Light the Way
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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“Welcome to Lion's Pride. You've come here to apply as one of our servers, is that correct?"...
It's your first day as a server at the cabaret, and you've already been asked out by five charming young men!! Suave, energetic, affectionate, gentle, or carefree… which do you prefer?
Light the Way is a fanmade visual novel featuring the five members of Luxiem, where your choices could make or break your relationship with your favourite Luxiem boy.
And trust me, you wouldn't like to go down the wrong path~
So, choose wisely! Who will be the one by your side to light your way as you explore a brand new chapter in life?
If you'd like to share feedback and suggestions about the game, we have a quick survey open to all players! We'd appreciate hearing your thoughts!
To report any bugs, typos and other issues, please use the following form to inform us. Thank you! Light the Way Issue Reporting Form
Game Features
Gameplay time - 26.5 hours
CG - 25
Original Songs/BGM - 21
Sprites - 646
BG - 52
Word Count - 148K~
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Disclaimer
The content presented in this fangame is intended for persons over the age of 13. It includes mild language, alcohol consumption, and potentially triggering content. More specifically, the bad ending for some routes contain arson, non-graphic depictions of violence, the use of firearms, and character death.
Light the Way is made in accordance with the ‘Guidelines for Secondary Creations’ of ANYCOLOR Inc. The characters of Luxiem, their alters, Oni Giri, and other talents or mascots portrayed in the game are copyrighted under ANYCOLOR Inc. Light the Way’s scenarios, locations, dialogues, and actions are completely fictional and do not represent the personalities of ANYCOLOR Inc. livers. Simporiem Studios is NOT affiliated with ANYCOLOR Inc. or any of its staff including the livers involved.
All assets, including music and artworks from this game must not be reuploaded or falsely claimed as one's own work. The full credits are featured on our game profile page and in the About Page found within our game!
Streaming Guidelines
Light the Way can be streamed as long as it's not claimed as one's own creation! The game is copyright free. Monetization of gameplay must adhere to ANYCOLOR's 'Guidelines for Secondary Creations'.
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- Light The Way Full Game ReleaseMay 01, 2023
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Can someone help like I've been stuck trying to get shu bg at 3 page middle top idk where am i gonna get that scene like i have the good bad roomie but how 😭 am i gonna get the top middle bg at page 3 shu
Urghhh the programmer is soooo admirable to release this game
arghhh
I WILL LOVE LUXIEM FOREVER
I love this game so much and I'm collecting all achievements, and wondering how much hidden dialogues I haven't see even beyond the achievements mentioning. I'm not a english speaker so I need to focus more when I reading but it's sooooo much fun and I'm really enjoy that. The producers have done so amazing jobs, and I really want make translation for the game but I only made subtitles before so don't know how it works in game, sadge. Anyways I love this game and da bois so much❤️🧡💛💙💜(this also is my route sequence i think it works pretty well!)
ate so hard but the Luca ending destroyed me lol
YO HOW DID YALL GET TO DOWNLOAD IT I DID BUT THE FILES ARE SO CONFUSING WHAT DO I TYPE
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I need a little help with Ikes route. I have replayed his and only his route 7 times I believe and there is one, ONE cg I haven't got and have been trying to find. I have three from his good ending and one from his bad ending (with Eki), what do I do to get the one gc I need left?? (I hope I make sense)
Does anyone know how to get shu's good ending? I keep getting the roomie ending (ive gotten it every replay i do)
Pick all nice option 24/7 ,10/10 all nice. I get that gd ending quick
i wanna play thiss game so bad but it won't run in my pc😭
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maaaan I've been trying to get Shu's roomie ending but every time it's sadness for me I dont know what I'm doing wrong (┬┬﹏┬┬)
Be kind to Shubert! This is how the game works, hope it helps!!!
Awwwww mysta's graduating ; - ;
gonna miss him ; - ;
We'll all miss him 😢
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This VN was an absolute gem!! I had an amazing time streaming it and my viewers absolutely loved it too! Thank you for creating such an amazing game celebrating some of the best VTubers in the world!
I'm in love with this game! There is two achievement that I'm not sure how to get.
- Maybe seeing something bad too often is not a great idea.
- All those special moments, whether good or bad, on camera. (I've screenshotted plenty of times throughout the game but it's not working.)
If anyone knows, much appreciated <33 Great game again! Thanks for this :)
Okay I got the second one, had nothing to do with screenshotting lmao. Still missing the first.
Does anyone know how to get the “Court someone before courting the monkey man” achievement? Does it have something to do with voxs route,,, i need help
I think it means, complete someone else's route before Vox's lmao
I have all achievements except "See it all". I know to get that you have to see all endings including roomies and I have the problem with roomie ones. I already got roomie ending with Mysta and Shu's route... So anybody know how to get the rest???
You forgot the roomie ending at Ike's route!!
Do you know how to get it? 👀
finished the game and i feel so bad and a terrible person T^T. not good with my heart but i love the entire plot and story SM.
can we restart the game entirely? cus i finished the full game all endings and i want to do the entire thing again.
