
The Candle - Rated R. As night falls and a storm rises over the annual county carnival, you are visited by a mysterious spirit. Tasked with laying his soul to rest, you must brave his long dilapidated manor and avoid the horrifying remnants of his estate staff.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 1 → 0.14/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Your candle burns in real-time over up to 4 hours
Once its light goes out, it cannot be lit again
Explore the decrepit manor and rummage through drawers for loot
Avoid 4 unique spooky scary monsters on your quest to reach the hidden chamber
Play 6 different minigames at the carny's stalls for tickets
Exchange your tickets at the carnival office for fun prizes
Make allies or build rivalries with those who remain
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Esc / Spacebar: Settings + Inventory
WASD: Move
Shift: Sprint
E: Interact
Left Click: Throw / Fire Weapon
Right Click: Inspect
Right Click + F: Blow Out Candle (If Lit)
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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I was gonna talk ♥♥♥♥ about it but decided not to because there's fifty dog breeds that are in the pre-game lobby that you can like play with and pet and feed and stuff. Really distracted me from my RPGHS. (Reverse Gravitational Pull Headache Syndrome) ((It affects over 50 million Americans)) Thanks for the dogs.
bought it as a joke long time ago, I respect that they made the jerma bit into an actual game but I thought it'd be more about having a time limit each run during the exploration in the manor compared to getting in and out of the place to grind currency and having a hunger bar for some reason also the candle being lit doesnt change much inside the manor visual wise I feel like its still really dark at least without it Im free to run
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
thank you dev for the code drop x
wow
Really the best horror game ive ever played in my life....i dont ever wanna touch this game ever again in my life
GOTY 2025
I know this is just a fan game, but in terms of horror, I'd say the game really nails it. The effects, the lone candle lighting your path, the character designs and [i]that sound[/i]. Man, [spoiler]those maids were crazy[/spoiler]. I also adored the voice-acting, especially the annoying kids outside. Every step in that dark mansion had me on edge, from start to finish. Genuinely appreciate the wax trail, as I have very a poor sense of direction. However, as anyone who played this game for ~5 minutes can tell you, the gameplay loop SUCKS. ~2+ hours of fairly intense grinding just to fully restart (a FULL restart mind you) on death is nothing short of evil. Yeah, that's right, the grind isn't mindless either, you have to focus up to play the dumb carnie games lest you lose your precious coins and $10 by extension. After that, you have to wander around the mansion and risk restarting. The looming threat of tedium DID add to the stress/tension/atmosphere though, so I guess there's a silver-lining to everything.
patch your stupid game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks dude
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