Wishfall: Careful what you wish for

A crater-ringed island beneath a cracked sky, where wishes fall as stars and are granted, literally and at a price, to whoever claims them.

Co-op survival-craft · In development at No-Name Game Studio

The World

The stars are the wishes

Folk say you wish on a falling star. On Wishfall it works the other way round.

Every wish ever made rises and lodges in the sky. Since the Ammathi sang the star Ilun down, the sky has leaked those wishes onto this one island, through the Seam: a pale crack across the vault that glitters with caught debris by day and flares when a Great Fall is coming loose.

Each fallen star grants its wish to whoever claims it. A hot crater is a fortune. Left alone it cools, then sours, and the Sour sends its creatures toward the nearest people.

The sky never strikes what is already made. So chasers build.

A ship approaches a crater-ringed island at dusk. Terraced crater walls rise in rings toward a glowing centre, and a pale crack full of floating rock spans the sky.

Wishfall from the sea, beneath the Seam. Pre-production concept art.

Several a day Shards

Small drops close by. A quick detour on the way home, even alone.

Every few days Stars

A crater that rewrites the land around it into a living biome. Reach it before it cools.

Announced days ahead Great Falls

Wishes shared by thousands. They come down with an apex, and leave permanent land.

The Island

Five rings around one wound

From the coast inward, every ring is older, stranger and closer to the Cradle. The further in you go, the stronger the Glare, a radiance that drains life.

Chasers hurry along the wet boards of a harbour at dawn while a shard streaks down beyond the rooftops.
A shard falls beyond Landfall Quay. Pre-production concept art.
Ring I

Saltrim

Salt meadows, fishing coves and Landfall Quay, where every chaser begins. The sky here is kind: no Glare, and only the gentlest families fall.

Hearth starsSeer starsThe Roofwood
Landmarks
Landfall Quay, the Fenn Glass observatory, Morrow's Sour, the Roofwood
Wishes
To be safe. To know.
The Glare
Three chasers fight a towering kiln-bodied giant on a field of glowing cinders while burning shards rain from a stormy sky.
Great Fall I

The Kilnmother

Some wishes are shared by thousands. When one of them comes loose, it falls with its apex, the strongest of its family, and the land it hits stays changed for good.

The first is the Kilnmother, a body of Brandglass with a furnace for a belly, falling on Saltrim.

Three days of omens

No Great Fall arrives unannounced. Read the sky at the Fenn Glass, and the landing circle shrinks.

Day one

The Seam brightens

The crack across the sky flares, and every chaser on the island looks up before breakfast.

Day two

Shards in its colour

Small stars fall in the colour of the coming family. Collect them, and learn what it wants.

Day three

The animals flee

Native creatures leave the landing ground, and the sky starts to hum.

I · The Kilnmother II · Unrevealed III · Unrevealed IV · Unrevealed V · Unrevealed
Attunement

Born from the stars

Stand in the overflow of a Great Fall and it changes you. What you become is set by your intent in that moment: reach in, watch, or ask.

Those who reached in

Forgeborn

A star-forged body that hits harder the longer it keeps moving. Forgeborn don't stop, because stopping is when it catches up with them.

Mentor: Joss HarrowThe first person born from the stars in living memory. Her left arm is turning to clear glass.
Those who watched

Glinthunter

They see the flaws in a badly made wish, and mark them. Every wish is a promise with a crack in it somewhere; a Glinthunter finds it first.

Mentor: Nim VargaCharter scout who mapped the Ring II border and collects Lanterner relics.
Those who asked

Chorister

They draw sky-circles on the ground and channel the sky through them. The Hush calls it theft. Choristers call it listening.

Mentor: Tobin AshbyBroke with the Hush to teach himself. His mother calls him a thief of the sky.
All three burn Kindle, the granted wish alight inside them. Attunement takes payment too.

Joss Harrow no longer feels hunger.

Media

From the island

Pre-production concept art from the studio's visual exploration. These are references for the world, not in-game captures.

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