Welcome to Runes of Illumination, an abstract puzzle game in which you battle the darkness for as long as you can before you are inevitably consumed by it.

Instructions

Generate light by illuminating tiles and positioning them adjacent to others with the same runes.

Achieve a high score by generating as much light as you can before your demise.

Tiles automatically spread light or darkness to adjacent tiles each turn, the stronger of which claims the tile.

Controls

Left click and drag -- swap the runes in adjacent tiles.

Right click -- randomize the runes in a tile.

Double click: illuminate a neutral tile (a tile with at least 1 light).

Space: skip the turn.

Mouse3 and drag or WASD or Arrow keys: pan the map.

Tips

• Enable Fast Mode for instant turns.
• The darkness grows stronger the more tiles you have illuminated, so make sure all of your illuminated tiles have many matching adjacent runes.
• You can't win. Sorry.
• Every tile transfers half of its light or darkness randomly to adjacent tiles every turn, even the ones you can't see.
• A tile's current light is indicated in bright yellow at the top, or its darkness is indicated in dark purple. It can't have both since they cancel each other.

Known Issues

• The game may occasionally crash when exiting.
• It is only available for Windows. Sorry.

Credits

Design, code, art, music -- v3ck

Font -- Monogram

Testing -- jsu