Underplayed Gems

List: Game of Candles (2022)

List: Game of Candles cover
Developer
Jeff Mathis
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie
Rating
5.0 of 5, 13 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 31 minutes
Where to get it
Steam
The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A tense mix of dark humor and dread as you frantically multitask survival tasks in a twisted, comedic horror house.

darkly funnytenseatmosphericdifficultpsychological horrorstrategyperma deathdark humor

What players say

Players compare it to FNAF, monitoring rooms and placing candles by listening for sound cues. The scares come from a creepy grandma and baby, but some want more graphical options like v-sync to fix frame drops.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.