before. In addition to showing off some of that world in the game's first trailer, The Game Awards host Geoff Keighley interviewed Hello Games founder Sean Murray live on stage.
Although it only lasted a few minutes, the interview shed some light on what players can expect from the upcoming title. “For the last five years we've been working on something new,” Murray explains, “something completely different, something that might be more ambitious.”
“For our new game we wanted to create an Earth,” he continued. “A planet as varied as a universe. Something bigger than the Earth. Something about real mountains, not video game mountains, but mountains miles high (and) bigger than Everest.”
“The first real open world. Something without boundaries and we are going to let everyone play in it together. It is a place where people can experience their adventures together.” You can watch the full interview from The Game Awards below.
These lofty ambitions seem very much in line with the kinds of things we've been hearing about No one's heaven before its release in 2018. Despite a lot of great promise, that game ended up being a bit of a disappointment, receiving very mixed reactions from fans and critics alike.
In the years since, however, Hello Games has worked tirelessly to bring the game up to its original expectations, with near-constant content updates and a host of free expansions. With this in mind, we are optimistic that lessons have been learned and that Hello Games can deliver something very special Light Not Fire.
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