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"So what am I looking at?"

Wender is a game about grinding in and exploring strange planes, all the while meeting even stranger characters and having perhaps even more strange things happen around you.

"That doesn't tell me anything, gimme the deets!"

Grind Resources and Level Skills

Harvest different kinds of resources with different tools. Trade items with locals to harvest faster and/or do other cool (and maybe even useful!) things.

Feed the Lighthouse

The furnaces haven't been tended to for a long time, fuel them to push back the fog and access the higher lighthouse floors.

Explore the Planes

Travel across different planes, some tranquil and vibrant, others desolate and liminal. Find ruined temples, abandoned treasures and meet the locals.

Vibes you can expect

First-person 3D Incremental/Clicker

For people who want to see number go up in 3D or liked the following games A Game About Digging A Hole, Lumberjacked and Outpath (I recommend checking all three out if you like this sorta thing!).

Uncanny Atmospheric Horror

No gore. Unsettling atmosphere over quantity of jumpscares. The worlds are weird, and they only get weirder when the lighthouse stops working and the fog rolls in.

Surreal Planes Inspired by Early Pre-Rendered 3D

Non-euclidean lighthouse where each floor takes you to a different world. Valleys of bamboo groves surrounded by marble columns. Vast barren deserts filled with ruins, girders and leather couches. Yea, I like Myst, how could you tell?

Current features

• 2-6 hours of gameplay
• 8 skills that make you exponentially better at things
• 12 resources to harvest, 31 items to gather or process from something else
• Find or unlock and buy better tools and upgrades from locals
• Buy a house
• Explore 4 unique planes, find out what's still there and what has been left behind
• Collect 7 sets of cards, some with neat rewards (hey did that just sorta rhyme?)
• Spooky stuff happening in the fog

Features you might see later

• New skills like fishing, farming and building
• New characters with quests and context based dialogue
• Random events, anomalies and new entities to encounter
• A main questline that leads you to the top of the lighthouse and into new places
• So much content that I'll need MS Excel to manage it all based on my 1000-line backlog of ideas and player feedback

Web version issues

• Esc to close pause menu is disabled to reduce issues (use tab or click outside the menu instead)
• One-time freezes during certain moments in the game as the game loads stuff for the first time

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Developer notes

Wender is a game I've been working on solo since around start of 2026. Previously it was called "Out of Light". Also saves will probably keep breaking until all the core systems are finished, sorry!

I love grindy games that keep the loop fresh with new mechanics and things happening, so having run out of similar games to play, I figured I'd try to make one myself. Greatly inspired by games like A Game About Digging A Hole, Lumberjacked, Outpath, OSRS and NGU Idle.

Feedback on balancing, bugs, unclear mechanics, or anything else (like commenting what was cool or what sucked) is greatly appreciated!

Thanks for checking Wender out!