Hollow Lantern

Hollow Lantern is a hand-drawn adventure that trades combat for exploration and gentle environmental puzzles. You guide a small figure with a lantern through ruins, coaxing open doors, redirecting light, and piecing together what happened here.

There's almost no text. The story lands through backgrounds, faded murals, and the way the music swells when you reach somewhere important. It's the kind of game that respects your patience and rewards poking at things.

Touch controls are simple — tap to move, drag to interact — and never fight you. It's short, maybe an evening or two, but it stays with you afterward.

What we liked

• Beautiful hand-drawn atmosphere
• Puzzles built on light and observation
• Story told without a wall of text