The Red Lantern
The Red Lantern is a narrative, survival game where you and your team of 5 sled dogs, lost in the wilderness, must navigate the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home. Choose how you…
The Red Lantern is an adventure developed by Timberline Studio Inc., released 22 October 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.49 at Steam.
What The Red Lantern is
The Red Lantern is an adventure game developed by Timberline Studio Inc. and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Red Lantern is a narrative, survival game where you and your team of 5 sled dogs, lost in the wilderness, must navigate the ever-changing events of the Alaskan bush to find your way home. Choose how you want to interact with the world, do you tackle it head on hunting everything that moves, or do you take a more cautious approach?
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Red Lantern holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 3 points below the year average.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.49 at Steam, 90% below its usual price. Across the 3 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $5.00 — a spread of $2.51 for an identical product.
What it launched against
The Red Lantern launched on 22 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Official trailer
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