I can honestly say its a breath of fresh air in the candlelike genre. when i was on my last 10 minutes of candle and i started taking tick damage from the heat of the candle burning me- I truly felt immersed. with all the news about bad work ethic and industry practices, the dev made a bold decision to stand up to it by not giving a ♥♥♥♥ and never releasing any patches, it earned my respect immediately. the spoooky enemies, shocking twist, plus the emphasis on finite resource management really pull the experience together. most ideas are stolen, but not this one. the dev has also given a generous 7% cut to the young boy, Jeremy, who came up with the idea for the sensational: the candle. though it is rated R, if you want a VR optional, hollywood MOCAP, lobby, FPS, rouge-like horror game WITH anti cheat; the candle is the way to go. I know ill be pre-ordering my copy of the candle 2. lastly it makes me feel like a test tube baby.
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The Candle
by Candle Dev
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About This Game
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.
What players are saying
The main resource in The Candle is not the candle as one would think, but the invisible hunger and thirst meter, and it's absolutely unbearable. Incredible joke, awful game. Just as Jerma wanted it to. The Candle - Rated R. (All jokes aside, once you get into the rhythm and find ways to lessen the difficulty of the hunger and thirst mechanics, the game does get interesting and you start to have more fun, and i do believe that — just as Jerma divined it — "the speedrunners would eat [The Candle®] up so much")
♥♥♥♥ this game, this candle game, i hate its graphics, i hate its gameplay, i hate its soundtrack, i hate its characters. i hate video games. i hate the internet. i hate computers. i hate steam. ♥♥♥♥ electronics. fking hate this chair too.
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