Wickerlight

Carry the last light home.

Spring 2027  /  PC, Switch, PlayStation 5

The dark came up out of the water and took the forest, one unlit house at a time. You are Oriel, the lamplighter's apprentice. You have one lantern, a little oil, and a long way to walk home.

Genre
Atmospheric adventure
Length
About 6 to 8 hours
Players
1
Release
Spring 2027
Made by
Hollowpine Games

Three places the dark took.

Move your light

The Sunken Wood

Pines up to their knees in black water. The lamps along the old boardwalk still work, if you can reach them before your oil runs out.

Light is everything you have.

Oriel walking through a burnt orchard, lantern glowing orange

Your lantern is your life

Oil burns down as you walk. Let it go out and the dark closes in. Every refill is a choice: push on, or turn back for the lamp you passed.

Light builds the path

Old wicker bridges only hold while they're lit. Swing the lantern wide to cross, and watch what fades behind you.

Relight the houses

Each home you relight brings someone back: a ferryman, a bell-ringer, your old teacher. They remember what took the forest.

No combat, no timer

The dark isn't a monster to fight. It's weather. Read it, wait it out, outsmart it.

Four people, one garage in Tacoma.

We've been making Wickerlight on weekends, then nights, then full time since 2023. Every tree in it is drawn by code our artist wrote by hand.

Two developers working side by side at their screens
Two people at a desk late at night, city lights outside
A developer with headphones, lit by his monitor

The devlog

One email a month: what we built, what broke, and early builds for readers first.

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First letter lands at the start of next month. Keep a light on.

Press kit.

Title
Wickerlight
Developer
Hollowpine Games, Tacoma, WA
Publisher
Self-published
Release
Spring 2027
Platforms
PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
Price
To be announced
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese
Team
4 people: design, art and code, sound, everything else

Short description: A lamplighter's apprentice carries the last lantern home through a drowned forest where the dark takes anything left unlit.

Lantern mark
SVG, vector
Key art
1600 x 900, WebP
Screenshot, Sunken Wood
1600 x 900, WebP
Screenshot, Bell Marsh
1600 x 900, WebP

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