Planned Release Date: September 2026

About This Game

Read the tape. Ride the wave. Die by leverage.

GOD CANDLE is a real-time trading roguelite. You get a $1,000,000 book and ten trading days to retire. Each day is a 45-second sprint through market hours — go long, go short, lever up, and clear the closing-bell target, or the margin clerk shuts the desk down.

Every run is a different market

• Choose your ticker each morning from a shortlist with volatility and behavior readouts — ten of them, from sleepy $GLD to pure-chaos $GME.
  
• Nine market-event bosses: Earnings Day, FOMC, Squeeze Watch, Flash Crash, Melt-Up, Quad Witching, Circuit Breaker, OPEX Pin, and The Bear.
  
• Ten daily market conditions on top — Volatility Storm, Algo Chop, Data Blackout, Gamma Ramp, Zero Commission Day, and more.
  
• Shuffled boss order, jittered targets, rerolled tickers. No two runs play the same.

Build a gloriously broken trader

• Four classes, each with an exclusive two-power kit: The Chad rides 5x leverage, The Quant sees six ticks into the future, The Cockroach refuses to die, The Insider gets a free tip line that rings four times a day.
  
• 29 relics and 16 powers. Draft one of three after every bell, or perma-install tools with Street Cred so they're live from day one.
  
• Relics that reward a style — scalping, diamond-handing, hot streaks — and light up when you pair the right ones.
  
• Print the GOD CANDLE: a divine, screen-shaking vertical candle straight into your position.

Read the tape, not the headline

• Earnings follow guidance, not the EPS print. A beat can tank. A miss can rip.
  
• Every ticker hides a good, mid, or bad book. You infer it from noisy sector-relative signals — and some of those signals are cooked.
  
• Draw stop orders straight onto the chart. Trim, flip, and scale mid-tape.
  
• Optional side contracts every morning, paid at the bell. Tempting. Never mandatory.

The floor has opinions

• 26 in-day floor events with real stakes: take the bribe, buy the hot tip, ride the pump, park cash in real estate, wine, or art — decisions that pay off, or detonate, the next day.
  
• Rare gold JACKPOT and red DISASTER events that can make or end a run.

Then do it again, harder

• Four difficulties from Rookie to Prop Desk, then Ascension on top.
  
• A seeded Daily Gauntlet — same market for everyone, every day.
  
• Endless mode for when ten days stops being enough.
  
• 29 achievements, Career records per class, a Hall of Fame, and a leaderboard.
  
• A Trophy Room of ten chart skins bought with Street Cred.

Built for it

• Procedural synth soundtrack and per-action SFX, synthesized in-engine.
  
• Colorblind palette, UI scaling, and toggles for screen shake, extra effects, and CRT scanlines.
  
• Full controller support with device-aware prompts and seamless switching between gamepad and keyboard/mouse.
  
• Steam Cloud saves. Runs on a laptop.

Every death is your own greed. Retire forever — or get liquidated.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools assisted the developer during production with portions of game code, localization, written content, and some visual and store artwork. All included material was reviewed, edited, and integrated by the developer. No content or code is generated during gameplay, and the game does not connect to external AI services.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

GOD CANDLE is a satirical trading game featuring fictional-money speculation and chance-based events, including jackpot and high-roller language. Written event text references bribery, insider tips, pump-and-dump schemes, regulatory investigations, a wine investment, and a joking reference to a prescription stimulant.

There are no depictions of sexual content, sexual assault, nudity, self-harm, physical violence, gore, intoxication, or substance abuse. The game contains no real-money gambling, cash-out, in-game purchases, or financial advice.