Studio

Lightwood Games

51 games2015—2022

Lightwood Games is a small, independent game developer based in Perton, Staffordshire.

The company is a specialist developer of puzzles games and began developing games for iOS in 2010. The first app released by Lightwood Games – Word Search Party – was launched later that year. It has now been downloaded nearly two million times.

More recently, the company has focused on producing word games and logic puzzles for home and portable consoles, and is delighted to have been able to bring their titles to PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo consoles.

Lightwood has partnered with Conceptis Ltd, the world’s leading supplier of logic puzzles, to provide puzzle content for a number of titles, including Sudoku, Pic-a-Pix, Fill-a-Pix and Link-a-Pix games.

Through partnerships with publishers Rainy Frog, Starsign and Eastasiasoft, several games have been localized and published in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

Lightwood Games is now authorised to publish on all major console platforms and has new titles in the pipeline for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X|S.

Lightwood Games is an independent game developer, owned and operated by a husband-and-wife team. Katherine and Chris finally tied the knot in Las Vegas in October 2013!