Hollow Lantern

Hollow Lantern is a moody exploration adventure with barely any text. You wake up in an abandoned lighthouse and slowly piece together what happened by poking at the world — pulling levers, lighting lamps, following a stray cat down a stairwell. It trusts you to notice things.

The art is beautiful, all soft hand-drawn interiors and warm lamplight against a cold sea outside. Puzzles are environmental rather than logic-box style, so you're solving the space instead of a riddle.

It's a short game, maybe three hours, but it's the kind of short that feels complete. We finished it in one sitting and immediately wanted to show someone else.

What we liked

• Gorgeous hand-drawn atmosphere
• Storytelling through environment, not text dumps
• Compact, complete experience