Games Like Wickwood

One night. One town. One lantern.

Wickwood is a top-down pixel-art action game about getting out of a small town in the woods before your light runs out. No hunger bar. No thirst. No crafting bench, no base to build, no inventory to sort. A weapon in your hands, fuel on your belt, and a road heading south.

The light is the clock

A full tank burns for four minutes. While it burns, the warm circle around you closes in: the colour drains from white to orange, and in the last quarter the light begins to stutter. Nothing on screen counts down. You read the time you have left off the ground at your feet. Jerry cans are out there in the dark. Finding one is not a bonus — it is the difference between finishing the job and walking home blind.

Three things come for you

They arrive in waves, with quiet in between. Break away far enough for long enough and they lose you — but the quiet never lasts.

Everything is melee

Work your way out

The campground. The old cemetery. The hollow. The dump. The worksite. The rail sidings. The Last Chance Gas station. The sheriff's office. The jobs chain into one another until the last one: an abandoned car on the road south, missing a battery, a jack and a wheel. Carry the battery and you cannot swing at anything. Pick your route.

Plainly