Underplayed Gems

Candle Daemon (2024)

Candle Daemon cover
Developer
Towndarktales
Platforms
Windows, Linux
Genres
Adventure, Indie
Rating
3.9 of 5, 27 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 3.3 hours
Where to get it
Steam

How it feels

You explore a fractured, liminal space between worlds, solving a ghostly disappearance through quiet reflection and gentle discovery.

adventuremysteriousatmosphericcontemplativeotherworldlymellowstory-drivenmelancholic

What players say

Players praise the dark anime art and cutscenes but find the controls clunky and the combat stiff, with unintuitive button combos. The story is a side chapter set before Witch 2, and while some enjoy the genre shift to action, others find it disjointed and prefer the earlier puzzle-based games. Performance issues and bugs are noted.

More games like this

More by Towndarktales

This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like playing and it picks from the whole catalog, or browse by platform and genre.