Lamplighters: hold the night

Real-time co-op shooter for 1 to 4 players. The village lights are out and the Shades come in waves: survive 15 waves and dawn will break.

1. Move with WASD, aim with the mouse and hold the click to fire. On a phone, the left stick moves and the right one aims and fires.
2. Every shade you drop scores points. Keep the kills coming and your combo grows, and with it the multiplier (up to ×4); getting hit halves the combo.
3. Points unlock weapons: Sparkler, Flare blunderbuss, Arc lamp and Fair rocket. A combo of 15 hands you the next one right away. Switch with keys 1-5 or the weapon button.
4. You have tokens to place barricades (F), which hold the shades back until they break them, and firecrackers (G), which go off when stepped on. Every wave cleared gives you more tokens.
5. There are four shades: the plain Shade, the lightning-fast Scurrier, the Hulk that smashes barricades and the Smudger that spits ink from afar. Every 5 waves the Gloom arrives.
6. Run out of health and you go down: a teammate picks you up by staying beside you. If nobody comes, you are back next wave. The run ends when nobody is left standing… or at dawn.

Tips and options

• Grab what the shades drop: broth to heal, oil for ammo and moonlight to deal double damage for a while.
• A barricade in a narrow lane with a firecracker behind it beats a thousand shots.
• Quick match puts you with other people looking for a game, no Elo. The high-score tables keep each team’s best wave and score, for today and all time.
• The host picks the arena (the Square, the Harbour, the Orchard or random) and the difficulty.