# Search Light > Light a lantern in a darkened city — a wordless, handcrafted platform adventure. Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.hatsoft.searchlight](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.hatsoft.searchlight) ## Overview - **ID:** `com.hatsoft.searchlight` - **Platform:** Android - **Type:** Android app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Hatsoft - **Category:** GAME\_ADVENTURE - **Downloads:** 7 - **Version:** 1.1 - **Last updated:** 2026-08-19 - **First published:** 2026-08-07 - **Publisher country:** TR - **Size:** 3.04 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-14 - **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hatsoft.searchlight) - **Website:** [https://searchlight.hatsoft.com.tr/](https://searchlight.hatsoft.com.tr/) - **Privacy policy:** [https://searchlight.hatsoft.com.tr/privacy](https://searchlight.hatsoft.com.tr/privacy) ## Description Every light in the city has gone out. You are a child with a small lantern, walking through the dark.

SEARCH LIGHT is a wordless, handcrafted 2D platform adventure. You run, jump, burst your light and rekindle the people who froze in the darkness. Silhouette art, a minimalist interface, a calm pace — less an arcade game, more a walk through the night.

300 handcrafted levels, eighty districts, three acts. Nothing is procedurally generated; every level was built by hand, and every district has its own rule: rising water, bridges locked to a metronome, streets that turn upside down, pitch-black tunnels where you navigate by sound, shadow twins that mimic you, convoys you escort, and an ember carried in your palm that fades as you walk. Light is not a single button here: you burst it, dim it to hide from searchlights, throw it ahead to light your path, swing from it like a hook.

Along the way, puzzle gates ask for understanding rather than reflexes: knot circuits, mirror beams, bell echoes, upside-down parity. In the third act, every tenth level is a puzzle room.

You are following the trail your mother left behind. Every memory fragment you collect reveals a line of her story — and in the quiet flashback scenes, where nothing can hurt you, you play her yourself.

Endless Night is a second mode, separate from the story: one daily seed, the same for the whole world. The main menu announces tonight's watch and its night mode — Storm, Low Lantern, Ice Night, or Ash Night, where you run with an ember in your palm. Daily rankings, ghost runs drifting beside you, and a streak that counts your consecutive nights. Story levels also hold bronze, silver and gold time medals; your best time is saved.

Accessibility lives in the settings, all of it free: gentle mode (chases slow down, extra checkpoints appear), three-step screen shake (can be turned fully off), high contrast, left-handed mode, adjustable button size, one-touch controls. The game is fully playable in silence — there is no spoken dialogue to miss.

Free, with no ads; this version contains no in-app purchases at all, and nothing is locked. No internet needed — the story plays fully offline, and the daily leaderboard asks for a nickname, never an account.

SEARCH LIGHT is an indie game from a one-person studio. ## Rankings - #2,875,994 — Overall ## Permissions and access ### Permissions - `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE` - `android.permission.INTERNET` - `android.permission.VIBRATE` - `com.android.vending.BILLING` - `com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE` - `com.hatsoft.searchlight.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION` ## Similar extensions and apps - [Light & Shadow Dark Platformer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.kaiogames.ignisnoxlightadventureplatformer) — 189 users - [Lumen - Carry The Light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.pixelpioneer.lumen) — 3 users - [Shadow Light Puzzle](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.andreosapps.videoplayer.cyberflix) — 18,974 users, 2.20 / 5 - [Hopeless light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.Maxybom.hopelesslight) — 61 users - [Light Seeker - Dungeon Escape](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ar.com.lightseeker) — 64 users - [Light Keeper](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.theta.iota.lightkeeper) — 1 users - [Tiny Await](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.withtheapp.await) — 1 users - [Ghost Light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.folokkrw.kolrkt) — 3 users - [Out of Light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/al.max.outoflight) — 1 users - [Box: Light](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.DefaultCompany.BoxLight) — 43 users - [LightGame](https://chrome-stats.com/d/wpg.wolfpitgames.lightgame) — 27 users - [Lamplighter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.ArcanumGames.Lamplighter) — 353 users --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.hatsoft.searchlight)