Beacon Bend

Turn mirrors and prisms to bend a lighthouse beam round rocks and through coloured glass until every harbour beacon wakes up.

That's the only thing to do: pick a mirror or a prism and turn it. The beam swings round with it, runs out across the water along its new path, and whatever it reaches lights up. One tap, one click or one key a move, and when the last beacon catches, the level is done.

• The light is the toy. Turn a mirror and the beam sweeps through a half circle before it settles, glinting off the glass and shimmering on the sea under it. Every piece rings its own note.
• One new idea a harbour: mirrors, then rocks that stop the light, then prisms that split one beam into two, then coloured glass, where a red beacon only wakes to red light.
• Mistakes explain themselves. Light on rock gives a dull puff; the wrong colour fizzes out against the glass. No pop-ups, no paragraphs.
• Four harbours, four skies: Calm Cove at dusk, Skerry Sound under a high moon, Prism Reach beneath the northern lights, Glasswater at dawn, each with its own lighthouse, boats and gulls.
• A harbour chart that fills with light: each solved level is a lit beacon on the coast, and the harbours ahead wait in the dark.
• Stars for neat answers: three if you match the fewest turns possible, checked by a solver for every level. Undo and restart are instant, and a hint costs the third star.
• Keeper Wren, a wren in a keeper's cap, who watches from her ledge, lifts her lantern when a level comes alight, and knows you when you come back.

24 hand-made levels, 72 stars, 12 achievements, and a leaderboard for your stars.

Calm and unhurried: no timers, no lives, no fail state, and soft chimes over distant surf.

Beacon Bend is free to play, all of it. There is no paid content and there are no ads.

Plays on desktop and phones: a mouse, one thumb, or the keyboard alone (arrows to pick a piece, Space to turn it), landscape or portrait. Your progress is saved to your Wavedash account.