BLACKWICK

Your light is your life. It is always going out.

BLACKWICK is a retro horror FPS set in a dead mining town. Your lantern burns down every second, and its light is your health. The things in the dark eat light — let them close and your flame shrinks. Kill them and the light they stole flies back into your lamp as embers.

The first three floors are free to play right here in your browser. The full game has all ten floors, the thing at the bottom of the mine and the endless Abyss.

What is down there

• A lantern that is your life bar — and the only light you carry. A muzzle flash lights the whole room for an instant: use it to see what is coming.
• 6 guns: revolver, pump shotgun, double barrel, chaingun, rocket launcher, arc caster.
• 7 horrors: husks, crawlers, wardens carrying stolen light, burning wisps, coal brutes, shades you can only see in the light — and the Black Wick itself.
• 10 floors of mine, crypt, gut and furnace, built from fixed seeds so everyone plays the same descent: keycards, push-walls with secrets behind them, explosive barrels, gibs.
• The Abyss (full game): endless new floors, and a record of how deep you got.
• Three difficulties (Candle / Lantern / Black Wick). English and 中文.

Controls

WASD move · mouse look · click shoot · E / Space use · 1–6 or wheel to switch guns · Esc pause. Keyboard and mouse in a desktop browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox).

The full game

One file, BLACKWICK.html: download, double-click, play — offline, nothing to install, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Progress saves after every floor.

Made with

Sound from BUCKSHOT, SNARL and GRAVEWIND; muzzle flashes, hits and explosions from BOOMSTICK; pickups and HUD digits from KEYCARD. Making your own boomer shooter? The three FPS packs are together in the Retro FPS Kit.

AI tools were used during development.

中文

《残灯》是一款复古恐怖第一人称射击游戏。你的提灯一直在燃烧，灯光就是你的生命；黑暗里的怪物会吃掉光，杀死它们，被吃掉的光会化作火星飞回你的灯里。网页可免费试玩前三层；完整版包含全部十层、底层的“黑芯”和无尽的深渊模式。支持中文。