Read the tape. Ride the wave. Die by leverage.
GOD CANDLE is a real-time trading roguelite. You get a $1,000,000 book and ten trading days to retire. Each day is a 45-second sprint through market hours — go long, go short, lever up, and clear the closing-bell target, or the margin clerk shuts the desk down.
Every run is a different market
- Choose your ticker each morning from a shortlist with volatility and behavior readouts — ten of them, from sleepy $GLD to pure-chaos $GME.
- Nine market-event bosses: Earnings Day, FOMC, Squeeze Watch, Flash Crash, Melt-Up, Quad Witching, Circuit Breaker, OPEX Pin, and The Bear.
- Ten daily market conditions on top — Volatility Storm, Algo Chop, Data Blackout, Gamma Ramp, Zero Commission Day, and more.
- Shuffled boss order, jittered targets, rerolled tickers. No two runs play the same.
Build a gloriously broken trader
- Four classes, each with an exclusive two-power kit: The Chad rides 5x leverage, The Quant sees six ticks into the future, The Cockroach refuses to die, The Insider gets a free tip line that rings four times a day.
- 29 relics and 16 powers. Draft one of three desk tools after every bell, then shop for relics and upgrades. Perma-install tools with Street Cred to use them from day one in future runs.
- Relics that reward a style — scalping, diamond-handing, hot streaks — and light up when you pair the right ones.
- Print the GOD CANDLE: a divine, screen-shaking vertical candle straight into your position.
Read the tape, not the headline
- Earnings follow guidance, not the EPS print. A beat can tank. A miss can rip.
- Every ticker hides a good, mid, or bad book. You infer it from noisy sector-relative signals — and some of those signals are cooked.
- Draw stop orders straight onto the chart. Trim, flip, and scale mid-tape.
- Optional side contracts every morning, paid at the bell. Tempting. Never mandatory.
The floor has opinions
- 25 in-day floor events with real stakes: take the bribe, buy the hot tip, ride the pump, park cash in real estate, wine, or art — decisions that pay off, or detonate, the next day.
- Rare gold JACKPOT and red DISASTER events that can make or end a run.
Then do it again, harder
- Four difficulties from Rookie to Prop Desk, then Ascension on top.
- A seeded Daily Gauntlet — same market for everyone, every day.
- Endless mode for when ten days stops being enough.
- 29 achievements, Career records per class, a Hall of Fame, and a leaderboard.
- A Trophy Room of ten chart skins bought with Street Cred.
Built for it
- Procedural synth soundtrack and per-action SFX, synthesized in-engine.
- Colorblind palette, UI scaling, and toggles for screen shake, extra effects, and CRT scanlines.
- Full controller support with device-aware prompts and seamless switching between gamepad and keyboard/mouse.
- Steam Cloud saves. Runs on a laptop.
Every death is your own greed. Retire forever — or get liquidated.
Learn the desk, then take the risk
Practice long, short, closing a position, and leverage at your own pace in a guided Practice Desk. Slow the live tape to 0.5x or freeze the clock to study the chart and your tools. The Quant’s passive foresight now shows its stated six ticks instead of twice that range. Each run ends with a clear target-and-equity debrief and a direct retry with the same strategy.