NightCaster: Defeat the Darkness is a 2002 third-person, single-player, action-adventure game for the Xbox, developed by VR1 Entertainment and published by Microsoft.

Players take the role of Arran, a novice wizard whose magical power grows as he ages throughout his quest to collect spells and rid the world of eternal night.

The start of the story mode introduces the player to Arran, a young boy living in a small village.

One day, Arran creeps into a forest whilst playing hide and seek with his friends, and stumbles upon a glowing floating orb.

Arran wakes up, having aged to around the mid-twenties, to find his world devastated by darkness and the legions of monsters under the reign of the Nightcaster spreading terror over the populace.