Nightlight

NIGHTLIGHT

The sun is gone. The nightmares came. One lamp still burns.

Nobody remembers the last sunrise. One day the dark came down and never lifted, and out of it crawled the nightmares: every fear people ever carried, now with teeth. Spiders. Heights. Being alone.

A lone survivor ran until they couldn’t run anymore, and found a lamp burning in the middle of nothing. The nightmares wouldn’t come near its light. So they knelt and prayed to it.

And it answered. That’s you.

You are the Lamp. You can’t walk, and you can’t speak. But you see everything your light touches, and you can shape it.

Build a town in the dark

Nightlight is a cozy-creepy life sim where you watch over a little town in the endless night. It’s part Tomodachi Life, part Fallout Shelter, and all of it lit by your flame.

Make your residents in a Mii-style creator: faces, hair, bodies, outfits, voices, personalities, and the one fear that will hunt them.

Build shacks, greenhouses full of glowing mushrooms, oil plants, wells and workshops, and upgrade them as your town grows.

Put people to work, collect what they make, and feed your flame. More oil means more light, and more light means more room to live.

Look inside any building to see who’s working, sleeping, or hiding in there.

Guide the lost in from the edge of the dark, or send someone out with a lamp to scavenge. Not everyone comes back.

They pray to you

Your residents talk to you through prayers, and they pray about what’s really going on: empty stores, a broken door, a friend still missing in the dark, a weapon before the Blood Moon. Some ask politely. Some don’t. Answer them and they’ll love you for it, and their faith lets you push the light even farther.

Every 15 days, the Blood Moon rises

A red moon climbs into the empty sky, and your residents’ fears come to life.

Everyone runs for the nearest door and hides until morning.

Their nightmares walk your streets, hunting anyone caught out in the open.

Something goes door to door, knocking in a voice they know. “It’s me. Let me in.”

Arm your people, build barricades, move them to safer cover, and hope.

In the morning, you count who’s left.

Features

A Mii-style character creator with text-to-speech voices

A living town where residents work, pray, sleep and talk

Nightmares born from each resident’s personal fear

Blood Moon nights where you can only prepare and watch

Weapons, expeditions into the dark, and the missing who sometimes find their way home

Full controller support

An original ambient soundtrack

Nightlight is in active development. New monsters, relationships, and much more are on the way. Follow the devlog for updates, and please share your feedback. A lot of this game was shaped by players’ notes.

Keep the light burning.