Pearls of Wisdom – Light Up Research

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Factsheet

Platform: Steam

Release date: Spring 2026

Website: https://www.lightupresearch.com/pearls-of-wisdom

Social Media:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lightupresearch.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@lightupresearch
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4170090/Pearls_of_Wisdom/

Description

Pearls of Wisdom is a rogue-like mindfulness deck-builder where you play inspiring quotes, combine power-up emblems and do real world side quests. Feel good after you’re done playing, not just while you’re playing; real world mindfulness side quests give you in-game bonuses and encourage breaks and balanced play.

Features

Play cards from a deck of thoughtful and inspiring quotes
Match keywords and themes to create enough pearls (your score) to progress
Collect and combine emblems with special effects to get higher scores
Do real world mindfulness side quests for in-game bonuses
Rogue-like gameplay with randomised runs and progressively more challenging levels
Level up and improve your cards
Make strategic choices to build your deck and emblems
Unlock cards, emblems and characters
High replayability with millions of combinations
Single player, 19 levels, 100 cards, 151 emblems (+ secret emblems?), 100 unique side quests