Pressing X does not work.

[Buster Voodoo]

I'm 5 seconds into the game, it says "walk close to the fire and press X to interact." The little icon pops up over my head and I am hitting the X button as hard as I can but nothing's happening.

[uroc]

if you use keyboard, then try other near keys such as S,D,C
and if you use xbox pad, maybe the icon doesn't mean it's possible at that moment. you need torch or bonfire to get finger-tip fire
there will be some moments you can try it.

[tukoman]

The same is happening to me: pressing the X button does nothing. Any idea? Can this be related to the controller configuration?

Ok, it seems to work after loading the controller configuration that is recommended for this game.

Thanks!

[Justyn]

My game says to use "S" to interact.. I'm still on the first scene of the game.. I picked up the torch successfully, however I am unable to light it on the fire. I feel dumb as this is like the tutorial level and I can't understand what I need to do... Pressed many many keys. Controls are very awkward.

They should have made it like a normal adventure game with mouse clicking to interact.

Ok update...

I was using the wrong fire.. I thought the flame next to the cabin was the source I had to interact with.. Didn't even see the outlined area due to high contrast of the yellow flame overpowering the soft white outline.

[mo54]

my controller doesnt work and neither do the keyboard controls.he only moves left and right and doesnt jump or do anything else.terrible game and steam had a cheek to recommend it when I was searching for point and click games

[Catman]

I'm having the same problem. How do you load the controller configuration that is recommended for this game?

[kokkilokki]

Originally posted by Catman:

I'm having the same problem. How do you load the controller configuration that is recommended for this game?

In Candle library page click on Gear (settings) -> Manage -> Controller configuration -> (new window pops up) -> Browse configs

Note: that doesn't work for me at all, with Playstation 4 controller or Xbox One. I'm very confused with the Steam Input stuff. (Could be a Linux specific issue).

[spiritworld]

Using Xbox one controller and gave up. Started tutorial, managed to jump with A but X did nothing. Now playing with keyboard instead.

[Silurean]

I had this same issue with the "X" button not working on both the XBOX One and 360 controllers. The fix for me: I had to go into the Steam settings, Controller, General Controller Settings and uncheck Generic Gamepad configuration support. I left the XBOX configuration support checked.

I could then use my XBOX controllers with no further issues with this game.

[gemota65]

This works for me with dualshock4: Import the official recommended Candle configuration. Although it is not the one that corresponds to dualshock4, it works.

With steam in Big picture mode:
1. Manage game settings
2. Controller configuration
3. Browse config
4. Select the official for Candle from Recommended section
5. Import Config

Only the Playstation controller marked in the general steam settings.

[ZitO]

This might come late for some but I just came across this game and therefore this issue on my XBox Controller.

Fixed it by changing the controller layout:
X button -> S key from keyboard (Im able to pick thing up now)
Y Button -> I key from keyboard (Inventory now opens)

Since I will use the Joysticks and not the DPads I changed them to had the Controls (H Key) and Map (M Key) and also added Esc Key to one of them as the controller was not able to skip the inicial cutcene upon opening the game

Also changed:
LT -> E Key from keyboard
RT -> Tab Key from keyboard
Still a bit clanky but I can chance the tabs of the pause menu.

Hope it helps someone!

Edit: added stuff

[ThaBlackMambaaa]

For me, this was when I realized the game was a little buggy. I also had the language change on startup as well.

I ran around hitting X for like 15 minutes before finally looking up this discussion and others to no avail.
I was about to throw in the towel, but without closing the game,
removed my controller batteries and put them back in.

VIOLA! It worked like a charm!

I had to do this several times, randomly when I would reboot the game, but it worked every time.

Moral of the story is... "Have you tried turning off and on again?"