

After your car breaks down on a secluded road, you seek help in an ominous abandoned mansion, only to find a chilling message: "Let's play a game. Take the candle." Solve puzzles, avoid lurking horrors, and escape the nightmare in this retro-style 2D Japanese psychological horror game.
Overview
After your car breaks down on a secluded road, you seek help in an ominous abandoned mansion, only to find a chilling message: "Let's play a game. Take the candle." Solve puzzles, avoid lurking horrors, and escape the nightmare in this retro-style 2D Japanese psychological horror game.
Description
■ About This Game
"Kazuko" is a retro-style 2D Japanese horror adventure game set in an eerie, pitch-black mansion wrapped in silence.
Unravel the mysteries and puzzles hidden within the estate, evade the creeping terror, and fight to make your escape.
■ Story
Your car suddenly breaks down on an isolated mountain path.
Seeking help, you stumble into a foreboding mansion shrouded in darkness.
There is no sign of life, and the door slams shut behind you—locking you in.
In the eerie silence, an unsettling presence lingers, accompanied by a cryptic note left behind:
"Now, let us play a game. Take the candle."
A creeping dread, followed by the approaching footsteps of "Kazuko."
Will you survive and escape this nightmare alive?
■ Features
・Tense, Limited-Visibility Exploration: Navigate the pitch black with only a faint light source to guide your way.
・Puzzles and Mansion Gimmicks: Gather scattered memos and clues to unlock doors and solve environmental puzzles.
・Creeping Japanese Horror: Evade the mad, supernatural presence wandering the halls.
・Selectable Difficulty Modes: Includes "Normal" mode for players focused on unraveling the mystery, and "Hard" mode for a far more brutal, unforgiving chase.
■ Specifications
・Genre: Exploration 2D Horror Adventure
・Ending: 1 (Linear / Single Ending)
・Steam Achievements: None
■ Play Time
Estimated 30 minutes to 1.5 hours
■ Controls
・Move: Arrow Keys / D-pad
・Confirm / Interact: Enter / Z Key (Gamepad: A Button)
・Cancel / Menu: Esc / X Key (Gamepad: B Button)
・Dash: Shift Key
■ Video Streaming & Content Creation Guidelines
Gameplay streaming and video uploads by individuals and organizations are warmly welcomed.
No prior permission or notification is required. Monetization is fully permitted.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could include the link to this Steam store page in your video title or description.
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