Hollow Lantern

Hollow Lantern is quiet and a little sad, in a good way. You wander an abandoned town holding a lantern, and light is both your tool and your resource. Dark corners hide paths, but staying in them too long drains you.

There's no combat and barely any text — the story comes through what you find and how rooms change once you fix something. I spent an evening just piecing together what happened to the place.

Puzzles are gentle and mostly environmental. It's short, maybe four hours, but it stayed with me longer than most bigger games.

What we liked

• Atmosphere that pulls you in
• Light-as-resource exploration
• Short, memorable, no filler