Gloam

Light is the only weapon

Real-time global illumination on your GPU · every sound synthesised live · move the light

The dark is alive

Shades live where light does not reach. Everything you see is lit for real, and they feel it too.

✶Light burns them. Your own glow, your sparks, flares and fires all hurt shades that stray into them.

◐They move through shadow. Shades path around light and are only born in darkness. Pillars and brutes cast shadows they hide in.

♨Kindle every brazier. Stand in its rune circle, or strike it with sparks. When every fire burns, dawn breaks.

❂Your light is your life. Hits dim it. Embers from burned shades restore it.

WASD move · mouse aim, hold to cast sparks · right-click/E flare · Space dash · Esc pause · M mute
Gamepad: left stick moves, right stick aims and fires, LB flare, A dash. Touch: left thumb moves, right thumb aims and fires.

Settings

Light quality

Volume

Music

Screen shake

Mute all

Fullscreen

Hall of Fires

The best runs by everyone who has played this copy of Gloam.

Dawn runs · score

Longest vigils

Paused

The dark waits.

Dawn broke. Choose a boon.

Your light went out.

Dawn.

The Gloam is broken and every fire burns. The city under the city is lit for the first time in an age.

The light can't reach this device

Gloam needs WebGL2 with floating-point render targets: any recent Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on a computer or modern phone.