Candle
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $0.79.
- Reviews
- 78% of 1,185 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Buy now or wait
It is 84% off today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GT 220, Radeon HD 8400, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 91 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 7 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. On the same math Seasons after Fall ($1.49, scores 60) and Creepy Tale ($4.99, scores 66) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Candle
This site sampled 439 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
57% start to 10% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat).
Cite this score
Candle scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/420060/candleReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.