Lumenwick · free in your browser
A cosy online world of islands and harbours. Light the lanterns one by one, bring an abandoned street back to life, and share it with whoever else is online.
Grand Harbor, from afternoon into night — recorded in the game
The story
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, until the light runs all the way round again. But the dark did not stay empty.
What you'll do
Everything here is in the game today, recorded as it plays.
The core of it
Nobody lights the lamps for you. Walk up to a dead lantern, strike a flame, and the circle of light it throws is part of the island that is yours again. Every beacon you bring back makes the Old Lighthouse reach further — there is no percentage anywhere in the game.
Bring it back
Find a broom and sweep out thirteen years of dust. Hang the shutters back straight. Light the lamp by the door, and the house is yours. Do it to enough houses and the family that left moves back in: the baker opens the bakery, the schoolteacher stands in front of a class.
Somewhere to live
Rent a room above the inn, buy a house on the harbour, or restore a derelict one. Then furnish it: sixty-three pieces of furniture, walls you place yourself, floors, wallpaper and stairs. Leave the door open for everyone, only for friends, or keep it your quiet corner.
And the dark pushes back
Past the last lamp the islands have gone feral: drowned marshes, ash plains, wisps that lead you off the path. In Blackwick, light a lantern and a Candlesnuffer walks over to put its bell over the flame. Some lanterns there you will light more than once.
“There is no progress bar in Lumenwick. There is a lighthouse.”
The Old Lighthouse on the harbour mole starts as one small, flickering light. Every beacon you bring back makes it reach further, until it throws a full beam out into the night.
The islands
Six places, each with its own weather, its own ground underfoot and its own reason to be dark.
where it starts
The smallest light that ever hung on the Lumen Network — and the first one you light.
the harbour you keep coming back to
Grand Harbor still has its lights on: a market till dark, an inn with rooms upstairs, a cathedral, an arena.
chapter one · absence
The village is not destroyed. It emptied out. Old Bramwell still keeps the kettle warm.
chapter two · work that stopped
Everything stopped mid-sentence. On a workbench lies a letter that breaks off halfway through a line.
chapter three · depth of time
The Tidekeeper answers most questions with “I don't know”. 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, and a long way to swim.
Haven City
A market that runs till dark, an inn with rooms upstairs, a cathedral, a bath house and a dance hall. Click a picture to see it full size.
For young and old
Children play here too, so safety is built into how the game works.
New accounts can only chat with friends, and a friend is someone you both accepted. Chat can also be switched off completely.
The only way to reach a stranger is a message in a bottle: one of thirty fixed sentences. Nobody can type their own words into it.
Every player has Block and Report on their card. Blocking is yours alone; a report goes to a moderator, and a person reads it.
No adverts, no loot boxes, nothing to buy with real money. We never ask for your email address, your age or where you live.
Getting started
Go to play.lumenwick.com on your computer or phone. Nothing to install.
Pick a name and a password. No email needed. Write down the recovery words you get.
Talk to Wenna on Kleinlicht, strike the flame, and take the boat to Grand Harbor.
Recently in Lumenwick
On a phone, pressing and holding somebody now remembers who you meant, even while they walk.
The fog on the Mistfall Isles is eighteen times lighter to draw, so weaker laptops keep up.
You can parry. Enemies wind up with a “!” before they strike; press Space at the right moment and they stagger.
Every tree, animal and creature redrawn: spruce, pollard willow, palm, reed, and the things in the marsh.
Questions
In development, and already a world you can walk around in. Today that means:
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.
Yes. It runs in the browser on your phone as well as on a computer: tap to walk, pinch to zoom, press and hold somebody for their card. Holding the phone sideways plays best.
Yes. Everybody who is online shares the same world. Add each other with your friend codes (press V), then talk, trade, fish side by side or visit each other's houses.
Children play here, so it is built for that. New accounts start with chat set to friends only, and it can be turned off completely. Every player has Block and Report on their card, and a person reads every report. There are no ads and nothing to buy with real money.
Yes — the whole game is in English and in Dutch. You pick the language on the first screen and can change it later in the menu.
Lumenwick runs straight in your browser. You click, and you are standing on the quay.
