Lantern
Be the wind and guide a beautiful lantern that spreads the powerful message of everlasting love, by bringing life and color back to the world around you. Lantern is a relaxing game experience full of positive…
Lantern is an indie developed by Storm in a Teacup, released 15 November 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Lantern is
Lantern is an indie game developed by Storm in a Teacup and released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Once upon a time, there was a very sad princess. She felt so unloved and unhappy, that everything around her became grey and lifeless and the entire land was deprived of its color and joy. Our fable begins when a single, lonely lantern was lit in a faraway village…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lantern holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Lantern launched on 15 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2 and The Last Guardian. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy XV, Titanfall 2, The Last Guardian.
Official trailer
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