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Developer(s) | Techway |
Artist(s) | miya |
Platform(s) | Yahoo! Mobage, Facebook, Naver, Niconico, Mixi, myGAMECITY |
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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.