Echo and the Lost Candles

Light the manor. Master the jump. Outsmart your own reflection.

"Echo and the Lost Candles" is a cozy puzzle-platformer about a small, kind ghost exploring a mysterious abandoned manor.

Echo cannot walk like an ordinary hero. Every move is a committed jump, and every room asks you to think ahead: choose a direction, create temporary spectral platforms, avoid living shadows, and light every lost candle before moving on.

The manor keeps changing as you travel deeper. Old clockwork wakes up. Wind pushes you across broken rooms. Ice preserves your momentum. Gravity turns upside down. Portals connect impossible spaces. Later, Echo gains a mirrored twin that copies every movement from the opposite side of the room. Golden candles respond to Echo, while violet candles can be lit only by the reflection - so one jump must solve two positions at once.

Current content

- 24 handcrafted levels across 6 chapters

- Fixed-direction jumps with one forgiving air jump

- Temporary ghost platforms created by tapping or clicking

- Moving, spring, breakable and phase-shifting platforms

- Wind currents, ice, portals and inverted gravity

- Moving shadows and clearly telegraphed shadow beams

- Light seals, gates and dangerous manor pulses

- A playable mirror double with reflection-only candles, seals and hazards

- Cozy volumetric candles, textured manor rooms and expressive ghost animation

- Ukrainian and English localization

- More chapters are already in development

Compete for the best time

Every ranked run is measured to the millisecond. Each level has its own global leaderboard, and every four-level chapter has a combined ranking based on your personal best times.

Choose a unique leaderboard name and keep your recovery code to restore your profile and records on another device. The game records level-start counts for balancing, but does not track how long you leave a level open.

For fair runs, pausing, hiding the browser tab, or switching to another app restarts the current attempt. Gameplay uses the same fixed 60 Hz simulation on desktop and mobile.

 Controls

Touch

- Swipe left, right or up — jump

- Diagonal swipe — diagonal jump

- Tap — create a temporary ghost platform

- On-screen buttons — pause/reset attempt and restart

Keyboard / mouse

- Arrow keys or A / D / W — jump

- Space — jump upward

- Click — create a temporary ghost platform

- R — restart the current level

 A gentle ghost story

This is a mysterious game, not a horror game. Echo is designed for children, families and anyone who enjoys short, replayable puzzle-platforming sessions.

- No ads during gameplay

- No energy, lives or waiting timers

- No loot boxes or random paid rewards

- No punishment for missing a day

- Local progress plus a recoverable online leaderboard profile

Can you light every candle — and keep both Echoes safe?