January 7, 2024 - Day 372 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 407
Game: The Red Lantern
Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 9, 2021
Installed: Jan 7, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34m
Rating: 3 - OK
The Red Lantern is a first-person narrative-driven game about dog-sledding, with some roguelite & survival elements.
It's the sixth game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and it's an interesting title, that I wouldn't have picked to play.
Making a snow-change, you open the game by meeting a series of dogs, needing to select 4 of them to build a dog-sledding team in Alaska.
Once you've picked your doggos, you reach your destination, and have to make a several-day sled trip to a remote cabin through a procedurally generated environment. The game is the story of that trip.
If you fail, you wake up again in your van, "from a nightmare", and start the sled-trip over, with more resources based on your previous experiences, with your ultimate goal to reach the cabin that's marked by the red lantern hanging outside.
If you're a dog person, this game might definitely be up your alley.