XBLA exclusive Deadlight’s gameplay sees some daylight

Deadlight is a cinematic 2D action-platformer with action-based puzzles. Gamers play the role of Randall Wayne, survivor of an apocalyptic world set in an alternate 1980s. An era more games need to be set in, because nothing says fun like adding some Wang Chung to any game.

Tequila Works Deadlight screens.

Microsoft announces new exclusive XBLA title — Deadlight

In an apocalyptic world where existence is futile, a solitary man treks the American west coast. The year is 1986 and a mysterious disease has decimated mankind, transforming people into killer automatons. Survival is the measure of all in this original cinematic puzzle platformer. Deadlight is the frightening odyssey of an ordinary man fighting extinction like a flame in the desert. Hopeless and unable to escape the horrors of a dying world, Randall Wayne will reveal himself as a natural born survivor. Deadlight is to be released as an XBLA exclusive title in summer 2012.