Actual Sunlight
A text-driven adventure about loneliness and dissatisfaction with working life
WZOGI · Released Apr 3, 2014
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 595
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 31, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 7 years ago
- May 13, 2019
Metacritic: 77/100 (critic reviews)
What is Actual Sunlight?
Actual Sunlight is a single-player narrative adventure set in Toronto, Canada, following Evan Winter, a young professional living with severe depression. You read his observations on daily life, accompanied by pixel and CG artwork depicting the city's streets and offices.
For you if...
- +you prefer short games over lengthy campaigns
- +you appreciate social commentary about everyday life
Not for you if...
- −you want choices that change the story's outcome
- −you want to avoid explicit language and suicidal themes
What players say
74% of 595 reviews are positive
Players praise the candid writing and relatable portrayal of depression. Others criticize the story's unrelenting hopelessness and say it provides little insight into its subject.
Screenshots and trailer
Actual Sunlight system requirements
Minimum: 1024x768 High Color +, 0.5 GB RAM, 0.1 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Actual Sunlight?
The published requirements do not name a graphics card we can compare.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7
- Processor
- Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
- Graphics
- 1024x768 High Color +
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0
Does Actual Sunlight have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Actual Sunlight run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 1
- Steam features
- Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese.
Does Actual Sunlight use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