Im so close I have 29/30 waaa
How do you get the Mysta roomie ending? I tried but I keep getting bad ending..
do 3 bad choices and all good ones after that
just finished everything within the game! All 30 achievements unlocked! Gosh this made me want to cry so much, but it was so amazing!
Props to everyone who helped on this! I'm in awe at all the little details I saw, and the art I ADORED. THE STORY WAS AMAZING!!!
I love this so much and am so happy with what it turned out being. Now I'm gonna go cry because Shu and Ike are my oshis and they (in my opinion) have the saddest ends 😢
WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS!! ♡♡♡
if you don’t mind, how do I meet alban?
to meet Alban, you have to go through Mystas story!
I know that for sure but I’m don’t know how to get the achievement. Just need a small hint yk
do you get to do the game from scratch? cus it gets kinda boring after you finshish it.
It was fun, thanks for the game!
Is there any walkthrough? Because as much as I love the game, I suck at getting the good endings :(
Idk if there is a walkthrough, but to get good endings, you need to choose all good choices in any route. We can know that we chose a good choice if you hear any Luxiem bois' sound and a diamond appearing briefly at the top right side of the game screen. Hope this helps!
Y'all i need help with getting the roommate ending in Shu route, i tried everything but couldn't get it :'(
Hey there! You need to choose 4 bad choices and the rest must be good choices in order to get a roommate ending in any route.
My good tip for you is to choose bad choices in the beginning first before choosing the good choices. You can do it!
If you're still having a hard time getting it, just let me know and I'll play again to give specific choices. Sorry in advance if I might reply late.
I did it, thank youu!!
Yay! Great job!!
I played this game realistically, choosing options as I would IRL. Except I forgot that the back button exsists and that if a prompt looks like it will upset the character, IT WILL UPSET THE CHARACTER. Thus, I got Ike's bad ending on the first run through of the game!
It was an amazing game and I will definitely be running through everything again, whenever I feel down. Thank you so much for making this!
Welp i just finished the whole game and got all the achievements. I really loved the game.
How do you get the achievements with going against the program, not playing nice with the kindred, and seeing something bad too often? They're the last achievements I need and I can't seem to get them 😅
So you just do the bad route with Vox and anything that makes it so that your bad with the kindred. With going against the program I'm pretty sure that when you have the phone up and you are texting one of them that you click on the dark mode in the corner over and over until you can't anymore. I don't remember how I got the "seeing something bad too often" one I just replayed one of the bad ending over and over again. Hope this can help. I'm typing this on phone so I'm not on my computer because if I was I would give you a more detailed explanation on how to get them.
So far, I’ve done all the good and bad endings except for Shu, but I’m trying to get all the achievements! 18/30 so far! But I’m curious, how do you get the “Gottem” achievement- Whose route is that on?
It's on Shu's route. You'll know it once you see the choices. Lol
One of the funniest achievements we can get. Also, good luck on getting all achievements!
Im having a little trouble on trying to get the achievements for "commit to being bad before going for something good with ike" and also the same one for shu. could i get some help on how to get those ones?
In order to get those, you have to get their bad ends the first time you play their route. You can do a good end run after, but yeah, do the bad ends for Shu and Ike first.
could someone tell me how to get the "See it all." achievement?
ive managed to get everything but that
You have to complete the full game, see every ending, go through everything...
I mean like every single detail, revisit all the routes if theres anything you might've missed :D
oh gosh thats a lot of work but im gonna try to find the dialouge that i probably missed
thank you!!
Mhm of course! If theres still a problem i can try to find out how to obtain the achievement again
For the "See it All" achievement - get all good endings, roomie endings and bad endings in every route. No need to complete all achievements or read every unread dialogues in order to get this achievement.
does anyone know how to get alban's achievements?
The "catch the phantom thief during a bad time" and "Lose to the phantom thief in your little bet"
I just started Mysta's Good route, i already completed the bad one and i didn't get these achievements along the way
and another question does anyone know how to get the "Try going against the program to the point the option is gone"
I feel like i can get it during Mysta's Bad route but im not positive
I got the phantom ones [through mysta's bad route]
and the going against the program! [through shu's route, good or bad]
also 20/30 achievements!
Is there any other way to get certain achievements without going through Ike's route just yet? [im waiting on doing him with a friend]
1. "Gotta Court 'em all"
2. "Commit grave sings to each of them"
3. "All those special moments whether good or bad, on camera"
4. "see it all"
5 . "Maybe seeing something bad too often is not a great idea"
6. "It's a beautiful day outside. See all the sins you can commit"
I may be late in answering but all remaining achievements that you've mentioned there require going through Ike's route.
I hope that you've achieved them with your friend! Let me know too if there are still achievements that you have trouble completing.
I did finish them! At first i thought i was doing something wrong but it just seems that I had to fully complete the game :')
Nice! Congrats on finishing!
I also thought the same when I couldn't get all the achievements back then, no matter how many times I played each route but I luckily found help here. :'D
It's a fun game and so far i've gotten 5/30 achivements and i've only done Luca and Shu, I don't think my heart can handle this 😭
Also does anyone know how long it'll take to get every single achievement?
someone please help i have tried so many times but i cant get the dont play nice with kindred achievement.
