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Candlelight: Lament cover art

Candlelight: Lament

正方形劳伦斯 · Gamirror Games · 2024-08-05

Steam

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 06, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 06, 2024 (Mac)

Ed broke the curfew to visit his friends in order to find out the truth of his granddaughter's disappearance, but the truth was far more terrible than he thought.

93%
positive of 118 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (38 reviews).
  • · Top 55% of 15,391 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 118 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.18 at GameBillet (2025-09-30)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 47 of 61 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
363620242026Week of 2024-08-06: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-08-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-13: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$5.182024-08-012026-06-112024-08-01 — best price $9.992024-08-13 — best price $7.652024-08-20 — best price $8.982024-09-02 — best price $9.992024-09-24 — best price $8.392024-10-09 — best price $9.992024-11-01 — best price $7.992024-11-22 — best price $7.992024-12-03 — best price $7.652024-12-26 — best price $9.992025-01-07 — best price $6.322025-01-13 — best price $7.992025-02-03 — best price $7.652025-03-03 — best price $7.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-04-04 — best price $6.322025-06-27 — best price $9.992025-07-04 — best price $5.992025-07-19 — best price $6.992025-07-25 — best price $6.192025-08-05 — best price $6.992025-08-19 — best price $6.712025-08-29 — best price $5.812025-09-29 — best price $5.452025-10-07 — best price $6.942025-10-16 — best price $6.632025-10-30 — best price $6.992025-11-12 — best price $6.992025-11-20 — best price $9.992025-11-30 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $5.452026-01-08 — best price $7.652026-02-10 — best price $9.992026-03-04 — best price $7.652026-03-13 — best price $9.992026-03-25 — best price $9.892026-04-08 — best price $5.422026-04-25 — best price $7.892026-06-11 — best price $9.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
60.4%
earned "Clean Freak"
13.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

2D1980sDramaRetro1990'sGothicPuzzleClickerMysteryAdventure

Census log

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

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