Porchlight: Trick or Treat

One night a year. Eight lots of street. A pillowcase to fill. You are Juno, ten years old, in a cardboard box with tinfoil on it, and you are responsible for a six-year-old in a store-bought superhero costume. Between 5 PM and midnight you ring doorbells, pick junk off porches, and turn it into a costume: a colander is a helm, a hairdryer is a jet cape, a bedsheet is a ghost until it tears. When something in a leaf pile looks back at you, the costume becomes what you imagined it was, and you fight it in turn-based battles with timed button presses. CRAFT A COSTUME FROM JUNK Every part adds stats, an attack, a weak point (cardboard hates rain) and an instrument to the battle music, so no two costumes fight or sound the same. A CLOCK THAT RUNS ALL NIGHT Porch lights click off one by one, the streets get stranger, curfew texts arrive at ten, and at 11:59 the thing that has been eating porch lights lands on yours. TRADE YOUR HAUL When the night is over, everyone dumps their pillowcases on the living room carpet and the real negotiations begin. A WHOLE TOWN TO TRICK-OR-TREAT Cross the creek to the street where the monster kids dress up as crossing guards, then head downtown, to the school, the orchard, the cemetery and the fairground. Play arcade cabinets, take on duels, and come back for three Halloweens, three years older. PLAY WITH FRIENDS, OR NOT The whole game plays offline. Online, you can visit friends' streets, decorate your house for contests and climb the leaderboards. Players under 13 get a child account with no public name and an optional parent PIN, and scare levels can be capped. No ads. No in-app purchases. Just one long, good Halloween night.