Wicklight
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Survival. Free.
Wicklight is a game, free to play in the browser.
There is one rule, and everything else comes from it. A shade is safe in shadow and dies in light. You are the light. Your flame lights the room by real shadow casting: what you can see is recomputed from where you are standing, every single frame. So every pillar throws a hard wedge of darkness away from you, and that wedge is a corridor the things hunting you can walk straight up, untouched.
Move, and the safe ground moves with them. Standing still is what kills you, because your own shadows stop sweeping. The wick Your light burns down as you play, and the wax that refuels it is scattered out in the dark. That is the whole trade: the fuel is always in the place you cannot see. Running dry will not kill you; it just leaves you nearly blind while the room keeps filling up.
CHARGE Hold the button and the flame draws inward, giving up almost half your reach while you hold it. Let go and it all goes outward at once: a wall of light that races through the room and ignites everything it can genuinely see. It still stops dead at every pillar. A flare is a bigger sweep, never an exemption from the rule.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.