The Wickie

The Wickie is a mystery game set in 1936 on a remote island station in the Outer Hebrides. You play as Bill Fisher, a replacement assistant whose lonely assignment leads into a mystery involving control and a slow cosmic unraveling. Across five handcrafted days, you explore and piece together what is happening, using clues, logic and your own notes to find your way without maps or markers.

Explore the island

You travel on foot through tunnels, along walkways and broken bridges, across rusted cable lines and sea routes, and into derelict facilities and sealed rooms. The interconnected world stretches from storm-swept cliffs to a forgotten village. Physical documents, posters, tapes and diagrams carry information without quest pop-ups or dialogue trees, and the game has a fully integrated 1930s radio station with curated music, news and strange broadcasts.

Solve environmental puzzles

Puzzles are integrated into the environment and include mechanical, spatial and psychological challenges. You may reroute a skull through industrial conveyors to open a door, decode binary systems or manipulate magnetic lifts while something stalks you in the dark. The world also contains switches and control panels.

Face the machines

C.A.R.L. units and other, more dangerous creatures guard areas, process cargo and enforce “safety protocols.” They move through the world rather than appearing only in scripted scares: some may help you, while others hunt you. Not everything in the shadows is mechanical.

Story and endings

The story unfolds through exploration and environmental clues, with three distinct endings shaped by your choices, failures and the truths you uncover. The atmosphere draws on Lovecraft, Machen and weird British horror.