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海鸥灯塔Seagull Lighthouse

In a lighthouse, you read letters, write back, and wait. Only a sea, a flock of seagulls that deliver bottles, and bottles that drift in from nowhere, carrying the lives of strangers inside. Your replies may shape their stories. In an age of anxiety and speed, let yourself slow down.

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About the Game

You are a lighthouse keeper. Living by the sea. Seagulls bring message bottles from afar, each one carrying a letter inside. The letters are written by strangers — a sick child, a laid-off office worker, someone who can't move on from a broken heart, someone who has forgotten what they have besides their face, and more.

They don't know these bottles will drift to the lighthouse. They just wrote, sealed them in bottles, and cast them into the sea. And you found them.

You can write back. In your own words, in your own tone. The sender will respond in turn. Or you can choose not to reply, and simply sell the letter to the town's journalist.

There are no countdowns, no daily quests, no leaderboards. You don't have to compete with anyone. No one is pushing you to level up. There is only a sea, a lighthouse, a flock of seagulls, and bottles that drift in at unknown times.

On days without letters, you can sit on the beach and watch the sea. The sea is never the same — sometimes calm, sometimes cloaked in fog, sometimes a sunset lays a golden path across the water. You can flip through the newspaper in the study, jot something down in the notebook, or write nothing at all. The lighthouse won't rush you. The seagulls won't rush you.

This is a game about waiting, about words, about allowing yourself to slow down in a world that never stops speeding up.

Just like this game itself — waiting, quietly, for those who will understand it to come and play.