A chaotic, high-energy take on arcade dungeon crawling, wrapped up in a delightfully spooky setting.
The spook train does not stop this month, and I`m determined to keep digging up as many spooky, scary games as I can get my hands on. The thing is, after a head-scratching puzzler like last week`s featured game, I`m more in the mood for something a bit less pensive and a bit more smack-a-ghost-in-the-face. Enter Candies n` Curses, a sugary cute arcade rogue-lite with all the Halloween flare required for playability this month.
Candies n` Curses opens on a party full of kids playing truth or dare. Molli Pop is one tough cookie, and she would never choose truth like a pansy, so her friends dare her to go into the town`s haunted mansion. Full of the adrenaline and stupidity that only comes with youth, she agrees and bikes down the road to the terribly imposing house of horrors. It`s much scarier than she expected, and once she`s through the front door, a sinister breeze blows it closed...
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