The Game Census
Lantern cover art

Lantern

Storm in a Teacup · 2016-11-15

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 15, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Be the wind and guide a beautiful lantern that spreads the powerful message of everlasting love, by bringing life and color back to the world around you. Lantern is a relaxing game experience full of positive emotions.

69%
positive of 70 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$4.99
steam price (US)

Once upon a time, there was a very sad princess. She felt so unloved and unhappy, that everything around her became grey and lifeless and the entire land was deprived of its color and joy. Our fable begins when a single, lonely lantern was lit in a faraway village…(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 29,747 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 70 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Nuuvem (2018-02-10) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620162026Week of 2016-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportVR SupportedSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

6 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian

Player tags

VRIndieRelaxingAdventureAtmosphericFamily Friendly

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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