WAXLIGHT

One candle. Three keys. One door between you and the dawn.

A hand-generated horror escape in your browser. Every house is a maze, every maze is hunting something. Keep the wick burning and your feet moving.

The Night's Offerings

Procedural housesEvery game carves a new looping maze of rooms from your seed — no two escapes are the same.
The flame is your lifeYour candle lights the rooms and hides you. Candles refuel it; the dark makes the Smother faster.
A creature that huntsThe Smother pathfinds room to room, lunges when your light gutters, and quickens as the wick burns down.
Runs in the browserPlain HTML + WebGL. No install, no account. Keyboard and mouse, or thumb sticks on phones.
All sound conjured in codeDrone, heartbeat, and chimes are synthesized live with the Web Audio API.

Find 3 brass keys glowing in the rooms.
All three unseal the red rune door on the south wall — walk through it to escape and win.
You lose if the Smother catches you, or if the wick timer hits 0:00.
Score: key +100, candle +25, escape +300 & 2× remaining time.

W A S D walk · Shift creep quietly
Mouse look around (click to capture the mouse)
E light a candle on a table (+flame, +25)
P / Esc pause · R restart after a run
Phone: left thumb-stick moves, right side of the screen looks, E button interacts.