A Myst-Like Shadow-Puzzle Adventure in a Town of Eternal Dusk

Shadewick is a Myst-like, point-and-click shadow-puzzle adventure where every light casts its shadow into a second, older world — and you solve puzzles by lighting rooms so their shadows rebuild the place that used to be there. You arrive with the last unhooded lantern. Drag it across each hand-built 2.5D street diorama and its projected shadow re-drapes over the ground and the buildings; wherever the shadow falls, the ink-wash umbral world shows through — the town as it once was — and it is walkable. It runs entirely on your phone: no account, no ads, no analytics.

What you do:

Drag a lantern to cast true projected 2.5D shadows that skew and stretch with distance
Reveal the walkable umbral town wherever a shadow falls — walk an old staircase inside a wall's shadow
Shape shadows to open doors, and carry umbral objects through corridors of darkness between scenes
Restore a great hooded lamp in each of five town quarters, then invert the hour in the finale
Take rubbings of the residue and get escalating lampwright-proverb hints — rule-based and on-device
Play fully offline and local-first — no account, no ads, your progress never leaves the phone

Coming soon to the App Store & Google Play.

Shadewick scene — a dusk-lit 2.5D street diorama with a glowing lantern casting a projected shadow that reveals the ink-wash umbral world

How It Works

🏮 Shadows Are Doors

Shadow isn't absence — in Shadewick it's residue, the shape of whatever stood in a spot longest. Wherever a cast shadow falls, the umbral world of the old town shows through, and it's real: the old staircase exists inside a wall's shadow, usable while the shadow holds.

🔦 True Projected 2.5D Shadows

Occluders are depth-placed planes and your lantern has a real position and height, so each shadow skews and stretches with distance exactly like a shoebox theater. Move the lantern in x and z and the shadows visibly re-drape over the diorama — where an object stands is part of the answer.

🧩 Point-and-Click Shadow Puzzles

A true light-and-shadow mystery, not a twitch game. Compose a keyhole of shadow to open a vault, herd a figure who flees your light, or shuttle an umbral object across four scenes with mirrors — set it all up, then commit.

🗺️ Five Hooded Quarters

Restore one great hooded lamp per town quarter to permanently widen the umbral overlap. Light all five and the finale inverts the hour: light becomes residue, and shadow becomes now.

📖 Hints That Stay Cryptic

Take a rubbing of any suspicious surface and the lampwrights answer in proverbs — “residue remembers weight, not wishes” — escalating to a drawn diagram only after you've truly been stuck. Every hint is rule-based and on-device, never a chatbot.

🔒 Offline & Local-First

No account, no login, no cloud, no analytics, no ads. Every light placement, restored lamp, rubbing, and story flag lives in a local save on your phone. Your progress never leaves the device.

A Look Inside

Shadewick scene view showing a lantern casting a projected shadow that reveals the umbral old town across the diorama — The scene — lantern & projected shadow

Shadewick lamp map showing the five town quarters and their great-lamp restoration progress — The lamp map — five hooded quarters

Shadewick journal showing residue rubbings and an escalating lampwright-proverb hint — The journal — rubbings & proverbs

Shadewick's unlock screen — a single $9.99 one-time purchase, never a subscription, with the free Wick Quarter staying free — One unlock, $9.99 — honest, optional pricing

Made for Players Who Love

🕯️ Myst & Atmosphere

A quiet, hand-built world you explore at your own pace
Point-and-click puzzles solved by thought, not reflexes
A dual-world register: warm lit ruin vs. cool ink-wash umbral town

💡 Clever Mechanics

Real projected-shadow geometry where placement is the puzzle
Two-world objects that exist only inside shadow
A finale that inverts light and shadow entirely

🔕 No-Nonsense Games

Fully offline — no account, no sign-up, no ads
A generous free quarter, then one honest one-time purchase
Progress stored only on your device

Unlock Shadewick

The entire Wick Quarter is free — the full lantern-and-shadow mechanic, rubbings, proverb hints, and its first great-lamp restoration, with no account and no card needed to start. A single one-time unlock opens the other four quarters, the inverted finale, and the deepest lampwright-diagram hint tier. Buy once, keep forever — never a subscription.

One-time purchase · no subscription

Unlock Shadewick

$9.99 once

The four gated quarters, the inverted finale, and the lampwright-diagram hint tier. Yours forever, on every device signed in to your store account.

Prices may vary by region and are shown in the app at the time of purchase. Shadewick is sold as a single non-consumable one-time purchase (shadewick_all_access) — there is no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no free trial, because the free quarter is the trial. Purchases restore on a new device with Restore Purchases. See our Terms and EULA for full purchase details.

Privacy First — Your Progress Stays on the Phone

Shadewick is built local-first. Here's exactly how it works:

No account, no cloud, no server. You don't sign up or log in. There is no backend that receives your data — nothing to leak and nothing to fail.
Your save never leaves the device. Light placements, restored lamps, inventory, rubbings, and story flags are stored only in a local save file on your phone.
Everything is deterministic and on-device. The shadow geometry and the proverb-hint engine are rule-based logic that runs entirely on your device — no language model, no AI, and no network needed to play.
No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Shadewick shows no ads and uses no advertising identifiers or third-party analytics.
One billing helper. The only data that ever leaves your phone is purchase data, handled by Apple, Google, and RevenueCat to validate and restore the optional one-time unlock.

For complete details, see our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and EULA.