007 First Light
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About this game
MI6 doesn’t recruit a tuxedoed legend — it recruits a young James Bond who is still earning his number. 007 First Light tells a standalone origin story of the agent. Bond goes through training, clashes with his mentors, takes on his first field assignments, and gradually picks up the trail of a threat tied to a former Agent 009. The campaign plays out as a third-person cinematic action-adventure, where spy work is built out of conversations, alternate routes, gadgets, holding your nerve in closed rooms, and the ability to switch plans on the fly when your cover slips.
The story takes the player around the world: from Iceland and the Carpathian Mountains to London’s Kensington, the Grand Carpathian hotel, and the Aleph black market. Moneypenny, instructor John Greenway, Dr Selina Tan, and Baum — one of Bond’s adversaries — all step into the frame. For anyone planning to download 007 First Light, expect not a Hitman reskin with a different lead, but a more cinematic stealth-action about a young agent who is still learning to talk, gadget, strike, or improvise his way out of any situation.
- Release date
- May 27, 2026 (May 26 in Early Access)
- Developer / Publisher
- IO Interactive A/S
- Platform
- PC (Windows)
- Multiplayer
- not available (single-player)
- Edition
- Deluxe Edition
- Version
- 1.1.0 (July 24, 2026)
- Languages
- English, Spanish (Spain / Latin America), Italian, Chinese (Traditional / Simplified), Korean
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Language support Language Interface / Subtitles Audio English Spanish (Spain / Latin America) Italian Chinese (Traditional / Simplified) Korean German Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Turkish French Japanese
- Young Bond on the road to 007 — the hero hasn’t yet become the flawless agent from the films. He acts bolder, sharper, and often leans on improvisation, which is why clashes with his stricter mentors feel like part of the plot, not background noise.
- Stealth, bluff, and open combat — many objectives can be solved quietly: eavesdrop on guards, pull people aside, pick up the right items, and slip through restricted zones in disguise. If the plan falls apart, the game shifts into close-quarters brawls and snap firefights.
- Q Branch gadgets — the Q-Lens helps locate key objects and hackable devices, the Q-Watch triggers special interactions, and the Laser Strap opens new paths or stuns enemies. The Dart Phone, Smoke Pod, and Flash Mine add more options for silent play and crowd control.
- Bond’s instinct and precise takedowns — the instinct system helps distract an opponent, slip out of a suspicious situation, or slow a moment down for a pinpoint action. In a fight, Bond can use the environment, close the gap quickly, and even throw his gun when the magazine runs dry.
- Missions across the globe — the game cycles between closed high-society events, mountain routes, dangerous markets, and secret MI6 sites. That rhythm suits Bond: one scene asks you to stay cool at the bar, the next turns into a chase or a forced entry.
- Replayability — once the training stages are cleared, a mode opens up with challenges, modifiers, agent points, and leaderboards. It’s a clean way to revisit missions, try a different route, and unlock cosmetics for weapons and gadgets.
Trailer:
007 First Light works best when it casts the player not as a shooter on a corridor mission, but as an agent who is constantly reading the room. The Bond adventure stays accessible to a broad audience, but it never collapses into a string of cutscenes the player just watches.
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9500 / AMD Ryzen 5 3500
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 / AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8 GB)
- Disk space: 80 GB (SSD required)
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core i5-13500 / AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- RAM: 16 GB
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (8 GB)
- Disk space: 80 GB (SSD required)
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Reviews
Tested on Steam Deck OLED.
The short version: lock it to 30fps, drop settings to low/medium, and this thing runs great. Stable frame times, no crashes, no weird Proton issues. Just works.
Battery came in at 2h45m in my testing which honestly surprised me – for a day-one AAA this size I was expecting worse. And it runs fully offline, which matters a lot for a handheld.
The game itself is really impressive. As a Bond fan I wasn’t sure what to expect from a new studio taking on the license, but First Light delivers. The writing, the setting, the feel of it, I think it all comes together rather nicely. Playing it on Deck in handheld mode actually feels like a good way to experience it and I don’t think its a compromise.
If you’re a Steam Deck owner sitting on the fence, don’t wait. This is one of the better AAA releases we’ve had on this hardware in a while and this game proves the Steam Deck can still punch hard!
Full performance breakdown video: https://youtu.be/bDgnjE0nncg
I’m so torn here, but it IS a great game.
I really do like this game and I recommend it for any fans of James Bond.
The game looks great, runs great, sounds amazing at times. The action is well done, the controls feel responsive and the story itself is interesting enough so far.
I think my expectations were too high for the gameplay though: I’m a huge fan of IOI’s most recent hitman trilogy, with the insane openness to levels and sheer amount of player agency.
That is heavily stripped down here at times; this game is very linear because they are trying to tell a story. I completely understand that, but it’s not always for the best.
In general the game alternates between espionage and action. The first part of a mission will be exploring, looking for evidence or a specific person, etc. The second part is when 007 action moments need to occur.
Way too cinematic for my taste. I was expecting something closer to Metal Gear Solid meets Splinter Cell, but it’s really nothing like either of them. I’m not sure why I had that expectation, lol. (Maybe because I love those games.)
The gameplay is also far too easy, even on the hardest difficulty.
It’s also important to mention that, at least in my opinion, this is the least charismatic James Bond of all time. I don’t really like Bond’s appearance here either.
The story is easily the game’s strongest aspect. It’s a decent spy thriller, but there’s nothing particularly innovative or original about it.
I usually can’t stand overly cinematic games, or games like this in general. As I mentioned before, I’d question whether this is really a spy/stealth game when almost every situation is solved through action, and the “bluff” option is downright ridiculous.
I’m writing this review while sipping a Martini cocktail, shaken, not stirred. 007 First Light is a very good action game. A mix between Hitman, Uncharted, and some Watch Dogs elements. The game is built like a Bond movie from A to Z, with a blend of cinematics and gameplay scenes that mix together very well. The game is gorgeous and the casting and voice acting are top-notch.
Unfortunately, since there is a storyline to follow, the game takes you right where it wants you to go, meaning you have much less freedom of action than in a Hitman game. The options for completing a mission in different ways are very limited in levels that look open, just like Hitman. But if you take away the Hitman connection, it’s a fantastic popcorn game. The few gunfights, stealth sequences, and melee combat scenes are highly enjoyable. Some parts give you major Daniel Craig vibes, just cracking heads like a brutal madman, and honestly, it’s cool af.
I could not imagine any better studio to make a game about bond than IOI.
You can see very clearly, how decades of creating Hitman were put to use in making First light, while making it a very diffrent game than Hitman.
One of the fears before the release online was “hopefully its not just british hitman” and it really isn’t.
While having constant easter eggs and nods to hitman franschise (which were amazing). It never made me feel like I’m playing some htiman clone which is a huge plus.
And I’m saying that having 1000+ h in WOA trilogy.
It looks like bond game, it feels like bond game and it plays like bond game.
Characters are great, story is very good, shooting system is IOI’s best one yet and feels amazing.
Bonus note – Game has many moments when I was thinking: “Am I playing uncharted 5 – among spies?” Which as a fan of te series made me just smile from ear to ear.
I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun and joy in a single player linear game.
