Is there any way to avoid the wisps other than trying not to walk into them?
The bubbly look of the walls kind of reminded me of human intestines so I thought it was a game about trying to escape a body at first.
I like the concept though!
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Thanks for playing! Yes, a few ways, and the game does a bad job of telling you any of them:
- Keep your flame big. Drifting wisps get pushed back at the edge of your light, so a fresh torch holds them off. A small flame lets them in close.
- Watch for the flare. A wisp brightens for about half a second before it lunges, then dashes in a straight line at where you were standing. Step sideways when it flares and it shoots past you.
- Use the lit braziers. Their pools push wisps away, and a wisp that drifts into the middle of one burns up. When it gets crowded, back into a pool.
- After a hit you get about a second where nothing can touch you, so keep moving and don't stop to recover.
The how-to line only said "Wisps eat your flame", which didn't help. Your question got it fixed: the title screen now says to step aside when one flares and that lit braziers burn them away (live now, same game otherwise).
And the intestines read made me laugh. Those are meant to be cave walls, but "escape the body with a torch" is a better premise than mine.