Wickes & Wishes

The lanterns of the night market have been going out, one by one. Its stallholders have drifted away along the road. Now one small stall is yours, and with it the chance to bring the whole market back. Wicks & Wishes is a cosy merge game set after dark. Make things to sell, merge them into better ones, serve your customers, and spend your silver relighting the market, one town at a time. MERGE AND MAKE Tap your makers for candles, dough, buttons and more, then drag matching items together to make something better. A candle stub becomes a glass lantern, a lump of dough becomes a honey cake, a button becomes a music box. There is no luck in it: every maker fills a little meter, and you always know what comes next. DISCOVER SECRET RECIPES Some different items combine into something new. Dough and a spiced filling make a dumpling. A paper lantern and a moon charm make a wishing lantern. Nobody tells you which pairs work: try them, and keep every recipe you find in your recipe book. GET TO KNOW YOUR REGULARS A travelling nurse, a retired clockmaker, a grumpy astronomer, a boy on a bicycle, the night-mail rider and the market cat keep coming back to your stall. They remember what you served them, ask for their usual, and the better you know them, the more of their stories you hear. TWENTY TOWNS ON THE LANTERN ROAD Light a fountain square, a hilltop green, a bridge over the river, a frost fair on the ice and a city clock square. In every town you’ll find an old stallholder who never quite gave up: a chestnut seller, a cook, a sweet maker, a glassblower, a puppeteer and more. Choose how each square looks, and follow the road all the way to where the market began. MARKET NIGHTS AND KEEPSAKES Join seasonal market nights such as the frost fair, bonfire night and the Christmas market, collect cards of everyone you meet, and fill your keepsake trunk. A warm, gentle game with a music-box waltz and no rush. Play a few minutes or a whole evening. Wicks & Wishes is free to play. It includes optional in-app purchases and optional rewarded adverts, which you only see if you choose to watch one.

Welcome to the Wicks & Wishes open test! Merge, discover secret recipes, get to know your regulars and relight a travelling night market across twenty towns. This is an early version, so please tell us about anything that looks wrong, is unclear, or feels too slow or too fast. Thank you for helping us light the lanterns!