Hello there! I already posted how to get that achievement in the older threads but I'm just gonna copy-paste it here so you don't need to backread.
For "Don't Play Nice with the Kindred" achievement - choose all bad choices in Vox's route. If you need specific choices, pick these when meeting the kindred for the 1st time:
- Uhm... is that how you speak to your boss?
- No thanks
- Reject
- We all care about you
- (Go back to eat)
- (Confront him)
- (Go inside)
- I'd rather be alone
- (Ask)
- Nothing happened
Hope this helps!
Hihi i have a question! Will this be getting an android release? I wanna play it but it isnt compatible with any of my devices
Hey just to let you know about it, they said they were having plans to release on mobile not specific about it yet though. If you want to know the context you can check the light the ways pogcast if you want
thank you so much!!
i just finished my first play through and got shu's good ending :DD i just wanted to say that i love the game sm already and i cant wait to see all the other fun endings whether good or bad <333 also btw, the art is absolutely delicious. i may have stared at some CGs for more than a few seconds
hii i have a question!! (shu bad route spoiler alert)
so when you go to shu's house in the bad route and yoi see the cg for the first time, he says something like "i've been waiting for you for so long" and then the mc says that theyre not who he wanted to see. my question is,, who was it that shu was waiting for?? /gen
Omg i forgot about this one!! I've been wondering about this too! Maybe he's been waiting for Ike/Eki or maybe the MC in the good ending??
well maybe,, i dont think its eki since i dont remember shu knowing eki. the mc makes the most sense but theres also a possibility that he says that even if you go through the bad ending first, in which case it woudlnt make sense. so either its ike or someone else,, actually, now that i think about it, it might have been akarino or another of shu's alters (not sure how to call them properly) but probably akarino since they're the nicest of the three.
Oh, yeah.. but did you notice in the CG that shu and hikarino are in the same body?? You'll notice hikarino's color palette at the left part of shu in that CG, so i strongly assume that hikarino is the one controlling most of shu's actions in his bad route and why i think he might be waiting for eki, too, since both of their kind counterparts experienced hell from bad MC (if we already played both of their bad endings). As for shu's other alters, i thought they are always together with him? But there's a possibility that they might have left shu for the time being because hikarino wanted to get rid of bad MC.
For now, our best guess is either ike or shu's other alters.
woah i didnt notice that, thats such a good detail!! imma have to check it when im gonna play the game again ^^ and with your explanation rhat would make sense!! would be really interested to know the true answer from the devs hehe
Just passing by to see if the devs posted an answer bcuz i'm still curious lol
Glad that i mentioned the detail to you so we could just keep digging deeper till we find a good guess! ^^
But it is still vague to me no matter how many times i try to remember that scene
Hi there! I've played through most of the game already but I'm kinda scared to play through Shu's bad ending cuz idk if my heart can take it ;-; If you've played it, could someone rate how painful it is on a scale of 1-10 pls.
~ Person who wants the achievements but not the pain
hellor, as a major shubert enthusiast i played his good route first, then the roomie route and then the bad ending and well... it was painful. on a scale of 1-10 id say like 10... billion. im so glad you were able to play all the other endings before shu's cause... dayum my guy. it was pain and nothing but pain and did i mention it was painful? it makes me so sad bc it haunts me hdjsns and and i cant help but think of the poor guy qnd just. be glad that you saved it for last, you saved yourself from a lot more pain nfksndksk
Yikes just as I feared ;-; Welp time for me to decide which one is more worth it, getting the achievements or not seeing Shu's heartbreak. Thank you for your response!
of course!! let me know how it goes if you do play it but if i had to choose now, id probably chose not to play it bc thag shit BROKE ME
Ok so I played through it 6 TIMES to get the achievement "hurt shu the same number of times as the number of luxiem boys" and I felt so bad. That CG absolutely broke my heart I did not expect that at all. However I'm still missing the achievement "maybe seeing something bad too often is not a great idea". How do I get that?
Omg you did go through the pain... i salute to your braveness.
But yeah, i agree with abagofswag that if we had to choose again, i don't want to play that heartbreaking ending again.. that CG still haunts me to this day... T_T
Oh, to get the achievement for "maybe seeing something bad too often is not a great idea," you need to go through ike's bad ending 5 times (just like shu's). Another painful bad ending imo.
For me, 10 tbh. Shu is a big sweetheart in his route, so when I chose all the bad choices just to complete the achievements, I felt that I'm the worst person in the world.
If you really don't want the pain and don't mind skipping the heartbreaking story, you can change the setting of skip by checking the unread text, so you can just skip it. But you will still see his hurt, disappointed and angry expressions, and the most heartbreaking CG of all imo.
the CG is increadibly heartbreaking indeed, still sobbing and probably traumatized from it. shu didnt deserve this fr
Ikr? I'm also still traumatized and can't help but remember the pain again... T_T
I'm getting sadge just thinking about the kind of heartbreak Shu's route is gonna be considering the other boys' ones was bad enough. If theres anyone I don't wanna see MC being a piece of crap to it's Shu.