Wickwood

Wickwood is a turn based roguelike built for ten minute runs. You are a lantern bearer descending seven floors of a candle lit forest to relight the Wickwood heart. Nothing moves until you do.

Oil is the whole game. It is your health, it is how far you can see, and it drains one point every single turn you are alive. Swinging the lantern at something costs extra. Flasks, shrines and the oil that spills out of a dying enemy are the only way back up. Standing still is not safe, and neither is running.

Every enemy shows you the exact tile it will move to next, so a bad turn is your fault and not the dice. Moths walk straight at you. Stumps freeze the moment you look down a line at them and lurch two tiles when you look away. Spiders leap and leave webbing that costs you a turn. Hollows line up a lane and charge down the whole thing.

You pick one relic at the start and it shapes the run: a bigger tank, harder strikes, a wick that only drinks every other turn, a trail of fire behind your heels. One pouch slot holds one consumable. There is a second relic offer at depth four, and no second chances anywhere else.

Death is permanent. The run counter and your best depth are kept. Reaching the heart is not the end of it, you still have to stand on the thing for three turns while the wood wakes up around you.