Lantern Reviews

A slow meditative exploration game with no combat. Take as long as you want to turn some countryside and villages colourful. I go back and replay this when I'm too lazy to play a game which requires concentration. Slight drawback: You can't save your progress. The game knows when you've finished a level, and can therefore start the next one, but if you quit before then you lose your progress on that level.

Nauseating. I have a very high tolerance for VR experiences inducing motion sickness, but this one made me feel very very unwell, and almost made me vomit. Do not use if you're plauing with a VR headset.

OH MY GOD I don't know what I expected going into the game but I LOVED IT! Was not ready for it to end and I just want more. The world painting is so satisfying and I loved the soundtrack. Only negative part was that I had a lot of issues during the first 5 minutes trying to figure out how the controls worked, but by the end of the game I was very comfortable using them. 10/10 recommend for anyone who wants a relaxing gaming experience!

(played on PC) So first of all, I wasn't expecting much when I bought this game. This is not my style. First I'll start with the UI. The UI feels so cheap and incomplete that it gives a negative bias to the player. The game is a bit empty, the movement is slow and difficult to control etc. etc. It was supposed to be a relaxing game but I was having trouble trying to move. Basically, it wasn't comforting at all. The enviroment is okay. 6/10

A dreaming and fantastic experience, especially in VR. I waited a bit too much before reviewing this, but I had to play it with my girlfriend on hers account, and by my brother's on his HTC Vive, in order to fully express myself. To someone it may fall a bit short, I may understan their point of view, what they lack instead is what I think is the true purpose of this game: it's a family, relaxing and joyful experience, which envelops you and fills you with this sense of calm that turns into joy as soon as you color up your landscape, and it's a great way to relax, steam off a bit from our hectic life, and enjoy this small gem. One little warning: keyboard controls are not recomended, and 21:9 support may be nice, for who like me has a wider screen :)

I loved this game, such wonderful music, inspiring messages, loved the way you could bring back color to the world, and although the story had no words, you could see the whole story; I would not change a thing as it is a masterpiece.

I don't recommend VR with this one as you can get motion sickness very easily. Very relaxing, beautiful game with a pretty story to go with in my opinion. The controls and the whole idea of the game is very simple, you just go around bringing color and life back to the worlds. I liked the diversity, and how all of the worlds are very different with different seasons. Actually hoped it would be a lot longer.. Maybe with even more different worlds than just 4. But the sizes of those are good enough. Definately recommending this to everyone who just want to sit back and enjoy beautiful music and easy, relaxing gameplay.

Nice idea, but didn't work for me. Part of it was using the gamepad. I've seen the gamepad work fine in VR, in such games as IO Moon. But it didn't work for me here. Maybe rewrite the game for VIVE controls and teleporting? This is the first VR game to give me VR sickness. I can see why they went for flying, but the speed is way too high. Particularly the turning. Adding some speed control options might be a help.

Bought it for the VR support, but did not enjoy it on the merit of that alone. Any movement of the lantern causes the whole camera (i.e. your head) to broadly rotate about the Y axis, which is disorienting at best and nauseating at worst. It also suffers badly from "why is this in VR?" syndrome. I also found the stereo effects muddled and strange compared to other games, although maybe I could have resolved those issues if I spent more time tweaking the settings. This might have also been a side effect of an inconsistent frame rate and judder. Regardless, the gameplay itself was a deal breaker in this instance. I personally didn't find the game fun enough in its vanilla form to play it on screen instead of in headset, although your mileage may vary.

[h1] (Non-VR review) [/h1] A very relaxing game that takes you on a journey around beautifully looking landscapes. You are a lantern, a magical one that brings light to the dull non-colored landscapes around you. In other words, your bring life.. Warmth.. And beautifulness! Pretty much that's what this game is about. You move around coloring everything within your range. Transforming everything to as lively as it used to be all while listening to a relaxing beautiful soundtrack. Only thing I did not like was the clunky controllers. Moving around with ease at first will be awkward and it definitely takes some getting used to it. Other than that, this game is pretty much what it advertises itself to be. Game is not that long. You will have to go through 4 different seasons/maps in order to finish it. In average, doing so will take around 2 hours. Thus, I would only recommend getting this game on a sale.