01Your lantern is your life.
Your light reveals the danger. Its rim burns the creatures that cross it. Carry wax for power, or bank it at a lantern before the dark takes its share.
A candle-lit survivors-like roguelite
Carry the last light
Your lantern is your life. The weapons you reject arm your rival.
One bearer. One small flame. A night that wants them both.
- 17 wick-bearers
- Four parishes and the Last Lamp
- Online and local co-op
Steam · PC / Steam DeckAndroid · iOS later
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The light gives. The dark keeps.
Every flame has a price.
Hold a little light against the horde. Choose what it becomes. But nothing you leave behind stays forgotten.
02Your choices arm the dark.
Take one card. The Hollow Wick gathers the ones you refuse, and when he comes for you at midnight, they are in his hands.
03The night remembers you.
Your last night returns as an Echo: a ghost carrying your old build if you fell, an ally from first light if you made it.
Light is territory
The light you make stays.
Iron lanterns stand unlit across every parish. Kindle one, and that ground stays lit all night.
See what waits in the dark.
A glimpse beyond the lantern
From the first spark to the last stand
Keep the flame. Reach the morning.
01 /
Carry the light
Walk out from the Wick-House with a flame kindled from the Everflame. Make room for it in the dark.
02 /
Bank your wax
Greed burns hot. Keep the power close, or kindle a lantern and bank your wax before the dark takes its share.
03 /
Reach first light
The sun always rises. Carry your flame until the hour, and the Night loosens its grip on the ground you hold.
04 /
Dare the Deep Night
After first light the dark retreats and sheds what it hoarded. Follow it for more wax, without the sun to protect you.
Scenes from the night
Every flame is a front line.
Captured in the current build: kindled lanterns, crowns, the Hollow Wick and the Wick-House between nights.
Kindle a lantern, and its ground stays lit all night. 
The Clockwork Abbot, one of the Belfry's three crowns. 
The Hollow Wick carries every choice you refused. 
In the Drowned Chapel, the tide keeps its dead. 
Under the blood moon, greed glows red. 
Count the tolls in the Midnight Belfry. 
At the Last Lamp, your light burns down. 
Every card you pass up arms the Hollow Wick. 
Between nights, the Wick-House keeps your progress.
Captured from the current development build.
Four parishes. One light beyond them.
No two nights ask the same.
Learn the ground beneath your feet. The dark has already learned it.
01 / Where the lanterns went out
Hollowmere Moor
Fog banks drift across the moor and hide the stalkers. Inside them your light shrinks. Kindle the lanterns before the fog closes in.
02 / The tide keeps its dead
The Drowned Chapel
Black water slows your steps. Every ninety seconds the tide rises, and the drowned move faster in it.
03 / Count the tolls
Midnight Belfry
When the bell tolls, the horde goes berserk behind stone armour. Count the tolls: in the hush, the stone cracks.
04 / Greed glows red
Blood Moon Barrens
When the blood moon rises, your light dims and every blow lands harder, but power comes faster. Take what it offers, if you can hold it.
05 / Where every lamp's light went
The Last Lamp
Beyond the parishes your flame burns down. Catch the drifting Lost Lights to rekindle it, or the dark reaches in.
The Order of the Last Wick
Different hands. The same flame.
Seventeen wick-bearers, each with a trait, a Wick Surge and a deed that wakes them. Find the one you will carry into the night.
Wren
the Lamplighter
Their story
Youngest of the Order when the lamps went out. Relit every one by hand. None would stay lit.
Brother Aldous
the Chandler
Their story
Pours the Order's candles. Where his wax falls, the ground remembers the light.
Mireille
the Bellringer
Their story
Rang the Midnight Bell for forty years. Now she makes it ring for her.
Corvin
the Ashwarden
Their story
Digs graves for the Order and makes sure the dead stay in them.
Isolde
the Moth-Witch
Their story
Left the Order to learn what lives outside the light. Came back with wings in her hair.
Brigid
the Pyre-Keeper
Their story
Tends the Order's funeral pyres. The fire listens to her, and never quite lets her go.
Tobias
the Tinker
Their story
Keeps the Belfry clock running. Believes every problem has one more gear in it.
Sister Vesper
the Pale Nun
Their story
Prays through the whole night. Every half minute, the night flinches.
Grimsby
the Rat-Catcher
Their story
Caught every rat in Hollowmere. Kept them. They follow him now.
Oswin
the Glassblower
Their story
Blew the lenses of every lantern in the Order. Made himself out of the same glass, it seems.
Mother Hollis
the Herbalist
Their story
Has patched up every member of the Order at least twice. Refuses to stop.
Ember
the Lantern Hound
Their story
The Order's hound, with a lamp on her collar. Faster than anything in the dark.
Ser Ulric
the Bell-Knight
Their story
Sworn shield of the Belfry. His helm is an old bell; the dead hear it before they break on it.
Silas
the Gambler
Their story
Won his place in the Order in a card game. Nobody has ever seen him lose one.
Ferris
the Ferryman
Their story
Poled the dead across the chapel waters for a coin each. The water still makes way for him.
Lumen
the Child of Dawn
Their story
Born the night the lamps went out. Grows brighter as the dawn comes closer.
The Hollow Wick
the Rival
Their story
A cold green light. A ledger of everything left behind.
The Hollow Wick
What you leave behind
will find you.
He walks the parishes with a green light that gives no warmth. Every card you pass over is another entry in his ledger. Choose carefully what you leave for him.
You build your strength. You build his, too.
A light freely given
Carry a wick together.
Two bearers share the night, on one screen or online by room code. A friend who joins you online does not need to own the game.
Hallowed ground, omens and wax are shared. When one of you falls, the other can stand over them and raise them again.
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News from the Wick-House: development notes, the first trailer, and word of release.
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Before you take the watch.
Where will I be able to play?
Steam for PC, with Steam Deck support targeted, and Android. iOS is planned for later. Steam Deck verification is not yet confirmed.
How will the game be priced?
A one-time purchase on Steam, with a free demo planned. Android will be free to try, with one purchase to unlock the full game. No ads, subscriptions or gacha.
When does it release?
Coming soon. Join the mailing list for release news.
Can I use a controller?
Yes. Gamepad controls are supported, alongside keyboard controls on PC and touch controls on mobile.
Can we play together?
Yes. Two players can share a night on one screen, or online by room code. An online guest does not need to own the game.