Thank you for playing! The static should be more "be carefull, its near!", than scary. To be honest i never play scary/spooky/horror games myself, so i'm not sure what is "good scary" and what is annoying :P
The performance-problem is caused by the torch-fire-particel-effect. i used waaaay to detailed 3D-particles and couldn't find the source of the problem in time.
https://whiteshampoo.itch.io/spheres-of-darkness-improved
Here is an updated version with much better framerate, if you want to complete the game.
The password is "Orbs"