For iPhone and Android
Glims of Lysø
Tend an island of candle folk.
Every keeper gets a floating island of their own. Give sparks, kindling and seedpods each day, and watch the glims build, dream and grow old. It gets harder.
Includes random-item purchases: chance decides what a bought great starstone or great comet becomes. For keepers 16 and over.
The island
A small island in the sky, and it is yours
Two glims, little candle folk with a flame each, live by a hearth, a pond, two bushes and three young trees. They gather berries and wood, build huts, fall in love, quarrel, dream and grow old. You are their keeper. You never steer them. You give.
A keeper's day
A day of tending
The tray
Each day it gathers sparks, kindling and seedpods, included. Each one you give warms the hearth.
The hearth
While it burns, new glims are lit and nobody goes cold. In embers, the cold comes and the glims gutter out one by one. Any offering lights it again.
It gets harder
At first a visit a day is enough. The hearth burns faster as the island ages.
The book
When the last flame goes out, the island's story ends. Its book stays, and a new island is included.
Starstones and comets
Fate decides what falls
Starstones and comets fall now and then while you watch. Most fall plainly; some turn kind, strange or harsh.
Great starstones and great comets can be bought: twice as strong, never food, warmth or a new glim, so paying never makes an island last longer. A harsh great comet can end a glim's life, in at most 0.8% of them. The odds are shown before every purchase, and the shop stays off until a grown-up switches it on.
Where it began
Lysø, the island everyone watches
On 23 October 2026 one island opened at theglims.com with two glims, Gnist and Lue, and not a single hut. A server runs it day and night. Everyone sees the same island, nobody steers it, and the one thing anyone can do is make an offering.
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The small print
- No ads, no tracking, no account. Your island lives on the game's server under a random id the app makes.
- Care notices about your island, off until you switch them on.
- A recovery code moves your island to another phone, iPhone or Android.
- Let your island go whenever you like: everything of yours is deleted from the server.
- Help: [email protected]. Privacy and terms: theglims.com.