Beneath The Lighthouse vs Pickfall

"I stare at the horizon every night before I sleep hoping to catch a glimpse of the lighthouse.The light reminds me of Grandpa and my summer visits playing on the cliffs. That warm life saving beacon not only saves ships, it keeps me safe too. Grandpa’s there just across the water watching over me. But the lighthouse hasn't shone now for days and the fog is thick! What's happened? It's time to visit Grandpa!" Beneath the lighthouse is a serene puzzle action game about a boy in search of his lost Grandpa. Your journey will take you through mysterious mechanical wheels that lay beneath the lighthouse! **Beneath The Lighthouse is optimized for iPhone5, iPad3, iPad mini2 and iPod Touch 5G or Newer. You can try it on older devices, but we can’t guarantee a smooth rolling experience! -This game is free to play or can be unlocked to a premium experience- Free to Play: We use advertising to monetise the experience. There are no coins/gems/booster to pay for or timers. The free version of the game contains a lives system which is carefully balanced to be fair but that makes the game slightly harder than premium. Premium unlock: We offer a single iAP to unlock the game to a premium experience. The premium version contains no 3rd party ads and we remove the lives system. This game contains cross promotion for other Nitrome games and this is not removed with the IAP for removal of ads.

Aim over the mouth of the shaft, let go, and the pick drops into the dark. It bounces off stone, chops whatever it rests on, and carves its own crooked cavern downward. Every contact costs it a point of health, so each drop is a small, finite life: the deeper it goes, the closer it is to breaking. You steer the fall. Tilt the phone or drag a finger sideways and the pick drifts that way: around a gas pocket, out from under a rumbling boulder, away from the glow of a lava pool. Let it fall into lava and the pick melts. The drop ends on the spot and everything it carried burns. Your strikes are timed. A marker sweeps a red, yellow and green bar. Tap in the green and the pick slams down for a perfect strike: at least triple damage and a point of health back. Yellow is a good hit. Red is a miss, and a miss costs health and the combo. Keep the perfect streak going and the ore you collect is multiplied, up to double. Some rock will not yield to the tool you are holding. A stone pick bounces off gold and tells you so. That is what bombs are for: craft them at the Powder House, throw one mid-fall while time slows to a crawl, and open a path through rock your pick cannot touch. Deeper down, a warden gate seals the whole shaft. Break it before its timer runs out, or the drop ends there. Whatever you haul up belongs to the village. Stone, copper, iron, gold and gems go into the forge for a harder pickaxe, into the market for coins, and into buildings that change the next run: more health, sharper hits, more bombs in your pocket, richer seams. Progress is gated by material, not by grinding: an iron pick needs iron, and iron is found, not bought. A forged pick does not last forever. After six to eight drops it shatters, and you dig with the tier below until you reforge it. Ten pickaxes, each drawn differently, show what you have built: whetstone edges, bands on the handle, rune gems in the head. Carve runes at the Rune Altar, build a Launchpad, and take the pick to two more worlds, the light gravity of the Pale Moon and the heavy pull of Cinder. Everything is drawn from code: hard-pixel lettering, procedural stone and ore, sounds synthesised for this game. No account or login needed, and the game plays without a connection. Pickfall is free to play with ads. Watch a short video for a ×2 haul, an extra bomb, a second chance when your pick breaks, or double what your village dug while you were away. One in-app purchase, No Ads, removes every ad and turns those bonuses into free buttons. Drop it. Watch it work. ---