Last Light

BOTH HTML AND ZIP HAVE SOME ISSUES, THEY'RE PLAYABLE BUT EXPECT SOME BAD QUIRKS
Programming: First_Endless
Visuals: First_Endless
Story: WhyJustY, Quinn, First_Endless
Music: WhyJustY

Barely escaping a horde of monsters, our protagonist finds a tower with a strange glowing light on top. This is one of the last sources of light to exist, so he decides to go in to collect it. The game is filled to the brim with spaghetti code, the level design is jank, there's probably a game-breaking bug somewhere, but it's a finished product 
Yes, the Historian's alpha effect is PURELY engine level.

left and right/a and d to walk 

down/s to talk to historian, open chests, and read the sign in level 7

you cannot open chests when you already have an item

 c or u to read papers 

x to stop reading 

z to burn or accept historian's deal