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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 want to interact with the world, do you tackle it head on hunting everything that moves, or do you take a more cautious approach?
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- Released
- October 22, 2020
- Developer
- Timberline Studio Inc.
- Publisher
- Timberline Studio Inc.
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The Red Lantern Reviews
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The Red Lantern is a fantastic narrative-focused roguelite survival game with some of the most adorable animated dogs I’ve seen in a video game. Its unique blend of multiple genres feels unique and where survival elements in most games grow tiresome quickly, they sit perfectly within this Alaskan journey of new beginnings. This is one of the most enjoyable indie titles of 2020.
A couple of niggles can’t hold back this beautiful and brutal avante-garde experience.
Nevertheless, Red Lantern is still a relatively good game. There are worse ways to spend your time than on the trail with some good dogs, and the game is honestly a perfect fit for the Switch’s portability. The length of an average run is pretty perfect for pulling the game out of your bag on a lunch break, and outside of the graphical hiccups the game still runs very well in handheld mode. The main character, played by Ashly Burch, is incredibly relatable and is yet another great role for the esteemed voice actress. I got my first successful run after about three hours of playtime, which de…
Can you survive the harsh environments of Alaska? Face deadly predators and navigate over snowy terrain on the adventure of a lifetime. The Red Lantern is a new story-driven roguelite from Timberline Studios that will challenge players over the course of their journey towards home.
I remember seeing the trailer on a Nintendo Indie Direct for The Red Lantern game a few months back and since then had been anticipating the release. It looked
The Red Lantern is a great experience. I love my dog sled team and playing the runs again and again only reinforced that. But I’m not sure the roguelite style stays fresh all the way through, and it can get a bit tiring and repetitive. In the end, The Red Lantern is not going to win a lot of awards for what it does and is, but it’s a unique take on the walking simulator genre that honestly has gotten stale and oversaturated.
A few years ago my boyfriend was working a job that crushed him. It was temporary, it had an end date, but it was draining his soul and every day he dragged himself to work with mammoth effort. He told me some days he imagined a giant bird would swoop in through the window and take him away in its massive talons, or a wolf would spring on him and drag him into the bushes. Thankfully, he survived that concerning ordeal – but that feeling, that daydream of escaping, that longing to leave it a...
It has the occasional nice moment, but I got sick of it a while before beating it. Furthermore, it can be beaten in under three hours, so that's really saying something.
The Red Lantern, however, doesn’t work as a roguelike because it wants you to be emotionally involved in what’s going on, and it’s really hard to keep caring when you’re experiencing the same scenes over and over again. You play as a rookie dog-sledder, who has decided to give up her life in the city to challenge herself to survive – even thrive – in the frozen wilderness. She forms a team of herself and five dogs, and then your job is to make guide her across the wilderness while being very aware of her dwindling rations and resources. Opportunities to replenish those supplies com…