How to Play

☀ Day - Build homes and shops. Shops earn coins while open. Residents live, work... and age. Everyone dies in about a week. That's fine. That's the game.

🔔 Evening (6pm) - Prepare for curfew: close shops, lock houses, light lanterns. The watchman works through "lock all" orders slowly - a big town can't lock down in time without help.

🌙 Midnight - Your dead rise from the graveyard. Ghosts drift slowly until they spot an open shop, an unlocked occupied house, or someone outdoors - then they swoosh. A ghost in a house scares the family to death.

🏮 Lanterns - Protect a radius, burn Afterglow. Here's the twist: lanterns feed on nearby ghosts - they get stronger and refund Afterglow when ghosts drift close. Keep your enemies close.

⚖ The Balance - The living must outnumber the dead. Graves drip Afterglow (you need some dead!), but if the dead outnumber the living at two dawns running: TOWN CONDEMNED.

⚰ Graveyard rituals - By day, spend Afterglow at the graveyard to manage the dead: hold a vigil (a grave skips rising), cleanse a bitter spirit, or lay one to rest for good. The dead are the game - turn the graveyard into your daytime front line.

🔔 The Mayor - Take control of the mayor and ring his bell to scatter ghosts in a radius. Build a Stable so he rides faster, Watch Houses so curfew orders clear quicker.

📜 Commissions & blessings - Little goals (build 2 lanterns, reach a population) pay out coins and Afterglow. A daily blessing tops you up each dawn.

🚂 Play with a friend - Build a Train Station to Visit a friend's separate town and gift resources when their night is winning - or Build Together in one shared town, side by side. In Build Together the town belongs to whoever Hosts - it saves to their account, and only they can continue it solo later.

Mouse: left-drag pan · right-drag spin & tilt · wheel zoom · click select
Touch: one finger pan · two-finger pinch zoom · two-finger twist spin · tap select
Keys: WASD pan · Q/E snap-rotate 90° · R rotate placement · 1-3 speed · Space pause · H hide UI · Esc cancel

Controls feel wrong? Open ⚙ Settings to reverse the pan direction and more.

⚙ Settings

All settings save on this device.