Lantern Bay: Café Mysteries

About the game

Lantern Bay: Café Mysteries is a cosy merge game set in a sleepy harbour town. Merge cups, cakes and seaside treasures to serve your neighbours, bring the Seaside Café back to life and restore the café, the pier, the lighthouse and the garden, one secret at a time. Coming to iPhone, iPad and Android, in English, Swedish, Spanish, German and French.

Features

Merge, serve, restore: Tap a generator, merge matching items up five tiers and fill your neighbours' orders to rebuild the café.
Four places to bring back: The café, the pier, the lighthouse and the garden each have their own treasures to merge and their own story.
Family secrets: Letters, a journal and small story moments about Elena's family unfold as you restore the town.
New things every week: Daily tasks and weekly events keep the harbour lively, with no pressure to come back.
Cosy by design: A warm hand-painted look and gentle music. Streaks pause when you miss a day.
Five languages: English, Swedish, Spanish, German and French.

Concept art

Concept art explores the intended look; it is separate from captured gameplay.

Painted harbour town in late golden light: a honey-timber café with a striped awning and glowing lanterns on a stone quay, boats on turquoise water and a cream lighthouse on a green headland — Concept artLantern Bay at golden hour

The Seaside Café on its pier with a hanging sign, a striped awning, flower pots and lanterns, boats and a lighthouse behind — Concept artThe Seaside Café on the pier

An illustrated parchment map titled Lantern Bay with a lighthouse headland, a harbour with a wooden pier and boats, the café, small houses, a terraced garden with a fountain and a compass — Concept artThe harbour town of Lantern Bay

Elena, a young café owner with dark wavy hair, a cream blouse, a mint apron and a lavender sash, standing with her hands clasped and smiling — Concept artElena

Rows of items growing from simple to fancy: coffee cups, cakes, seaside finds, café furniture and plants and flowers — Concept artMerge chains, from simple to special

A merge board of cups, cakes, plants and shells on a wooden tray in front of the harbour, two glowing cups about to merge — Concept artA style study for the merge board

Concept artA logo idea

Story

Elena inherits her gran's old café on the harbour of Lantern Bay, together with a letter and an old brass key. Every order she serves and every corner she restores brings the neighbours closer, and uncovers another piece of her family's secrets.

Manuscript

The harbour

Morning in Lantern Bay. Elena has not been back to the harbour since she was little.

The letter

Then Gran's letter arrives, with an old brass key: "The café is yours now, sweetheart. Look after it. And look closer than I ever let you."

The closed café

The door of the Seaside Café creaks open on dust sheets and a dark counter. It needs more than a dusting.

One cup at a time

Across the bay, the lighthouse is dark. Elena ties her apron and sets down a cup. One cup at a time.

Art direction

Bright, richly painted seaside: warm timber, cream paper, turquoise water and golden lantern light, with coral, pink, mint and lavender accents, strong depth and crisp outlines, lit by a low afternoon sun.