The Red Lantern

 PC
User Score
3.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 3 out of 6

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  1. 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 game review websites giving the game something around 70/100 . . . maybe consider a different line of work.
  2. 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 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 2The 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
  3. 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. 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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Metascore
69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. 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.
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  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.
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  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.
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