Unlight

Unlight
Developer(s)Techway
Artist(s)miya
Platform(s)Yahoo! Mobage, Facebook, Naver, Niconico, Mixi, myGAMECITY
Release
October 12, 2010
    • Yahoo! Mobage
      • JP: October 12, 2010 (2010-10-12)
    • Facebook
      • WW: May 28, 2015 (2015-05-28) (English)
    • niconico
      • JP: February 6, 2013 (2013-02-06)
    • mixi
      • JP: January 16, 2014 (2014-01-16)
    • my GAMECITY
      • JP: March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06)
Genre(s)Card battle

Unlight (アンライト~Unlight~) was a free-to-play collectible card battle and role-playing browser game developed by the Japanese company Techway. With multiple language versions including Japanese, Chinese (both traditional and simplified), Korean, French, Thai, and English, the game boasts a playership of two million across all platforms (Facebook, Niconico, Naver, Yahoo! Mobage, Mixi, and Koei Tecmo's myGAMECITY). It is the top engrossing Facebook game in Asia.[1] In 2014, the game won gold in the foreign browser game category for the 2014 Game Star award at the Taipei Game Show.[2] Set in a "medieval gothic" world, the player assumes the role of an automaton given life by a "Saint of Flame" to recover the memories of warriors who have died in another world.[1][3]

The international English version on Facebook, itself a merger of the French, Thai, and Asian (English) versions, closed on June 30, 2016. After releasing the mobile spinoff Unlight: SchizoChronicle, Techway announced the suspension of the original browser game - the Chinese versions were closed on September 7, 2017 while the Japanese version followed suit on October 18 the same year. The spinoff Unlight: SchizoChronicle closed a year later. On July 30, 2019, the source code of the original Unlight was released under the CC-BY-ND license, allowing fan communities to run their own versions of the game.

  1. ^ a b Priestman, Chris (2015-07-17). "Unlight's Producer On How A Gothic Card Battler Got So Popular In Asia". Siliconera.
  2. ^ "「アンライト〜Unlight〜」がコーエーの「my GAMECITY」でサービス開始". 4Gamer.net.
  3. ^ "A New Game on Facebook: Unlight from Gloczus, Inc". Anime News Network. 2015-06-02.