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Candlehead cover art

Candlehead

Ammonite Design Studios Ltd · 2022-10-17

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 17, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Explore a dark and eerie first person folk horror game where your doom flickers in the form of a candle barely visible through the dusky gloom.

Candlehead is a 2022 Action, Adventure, and Indie game priced at $0.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 to 50,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (60% of 20 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-13

0
playing now
60%
positive of 20 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-13 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 125% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 77% of 26,939 Action games in the census by review count.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2023-07-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 2 of 4 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220222026Week of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$8.99$0.492022-10-172026-10-082022-10-17 — best price $7.192022-11-22 — best price $7.192022-12-23 — best price $6.292023-01-06 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-04-03 — best price $4.992023-05-15 — best price $4.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-07-31 — best price $4.992023-10-30 — best price $0.492023-11-21 — best price $0.492023-12-21 — best price $0.492024-03-14 — best price $0.492024-05-06 — best price $0.492024-06-17 — best price $0.492024-06-27 — best price $0.492024-07-29 — best price $0.492024-11-27 — best price $0.492024-12-20 — best price $0.492025-01-19 — best price $0.492025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-10-01 — best price $0.542025-12-19 — best price $0.492026-10-02 — best price $0.492026-10-08 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

DarkNoirActionHorrorStealthAdventureLore-RichAtmosphericExplorationDark Fantasy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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