Wickgloom: Candle-Lit Maze Horror

A candle-lit maze horror game: find three keys and the stairs on five dark floors while your candle burns down and a ghost hunts you by sound. Hide in wardrobes; tense, not gory. Free, no ads, no tracking.

Wickgloom is a candle-lit maze horror game: tense, not gory. Every floor is dark except for the small circle of your candle, and the candle is burning down.

Find three keys on each floor, then the stairs. Somewhere in the halls a ghost is listening.

• Five procedural floors: each run builds new mazes with loops, dead ends, keys, spare wax and wardrobes
• A shrinking light: walls block the candlelight and the radius shrinks as the wax burns; pick up candle stubs to refuel
• Hunted by sound: walking is quiet, running is loud; footsteps show as ripples so you see how far they carry
• Hiding: step into a wardrobe and the ghost loses you, unless it saw you get in
• A warning flame: the candle burns blue and your heart pounds when the ghost is close
• Two ghosts on floors four and five
• Map memory: walls and keys you have seen stay faintly drawn in the dark
• A guided first floor: controls stay on screen until you walk, short tips explain wardrobes, wax and the blue flame, and once all three keys are found an arrow points to the stairs

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• WASD / arrow keys: walk quietly
• Shift + move: run (fast, loud, burns wax)
• E or Space: hide in a wardrobe or step out
• Touch: drag on the screen as a stick, push it far to run; RUN toggles running; HIDE button
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.