The Red Lantern

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3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Red Lantern is a resource management narrative game where you and your team of five sled dogs must survive the wilderness and find your way home. You play as The Musher as she sets out to build her dog sledding team and her new life.

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The Red Lantern Is Oregon Trail With Sled Dogs | PAX East 2020 Gameplay

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. TheSixthAxis
    Oct 22, 2020
    90
    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.
  2. KeenGamer
    Oct 26, 2020
    72
    Overall, The Red Lantern was a fascinating and unique experience. It feels like a modern version of The Oregon Trail but instead of traveling across a map and dying of dysentery, you ride behind a dog sled and die in a much colder climate. Creating a team of dogs and then sticking with them for every run until credits rolled was both rewarding and allowed me to connect emotionally. The Red Lantern does not provide the most complex inventory management but will almost always have you considering when to use which item. The loop of the game did begin to become predictable near the end, but The Red Lantern always brought me back for one more chance to find the path home.
  3. GamingTrend
    Oct 22, 2020
    70
    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.
  4. GameSpace
    Nov 18, 2020
    70
    I was a bit disappointed with the ending because I think I was hoping that there was a twist or something more meaningful to find at the lodge. With that said, I still enjoyed the theme and gameplay and loved seeing how the relationships with the sled dogs played out and progressed on the journey.
  5. PC Invasion
    Oct 22, 2020
    45
    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.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
  1. DantheDino
    Oct 31, 2020
    5
    The red lantern is a narrative/ resource management game. In this game, you will: Hunt, Fish, Set up traps, and find resources. This soundsThe red lantern is a narrative/ resource management game. In this game, you will: Hunt, Fish, Set up traps, and find resources. This sounds interesting at first, but you will soon get disappointed. The gameplay is terrible. You just choose your options from a 2-4 list. Ex: Go left, or right on your sled. The hunting is just a quick time event, and trapping is just RNG. The game was about 2 hours long. For 25 dollars, I do not recommend the Red Lantern.… Expand
  2. hexava6294
    Apr 15, 2021
    3
    Sometimes, a game would have been better if it was just an animated short. The Red Lantern is an animated short that would have been better as a game.
  4. MCmetacritic
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    There . . . is no gameplay. I truly, honestly, cannot imagine a person living on this planet for whom this game could be fun. To the gameThere . . . is no gameplay. I truly, honestly, cannot imagine a person living on this planet for whom this game could be fun. To the game review websites giving the game something around 70/100 . . . maybe consider a different line of work.… Expand
  5. joshuan102
    May 26, 2021
    0
    To even call The Red Lantern a game feels dishonest. Here is another sentence to make this review at least 75 characters long.

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