About Vigília do Lampião
Vigília do Lampião is a free browser game created by Leconcre, an independent developer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It’s a horde survival game with the haunts of Brazilian folklore: you spend a whole night in the backcountry facing creatures like the Cuca, the Saci, the Boitatá and the Mula sem Cabeça, until the sun rises at 15:00 game time. Your weapons attack on their own; you just walk and, at every level, choose how to get stronger. It runs on phones and computers, with nothing to install. The game is in beta: the first version came out on September 16, 2026, and 19 versions have come out since.
Who makes the game
Leconcre is an independent Brazilian developer from Rio de Janeiro. Vigília do Lampião is Leconcre’s own project, with no studio or publisher behind it. All the art is pixel art made for the game, and updates come out almost every day, many of them from feedback players send through the game itself and on Reddit. The folklore creatures and the traditional heroes keep their Brazilian names, with the story told in English.
What’s in the game
- 12 watchmen to play, each with their own weapon and style, like Watchman, Benzedeira, Gravedigger and Cangaceira.
- 29 creatures and 5 folklore bosses, among them The Cuca, Boitatá, The Pisadeira, Cabeça de Cuia and Alpha Lobisomem.
- 4 maps: Hillside Cemetery, Dry Sertão, Deep Woods and São Francisco Riverbank.
- 4 difficulties: Calm, Vigil, Nightmare and Blood Moon.
- A lantern that is your life, eyes watching from the dark, a house to keep lost souls safe, weather that changes every night, a procession of souls to lead to the sunrise and ten animated endings to find.
- Weapons that evolve and combine into fusions, daily missions, a Weekly Challenge, achievements and an almanac with every haunt.
- An online leaderboard with each player’s best run, and a leaderboard just for those who keep going into the endless night.
Where to play
Just open vigiliadolampiao.vercel.app/en in the browser on your phone or computer. There’s nothing to download, and you can install it as an app from the game’s Options screen. The changes in every version are in What’s new.
Contact
Press and content creators
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