Keep the Light

Keep the Light is a short survival game about where you put your lamps. You own two lamps and a small supply of oil. Light a lamp, set it down, and you are safe inside its circle while your wick regrows. Step into the dark and your wick burns. Shades chase you, Snuffers drain your lamps, Lungers dash at you from the edge, and on later nights the Hollow Warden can only be hurt inside lamplight. Your attack is an automatic ember flick, so survival is about placement, not aim. Hold out until dawn to clear the night.

1. Light your first lamp with E (it costs 2 oil) and stand inside its circle.
2. Collect oil flasks around the courtyard; they respawn, often near the four shrine mosaics.
3. Pick a lamp back up to move your light — the darkness snaps shut where it was.
4. Lure the Hollow Warden into lamplight to make it vulnerable; it withdraws if you never do.
5. Spend embers between nights on eight permanent upgrades.

Move with WASD or the arrow keys, dash with Space or Shift, place or pick up a lamp with E or J, pause with Esc or P, mute with M. Drag on the left side to move, tap DASH or the right side to dash, and tap the LAMP button to place or pick up a lamp.

8 nights + Daily Night · Hub version 0.4.2+clarity.2

Do not leave both lamps burning at the edges — they gutter out after about a minute.

Picking up a lit lamp refunds its unburnt oil, so moving early is cheaper than you think.

Snuffers walk to your nearest lit lamp; meet them there instead of chasing them.

The Last Dark shrinks every lamp near dawn. Have oil ready before the meter reaches it.

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