Locations

0:03 007 First Light takes place across nine settings in the present day: Iceland, MI6 headquarters in London, Malta, the Grand Carpathian Hotel in Slovakia, Aleph in Mauritania, a museum in Kensington, Webb Industries in the City of London, The Pearl resort in Vietnam and Antarctica. IO Interactive's official site lists eight of them as the game's locations (IOI); Webb Industries' tower is the ninth, the stage of Knightfall. The campaign moves between them mission by mission, each place the stage of one or more chapters (Beebom), and every place has a Postcard to collect. Four of them came back after launch as TacSim maps.

Quick facts

Where does 007 First Light take place?

Sources: IO Interactive for the official places and quoted lines; Beebom, May 27, 2026, for chapters; IOI's 1.3.0 notes for mission numbers.

Iceland

28:20 The campaign opens on an Icelandic beach, where Bond, a Royal Navy air crewman, starts unarmed and breaks into a camp of shipping containers and buildings to free captives (Beebom). It is what brings him to MI6's attention.

MI6 headquarters, London

9:26:00 IOI calls the building "aka Universal Exports". The cutscene chapters between missions are walked on foot here: M's office, Moneypenny's desk, Operations with THEIA, MI6's AI, and the Q-Lab, whose rooms PowerPyx names Q-01 Gym, Q-03 Stress Testing, Q-07 Wearables and Q-08 Armory. Selina Tan's TacSim area is here too, and since 1.3.0 (Oct 1, 2026) Jack the Bulldog lives near it. The final mission, For England, is fought through the whole building. See M, Q and Moneypenny.

Malta

59:20 Where the 00 program trains its recruits: a lap of the island, shooting, the barracks compound and the safehouse Moneypenny gives Bond (Into Indie Games).

The Grand Carpathian Hotel, Slovakia

4:00 A "stately five-star hotel" hosting the World Chess Championship (IOI), in the Carpathian Mountains named in the story trailer's release. IOI's Sep 3, 2025 gameplay reveal, alpha footage of a pre-release build, drives up the mountain road to its gate. The mission runs from the lobby and laundry to the cellars and ends in the air. The mountain roads around it are the setting of the Valhalla Protocol, four TacSim driving missions in the armed Aston Martin Valhalla, playable since Oct 5, 2026.

Aleph, Mauritania

4:45:30 Bawma's black market, built in an abandoned ship graveyard in Mauritania that he took over by the age of 17 (IOI). IOI's line: infiltrate it "ideally without becoming crocodile food". The Year One roadmap promised a TacSim return here with off-road driving (IOI, Jun 6, 2026); it has no date as of Nov 4, 2026. See Year One Roadmap.

Kensington and Bayswater, London

5:41:10 Bond's own flat is in Bayswater, and the gala he gatecrashes is at "one of London's most renowned museums" in Kensington (IOI), from the cafe and cloakroom to the CCTV room and the basement archive. The Workshop, a museum space in the same mission, became a TacSim Escalation in 1.1.0 (Jul 24, 2026). The mission starts as Bond drops Greenway at the Crosshair Bar and goes home.

Webb Industries, City of London

6:43:10 The headquarters of Sir Nicholas Webb's company, climbed floor by floor to the penthouse and a fortified structure on top called the Perch, then down to a data center and a helicopter on the Flight Deck (Beebom). It is not on IOI's list of locations.

The Pearl, Vietnam

0:35 A "luxurious tropical resort" (IOI) with the Ocean View Bar, the Lotus Bar, the Velvet Lantern, the Tranquility Platform and Cave, the Serenity Space, the Hung Villa and the Emperor Villa, and a quarry beyond it (Into Indie Games). Bond arrives by speedboat, which IOI's 1.1.0 notes call "the speedboat ride". The resort returned on Oct 1, 2026 as the TacSim operation Jungle Heist, in which the whole property, rooftop included, is playable (IOI).

Antarctica

9:52:40 A "top-secret R&D facility in the frozen reaches of Antarctica" (IOI), reached by cable car, with Robotics, Utility and Operations floors, a security office and docks on icy water.

Postcards

0:59 Each place has one Postcard, ten in all: Iceland (Chapter 1), Malta (3), Slovakia (8), Mauritania (10), Kensington (11), City of London (12), Vietnam (14), Q-Lab (15), Antarctica (16) and MI6 (17), in PowerPyx's chapter numbers (PowerPyx). Finding all ten unlocks the Silver trophy The world is not enough. See Collectibles.

Frequently asked questions

Where does 007 First Light take place? In Iceland, MI6 in London, Malta, the Grand Carpathian Hotel in Slovakia, Aleph in Mauritania, Kensington, the City of London, The Pearl resort in Vietnam and Antarctica, in the present day.

Is 007 First Light open world? No single open map has been described. The campaign moves from place to place mission by mission, and TacSim reuses some of those maps.

Is the Grand Carpathian Hotel in 007 First Light a real place? IO Interactive describes it only as a stately five-star hotel in Slovakia hosting the World Chess Championship, in the Carpathian Mountains. It is the setting of All the Time in the World.

Which locations are in TacSim in 007 First Light? As of Nov 4, 2026, Kensington's The Workshop (Jul 24), the Slovakian mountains in the Valhalla Protocol (Oct 5) and The Pearl in Jungle Heist (Oct 1). Aleph is promised with no date.

Where is Aleph in 007 First Light? Aleph is Bawma's black market in an abandoned ship graveyard in Mauritania, the setting of The Past Never Dies.

Sources

• 007 First Light, IO Interactive
• Lenny Kravitz joins 007 First Light as The Pirate King Bawma, IO Interactive, Dec 12, 2025
• 007 First Light Year One Content Roadmap Revealed, IO Interactive, Jun 6, 2026
• New Vietnam Mission in TacSim, IO Interactive, Oct 1, 2026
• Valhalla Protocol missions playable now, IO Interactive, Oct 5, 2026
• 1.1.0 Game Update, IO Interactive, Jul 24, 2026
• 1.3.0 Game Update, IO Interactive, Oct 1, 2026
• 007 First Light Missions List - How Many Chapters Are There, Beebom, May 27, 2026
• 007 First Light Against The Odds Mission Walkthrough, Beebom, May 26, 2026
• 007 First Light Knightfall Mission Walkthrough, Beebom, May 29, 2026
• 007 First Light - The Needle's Eye Walkthrough, Into Indie Games, May 28, 2026
• 007 First Light - Time To Die Walkthrough, Into Indie Games, Jun 3, 2026
• 007 First Light: The Kotaku Review, Kotaku, May 26, 2026
• 007 First Light All Postcard Locations, PowerPyx, May 26, 2026
• 007 First Light - Launch Trailer | PS5 Games, PlayStation, May 21, 2026 (video)
• 007 FIRST LIGHT Gameplay Walkthrough FULL GAME [4K 60FPS PC ULTRA] - No Commentary, MKIceAndFire, May 27, 2026 (video)
• 007 First Light - Gameplay Reveal, 007 First Light, Sep 3, 2025 (video)
• 007 First Light - The Pearl Resort, 007 First Light, May 27, 2026 (video)
• 007 First Light All Collectible Locations (Cards, Intel, Mementos, Legacy Items, Postcards), PowerPyx, May 27, 2026 (video)