Hello everyone,

Deadlight is roughly two months away, and we are set to release information over the coming weeks to get you excited. Please register and submit your character history to secure a spot aboard the Redemption.

Today, we want to give you some information on the time-period of the game. While Deadlight is a modern game, for many reasons, it is not set in the year 2025. Instead, Deadlight takes place on July 25 and July 26 2000. That’s right. Russia has a new president. Y2K didn’t end the world. The world is cautiously optimistic about everything except for the state of air travel and the tech bubble bursting. However, at least until August, boats seem just fine!

This is meant to be a rough guideline, not a rigid historical timeline–Deadlight isn’t about the year 2000. It’s an exploration of maritime wreck and ruin. This is to offer all players some breathing space away from 2025 while still maintaining the feel of a modern game.

Two points to touch on!

Costuming: Please feel free to be experimental in your costuming. You’re either playing a supernaturalist or a criminal. You shouldn’t feel overly bound by a specific period and are welcome to be experimental.

Technology: Even though it’s slightly anachronistic, players are welcome to have current smartphones as in-game devices. (You may also have laptops etc.) You can assume you’re on the bleeding edge of technology.

Beyond that, please make sure you register if you’re intending to play! Register here by July 10 2025. Payment is due July 10 2025, and tickets are first come, first serve.

Curious what happened in 2000? Some major points in the year!

January 1: The world celebrates the turn of the millennium with major events in cities like Sydney and London. Despite widespread fears, the Y2K bug causes minimal disruptions due to extensive global remediation efforts.

January 4: Two trains collide in Asta, Norway, resulting in 19 fatalities.

January 10: America Online announces a $162 billion merger with Time Warner, marking the largest corporate merger at that time.

January 13: Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft, with Steve Ballmer taking over the role.

January 31: Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, killing all 88 people on board.

February 7: Yahoo! experiences a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, temporarily disabling its services.

March 4: Sony launches the PlayStation 2 in Japan, which becomes one of the best-selling video game consoles of all time.

March 10: The dot-com bubble begins to burst, leading to a significant downturn in technology stock markets.

March 26: Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia, succeeding Boris Yeltsin.

April 7: South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje is charged with match-fixing, leading to a major scandal in international cricket.

April 8: A V-22 Osprey aircraft crashes in Arizona during a training exercise, killing 19 U.S. Marines.

May 1: President Bill Clinton announces that the U.S. will stop degrading GPS signals, allowing civilians worldwide to access more accurate location data.

May 3: The sport of geocaching begins, combining GPS technology with outdoor treasure hunting.

May 11: India’s population officially reaches 1 billion, with the symbolic billionth baby born in Delhi; London’s Tate Modern art museum opens to the public, becoming a major cultural landmark.

May 13: A fireworks factory explosion in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 22 people and injures nearly 950, causing extensive damage.

June 7: A U.S. federal judge orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies due to antitrust violations, though the decision is later overturned on appeal.

June 26: President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair announce the completion of a “rough draft” of the human genome, a milestone in genetic research.

July 14: A powerful solar flare, known as the “Bastille Day event,” triggers geomagnetic storms on Earth, affecting satellite operations and power systems.

July 25: Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic jet, crashes shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 people on board and four on the ground.