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Out of Seats Studio · 2026 · Windows
Steam: 96 % positive of 427 reviews, as of Oct 28
Play as a candle warrior fighting to keep your flame alive in a world where fire means life and death. Steal wax from enemies to survive, wield your flame tactically in intense hack-and-slash combat, and uncover the dark secrets of a dormant wax factory filled with danger !
24 games that play like Candellum and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Hollow Knight, Nocturnal and Blue Fire.
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Plays and looks like Candellum
Close to it by gameplay and by look, so it appears in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Candellum
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Hollow Knight
96 % positive of 507,562
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Action
Nocturnal
91 % positive of 534
Shared: Action-Adventure · Exploration · Combat
Blue Fire
82 % positive of 1,921
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
Blasphemous
90 % positive of 55,513
Shared: Metroidvania · Action · Adventure
AWAKEN - Astral Blade
81 % positive of 1,144
Shared: Metroidvania · Action-Adventure · Exploration
Death's Door
92 % positive of 20,465
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
Candleman: The Complete Journey
90 % positive of 1,086
Shared: Linear · Action · Adventure
Dead Cells
96 % positive of 157,224
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action
Solateria
81 % positive of 760
Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Combat
Divinum
84 % positive of 619
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
Darksiders™
89 % positive of 8,584
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
Dust: An Elysian Tail
94 % positive of 14,279
Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Exploration
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- F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch86 % positive of 6,724Shared: Metroidvania · Action-Adventure · Exploration
- The Vagrant89 % positive of 8,320Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Fantasy
- Metamorphos79 % positive of 477Shared: Hack and Slash · Action-Adventure · Combat
- Infernax93 % positive of 2,150Shared: Metroidvania · Fantasy · Action
- Hell is Us82 % positive of 4,662
- Moonscars82 % positive of 1,246Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
- Stray Blade69 % positive of 307Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Action-Adventure
- Darksiders Warmastered Edition87 % positive of 14,115Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Fantasy
- Lost Ruins85 % positive of 4,662Shared: Hack and Slash · Metroidvania · Combat
- Deepening Fire69 % positive of 576Shared: Metroidvania · Action-Adventure · Exploration
- UNSIGHTED93 % positive of 1,890Shared: Metroidvania · Exploration · Action
- Angeline Era95 % positive of 660Shared: Hack and Slash · Action-Adventure · Exploration
By look
Looks like Candellum
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Death's Door
92 % positive of 20,465
Adore
86 % positive of 398
Hades II
95 % positive of 115,525
The Last Campfire
97 % positive of 17,812
Gunfire Reborn
93 % positive of 88,632
Wild Woods
77 % positive of 1,808
Cult of the Lamb
94 % positive of 113,292
Battle Chasers: Nightwar
86 % positive of 5,597
Figment 2: Creed Valley
94 % positive of 917
No Rest for the Wicked
80 % positive of 67,041
Spiral Knights
83 % positive of 24,267
Order of the Sinking Star
95 % positive of 3,140
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- Dungeons 393 % positive of 12,659
- Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest89 % positive of 737
- Hell Clock83 % positive of 3,619
- Epistory - Typing Chronicles93 % positive of 4,043
- TUNIC90 % positive of 16,920
- Far Far West95 % positive of 32,721
- Shape of Dreams88 % positive of 16,606
- Dungeons 485 % positive of 2,414
- Hob87 % positive of 4,688
- Lost in Random: The Eternal Die84 % positive of 784
- Farever75 % positive of 9,190
- COCOON94 % positive of 8,091
At a glance
What games like Candellum have in common
- The tags they share most often with Candellum: Metroidvania (19 of 24), Hack and Slash (13) and Action-Adventure (12).
- They came out between 2010 and 2026, none of them after Candellum (2026).
- Best rated by Steam players: Dead Cells (96 % positive of 157,224).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.