Glow Trap

Move the light

Drag a lantern across your workbench and watch moths and fireflies drift into its glow. Click a visitor to inspect its species, rarity and value, then choose Capture specimen. The bug goes into your field case, and a new species becomes a museum exhibit.

Work out what each species wants

Arrange lights and lures on the workbench. Some visitors need a stronger lure, a dish inside matching light, or a lure left in shadow. Some avoid particular equipment. Mythic species need the right moon phase. A matching setup makes a species possible, never certain. At dawn, field notes show which condition was missing, or confirm a perfect setup when a visitor did not arrive.

Choose your upgrades

Spend your capture earnings at the dawn shop. Buy equipment or a larger field case, and upgrade lights and lures to level 3. Stronger lights widen their glow. Stronger lures improve the chances of Rare, Epic and Mythic visitors that use them. Beetles, spiders and ants each need their own habitat before you can capture them.

Build your museum

Collected bugs become moving bell-jar exhibits. Click a jar for a close view, or drag jars to rearrange a gallery. The full game holds 26 species in five families: moths, fireflies, beetles, spiders and ants. In the nursery, pair two captured species from one family to bring a hybrid visitor into your garden, then capture it too.

Glow Trap is in development. Screenshots show the current build, including beetles and the nursery. The animated clips show its moth and firefly content. Play with mouse and keyboard; there is no controller support. Windows and macOS versions are planned, and system requirements will be confirmed after testing.