How it plays
The Watches
Every night from the first of November until the spring relief boat, without one missed. Each Watch has one puzzle-box at its heart, and each box had a day job first.
Coming to Steam, Spring 2027
How the Watches are kept
Things that open
Chests, boats, machines, and models the keepers built to be searched and found empty. Every lock had a day job first: a tide table, a light character, a hymn number.
Paper that lies
Old letters, newspapers, service slips. They are the story and they are the evidence, and when one of them is false, somebody wrote it that way and somebody gained by it.
Tools you earn
A light, a mirror, a magnifying glass. Each does an ordinary job first. Then each shows you something the eye alone can’t, and stays in the drawer for every Watch after.
Posted inside the cottage door
The Watch Bill
- First WatchThe Keeper's Chest
- Second WatchThe Boathouse
- Third WatchThe Foghorn House
- Fourth WatchThe Tide Lock
- Fifth WatchThe Model Village
- Sixth WatchThe Light Itself
One place, six nights’ work. The Station page shows all six, and the objects close up.
Walk the StationWhat you are asked to do
Keep the light. Open what the keepers before you sealed. Read what they wrote, and decide which of it to believe.
There are nine names. The Book is on the desk, and it is patient. Do not write in it until you are sure.
What the site will not tell you
How any box opens, whose names they are, or why the light is burning. Those are the game.
The plain facts
- Kind
- Photorealistic puzzle-box mystery, played alone
- Shape
- Six Watches, twenty-two papers, nine names
- Platform
- PC
- Release
- Coming to Steam, spring 2027
- Today
- Release 1 is complete in playable form. The full art pass is underway.
