Lightwire
Short description
In Lightwire, you play as a young weapons engineer trying to save your dying home planet. You must harvest enough energy and resources from various energy nodes throughout the galaxy in order to satisfy the growing demand back home. Use your math skills to strategically fire lasers in order to get the highest score.
- Developer
- nP Studios
- Publisher
- nonPareil Institute
- Release
- Thu, Aug 24, 2017
- Price
- n/a
- Reviews
- 1
- Positive
- 100%
- Followers
- 63
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Strategy
- Tags
No revenue estimate: this needs both a review count and a launch price, and at least one of them is missing.
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Media
History
Tracking started Aug 16, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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