Adventure begins at home
A cosy isometric world in your browser. Relight the beacons, furnish a room of your own, and share the harbour with whoever else is online.
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Once, the Lumen Network tied every island together. At its source stood the Everlight, and while that burned nobody ever lost their way home — however dark the sea got.
Then came The Sundering. The beacons went out, the islands drifted apart, and the sea roads disappeared into the dark.
You are a Lamplighter. You start with nothing but a flame, on an island barely still on the map. From there you sail on: beacon to beacon, harbour to harbour, until the light runs all the way round again.
But the dark did not stay empty. Something moved into the places the Lumen used to reach.
Six things, and none of them is a leaderboard.
Every island has its own dead beacon. Light it and the world around it wakes up — and the next sea road opens.
Past the last lamp the islands have gone feral. Drowned marshes, ash-covered ruins, wisps that lead you off the path, and things that crawled in when the Lumen died. Bring a blade.
Some beacons are guarded. Learn to hold a sword in the arena at Haven City, then go and take one back — alone if you must, together if you're wise.
Rent a room above the inn and furnish it exactly how you want. Invite people over, or keep it your own quiet corner.
Talk, trade, dance, fish, and head out together. Lumenwick is meant to be a place you live in, not a race you win.
Every trip ends the same way: the harbour lights, a warm room, and someone who asks where you've been.
Six places, each with its own weather, its own ground underfoot and its own reason to be dark.
where it starts
A rock of thirty by twenty-four tiles with one house, one shed, one jetty and one beacon — the smallest light that ever hung on the Lumen Network. Wenna lit it by hand every evening for fifty years, and last night her hands would not do it. She gives you her tinderbox and waves you off from the jetty. Nothing in it is magic. What is special is that it never once stood cold.
the harbour you keep coming back to
Grand Harbor still has its lights on. A market that runs till dark, an inn with rooms upstairs, shops, a cathedral, a bath house, a dance hall, an arena, a shipyard and a fishing village on the south flats. This is where you buy your gear, rent your room, take your quests and hear what came back on the evening tide.
chapter one · absence
The village is not destroyed. It emptied out. Old Bramwell still keeps the kettle warm “in case anyone comes back”, and the water wheel of the Old Mill has not turned in years. Beyond the houses the ground gives way: old marsh, sodden woods, the peat diggings, and then open salt flats where the path stops pretending.
chapter two · work that stopped
Here everything stopped mid-sentence. On a workbench lies a letter that breaks off halfway through a line. Old Corvin keeps the coals warm because a cold forge cracks. The island runs from cold to hot as you walk it: ash grey shore, ash plain, cinder fields, casting floor, and last the lava gorge.
chapter three · depth of time
The stone of the Drowned Observatory is older than the Everlight, and the Tidekeeper answers most questions with “I don't know”. Each island in the chain is smaller and further out than the last, which means the danger is not getting there. It is getting back. The wisps are not there to help you.
and one place with nothing in it
No beacon, no boss, no chapter. Warm shallows, a market on the sand, palms, and a long way to swim. Every other island is built from safe to dangerous in strips you can read as you walk. Sunspire has no dangerous strip, and that is the entire point of Sunspire.
The harbour you sail back to. Click any picture to see it full size.
There is no percentage anywhere in Lumenwick.
The Old Lighthouse stands on the head of the west mole from your very first evening, and it is deliberately unimpressive: one small, flickering light. Every beacon you bring back makes it reach further, until it throws a full beam out into the night.
Light all three, and something out on the water answers — from a direction where no chart has an island. It blinks twice, then settles into the slow rhythm of a real sea light. There is no quest attached. You just see it.
Everything you need for your first evening. Nothing to install, nothing to pay, and it plays on a phone just as well.
Click the ground and you walk there, or use WASD and the arrow keys. Turn the scroll wheel to zoom in and out; on a phone, pinch with two fingers. Walk through a doorway and you are inside.
Press T and type your message; Enter sends it. Above the text box are five little faces — click one and your own face joins in, and a smiley in your sentence does the same. Start with /w to whisper or /s to shout.
Click a slime to attack it. Key 1 is your strike, key 2 drinks a potion. In trouble? Resting in bed slowly brings your health back. Fighting and doing jobs both raise your level.
Press H near the water to cast your rod, and press H again the moment something bites. Every spot has its own fish, and some of them only bite at night.
Walk into a house with a FOR SALE sign to buy it. Press B to build: furniture, walls, floors and wallpaper. Click an inner door to open or close it. Other players can ring your doorbell — you decide whether to answer.
Press V to find friends and send messages. Click somebody standing nearby to trade. Right-click anyone for their card — on a phone, press and hold — and you can ask to be friends, trade, block or report from there.
On faraway islands a little creature sometimes follows you home. Click it to tuck it into your bag, and click yourself to let it back out.
Children play here, so this is worth saying plainly. Every player has a card — right-click them, or press and hold on a phone — and that card has Block and Report on it. Blocking is yours alone and you can undo it later. Reporting brings a moderator in, so it asks you once whether you are sure. And if something frightens or upsets you, tell someone at home about it as well.
A cosy isometric world you play in the browser. Walk, talk, trade, fish, fight when you have to, and furnish a room of your own.
Nothing to try. There is no launcher, no installer and no download — you open a page and you are standing in it.
No, and it says so. Seven places are walkable, the beacons work, the lighthouse answers and you can live in a house of your own. The rest arrives without announcement.
One person, in the Netherlands, in the evenings. That is also why it is taking a while.
In development, and already a world you can walk around in. This is what that means, exactly. What comes after it, you will find out when you walk into it.
Lumenwick runs straight in your browser. No install, no download — you click, and you're there.
Play nowThe world is already playable, and it keeps growing — one evening at a time.
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