Coming to iPhone
Wickmate is a premium chess game for people who'd rather not doomscroll: daily puzzles, a campaign through the dark, and a little candle who teaches you as you go.
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The game
Every day brings five hand-arranged puzzles, then an endless Climb that grows with you. Positions come from real games (millions of them, drawn from the Lichess open database), and when you're stuck, hints start with the idea, not the answer.
The campaign
The Last Light is a kingdom of guttered lanterns. Sixty-four levels wind down eight chapters of painted road, and every board you win lights another lantern along it. At the end of each road, a keeper waits in the dark.
PLAYS AT 200 ELO
The first flame you'll face. Reckless, eager, beatable. The door into the dark.
PLAYS AT 800 ELO
Halfway down the kingdom, where the road sinks and the light turns cold.
PLAYS AT 1600 ELO
The last keeper on the last road. Patient, precise, and waiting.
Your teacher
Openings are taught as ideas: what the moves are for, played out on a live board with Wick narrating. Try the wrong move and nothing is lost. The board simply waits while he explains. You cannot fail a lesson, and every lesson replays whenever you want it back.
“Minutes here this week — instead of scrolling.”
That's the only number Wickmate brags about. It counts the time you spend here and shows it to you plainly: minutes that went to something you chose, instead of a feed. Time you'll be glad you spent.
There's no public date yet; it's still in polish. The waitlist hears first, and it's the only place we'll announce early access.
Free to play, with an energy meter: every attempt spends a charge, and charges refill on their own. A membership removes the limits. Final details and pricing will be on the App Store page at launch.
Members never see ads. That's a promise, not a tier. The free version may offer an optional watch-a-video refill, and nothing more: no banners, no interstitials, ever.
It's built for you. The campaign starts with how the pieces move and tops out at 1600 Elo. Wick teaches every lesson, you can't fail them, and you start wherever you actually are.
Not yet. Wickmate is single-player: you, the puzzles, and the keepers. If that changes, the waitlist hears first.
iPhone first. Nothing else is announced.
Join the waitlist and you'll hear when the first lantern is lit: early access, keeper reveals, nothing else.
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