Nine games, one world

Each one stands on its own. Open more than one and the Traveler walks between them: one character for every game, a shared backpack, stamps and secrets. Free demos in the browser on desktop and phone, in English and Russian.

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New on 18 OctAll nine games were updated on 18 October. From 24 October to 3 November, Halloween runs in all nine: pumpkin light, monsters in pumpkins and an event of its own in each game. Glowbeak is a guest of the whole universe: a three-legged disc with an amber beak that now and then drops by a shop or a beacon, clicks its beak and leaves a gift — twice as often and twice as generous during Halloween. Every game has a new character. Void Courier online: captain and gunner on one ship — the second player joins by a link. A second update the same day brings humour to all nine: tips on the game-over screen, last words of the fallen, a narrator for rare events, jokes for items and funny twins of familiar events. The Lot Engine's modules now level up, and The Clot has creature and boss levels.

Demo and full versionAll nine games on this site are free demos: the first sectors, floors and chapters. The full versions go on sale soon — our shop is being reviewed by the payment provider. Your demo progress will carry over. What the full version adds, and prices

Games

Void Courier

like FTL and Space Rangers

A freighter runs through the sectors ahead of the Wave. Three games in one: fleeing the Wave, ground operations, star systems — any one of them or all together.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Faceless Run: pumpkin masks on enemy ships, pumpkin light and a garland. Now and then Glowbeak drops into the shop and leaves scrap. New character: Dimmer, an enemy boarder in a cap with an amber slit. Void Courier online: a second player joins as gunner by a link. Humour: tips on SIGNAL LOST, the crew's last words, a narrator and the quartermaster's jokes in the shop.

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Outpost

like Craft the World

A colony at the edge of the Wave: dig, build, hold the night and raise the beacon. Play a run across planets or stay on one planet without the Wave.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Pumpkin Watch: night creatures in pumpkin shells. Glowbeak warms up on the beacon ledge and leaves supplies. New character: Hushthorn, a night crawler in ash-grey fluff with an amber thorn. Humour: tips after the colony falls, the colonists' last words and a narrator.

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Warden's Loop

like Loop Hero

A warden walks a loop around a beacon on an erased planet, and you lay down cards of the places he remembers.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Hollow Lantern: loop monsters in pumpkins. Glowbeak sits by the trader's window and leaves iron. New character: Hushboil, a kettle creature. Humour: last words and a tip in the run summary, jokes for items.

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Rabble

like Despot's Game

A crowd of people in the Overseer's maze: buy, feed and arm them — the fights run on their own.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Pumpkin Light: floor monsters in pumpkins. Glowbeak drops by the market and leaves tokens. New character: Gralk, the Overseer's sutler, who lives in a broken vending machine and counts every token. Humour: last words that depend on the item in hand, and a sharp-tongued Overseer.

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The Clot

like Slime 3K

A clot of the Wave breaks loose, eats the Overseer's people and things, grows, mutates and goes after the Overseer himself.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Lantern Within: guards in pumpkin helmets. Glowbeak sits on the vending machine's lamp housing and leaves vat memory. New character: Fixer, the Overseer's service lamp: a square lamp shade on two legs with a heavy slanted eyelid. Creature and boss levels: abilities at 3, 5 and 10. Humour: last words of the eaten and jokes for organs.

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Drop on the Edge

like Bongo Cat

A drop of the Clot sits on the edge of your screen and slaps the ledge with its paw on every key press and click. While it stays open, boxes pile up.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Cosy Creeps: pumpkin skin and hats in the boxes. Glowbeak sits on the edge of a box and leaves sparks. New character: Dimwick, the fair-day bookkeeper in Trades. Humour: farewells from duplicates, Droplet tips and funny events of the day.

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In the works

Early versions: playable, but a lot is still changing. Found a bug? Press F8 in the game or use the Report a bug button.

early version · v0.7

The Unlit

like Project Zomboid

A town after the Wave: sneak, scavenge, fortify and raise the beacon before the courier comes for you. The unlit walk towards light and sound.

New on 18 Octv0.7: Halloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Hollow Shift: the unlit in pumpkins, without a glow, fading into the fog. Glowbeak by the beacon leaves tin. New character: Husher, an unlit in a copper cap. Humour: a survivor's last words and a tip in the death window, jokes for items.

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early version

The Lode

like SteamWorld Dig

A miner from the Tailings settlement digs down through six strata for the lightstone that fed a dead beacon. The lamp runs down, ore sells up top, new tools open new paths.

New on 18 OctHalloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Pumpkin Glow: strata creatures in pumpkin shells. Glowbeak sits under the lamp by the buyer's counter and leaves scrap. New character: Hushwing, a moth with an empty lantern cocoon in the Darkness stratum. Humour: the miner's last words, a tip and a mine summary.

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early version · v0.1

The Lot Engine

like CloverPit

Cutoff station by a dead beacon. The Corporation has billed those left behind for a seat on the last shuttle, and the only thing still making scrap is the lot engine — the crew's old reel machine. Patterns on a 4×4 grid, a vault, terms, a shop of modules and a radio. Fly out, or light the beacon.

New on 18 Octv0.1: Halloween, 24 Oct – 3 Nov — Spark Under Seal: a pumpkin face on the machine's panel. Glowbeak on the panel's edge leaves parts. New character: Tinmug, the module shop clerk. Module levels: they grow with use and gain properties at 3 and 10. Humour: the duty officer's last words and funny radio calls.

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The Traveler — one for every game

The Traveler appears once you have opened more than one game on this site. Each game's menu has checkboxes to switch the links off, and no game loses anything without them. Saves and the profile live in this browser.

What carries over

Name, face and rank are shared by all games. A backpack of up to three items: pick an item up in one game and it works its own way in another.

Stamps

34 stamps: a deed in one game unlocks an item, a hull, a blueprint, cargo or a look in another. Stamps raise your rank from Passenger to Old Hand of the Arm, and rank adds backpack slots.

Secrets

14 hidden stamps. Until a secret is found you only see a riddle and the game where to look. There are quiet easter eggs too — only about the games you have already opened.

Cargo

A parcel of resources from one game to another: earned at the end of a run, spent automatically at the start of a run in another game. One at a time.

Droplet companion

A tiny droplet in the corner of the games slaps its paw on your key presses and dozes off when you step away. Once a day each game has a daily crate: a look for the droplet or cargo. Switch it off in Settings → General.

How to play

Every game except Drop on the Edge and The Lot Engine has four modes: solo against the computer; two players against the computer on one keyboard; player versus player; and “you play the villain” while the computer runs the hero. Difficulty tiers 1–10.
Menu — Esc, help — F1 or “?”, report a bug — F8. Every game's menu has a way back here — Universe.
On a phone, play by touch; landscape works best.