Light-Based 3D Platformer ‘Candleman’ Gets Final Set of Levels in Latest Update - Videogames Blogs

Light-Based 3D Platformer ‘Candleman’ Gets Final Set of Levels in Latest Update



In March of this year, Spotlightor Interactive’s atmospheric 3D platformer Candleman ($2.99) made its way to iOS courtesy of CMGE. Its main gimmick was that you played as a candle who could light its own wick which would provide light to dark areas and was needed to solve various puzzles you’d encounter during your journey. The catch was that your wick would only last for ten seconds of total lit time for each level, so the trick was to be as conservative as possible when using it so as not to run out. The game had been well-received on consoles and PC prior to the iOS release, and its simplistic control scheme translated really well to the touchscreen port. We enjoyed Candleman on iOS enough to give it our Game of the Week nod when it released. One oddity of the iOS version of Candleman was that it released with only about a third of the levels that were available on other platforms, with those additional levels supposedly coming sometime in the future. I wasn’t really sure why they’d done a split release like that, but given how cheap the game was on iOS compared to other platforms I figured they’d charge for the additional levels when they became available, and since those levels were already finished and released on other platforms I wasn’t worried about them just never showing up as is sometimes the case with other episodic releases. The following July an update arrived adding in the next portion of the game which spanned 3 chapt...
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