Veillombre

Veillombre is a multiplayer horror game in which you search a house for the key to its exit while managing the candles on your heads. Without a flame, you cannot run, search or rescue anyone. Wax melts, traitors can blow out candles, and monsters can siphon their light. An ally who falls in a dark room disappears; to bring them back, someone must carry a flame to their body.

Search the house

You use an action wheel to open and search drawers, barricade doors, hide, trade or pretend to trade. You can find matches, candles, planks and trinkets to sell to a merchant, as well as the one key that opens the exit. Once the door opens, a bell tolls and a countdown begins: escape before it ends, or the house keeps you.

Watch the windows

A creature waits behind the panes, and its breathing carries farther as it approaches. Draw the curtain or barricade the window before it gets inside; once inside, it is invisible. Yellow eyes behind a floor grate signal that something is watching from the vents. Do not linger, or nail a plank over the grate.

Choose your doors

A closed door muffles sound and holds creatures back, but may also trap something in the room with you. Looking through the keyhole takes two seconds. A door barricade provides immediate refuge, but anyone can use it, making it a possible trap set by a traitor.

Traitors and votes

In Murder Mode, you can blow out another player's candle from behind, knock out someone who is alone in the dark, take their belongings, trap a drawer or escape through the vents. You can then accuse the others. A vote can end the game: an unmasked impostor is executed, while an innocent player who is exiled returns as the Monster.

Become the Monster

If you are unjustly exiled, you return as the Monster. Outside under the moonlight, you can see in the dark, but light burns you. Force a window, siphon the players' flames and snuff them out one by one.

Speak carefully

Voices carry according to distance, and are barely audible through a wall. Dead players can speak only to other dead players. Fear can also give you away: a pounding heart in the dark may be enough for others to hear you.