Candelabra: Estoscerro

Sly Dog Studios' first-person dungeon crawler, played with two NES controllers held upright, one in each hand.

The heroes of the earlier Candelabra games, The Mad Wizard, The Scarlet Matron and The Warlord Slayer, reappear without weapons and must scavenge gear left by earlier adventurers in the halls of Estoscerro, on a quest for the king to climb a plateau and find the Candelabra.

Fights are about timing attacks and blocking blows rather than choosing commands from a menu. With a controller in each hand, your thumbs rest on the two D-pads, and most actions use the arrows or Start and Select. A modified Virtual Boy controller also works. Information is spread across several parts of the screen, and reading the manual first is recommended.

Each Candelabra game covers a different point in one sword-and-sorcery story in a different style; the idea began with experiments in RPG Maker on the PlayStation. A Kickstarter for a physical edition ran from 22 March to 21 April 2019 and raised 27,533 dollars against a 7,500 dollar goal, and the game was shown on the PAX East 2019 floor. The cartridge runs on NTSC and PAL consoles, and on a Famicom with an adapter.