Lanternkeeper
Your lantern is the only thing between you and the dark.
Lanternkeeper is a short turn-based roguelike you can play in your browser, on desktop or phone. Every step burns oil. A brighter light shows more of the dungeon and freezes the shadows inside it — but it drains your oil faster. How deep can you go before the flame goes out?
Features
- One-minute rules, endless runs: move, wait, raise or lower your light, flash.
- Shadows freeze in your light. Bump into them to burn them, or flash to clear everything around you.
- Hounds, light thieves and lurkers that only appear inside your light.
- Lava, ice, cracked walls and hidden treasure rooms.
- 11 relics that bend the rules, 3 lanterns to unlock, 8 feats.
- Daily challenge with a new rule twist every day, and a shared global leaderboard with run replays.
- Plays in English and Korean (switch on the title screen).
Controls
- Keyboard: Arrow keys / WASD to move, Space to wait, Q / E to lower or raise your light, F to flash, M for sound, G to switch language.
- Touch: on-screen buttons.
Made solo. Feedback is very welcome in the comments!
| Published | 5 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | bwings2001 |
| Genre | Strategy |
| Tags | Dungeon Crawler, Leaderboard, Minimalist, mobile-friendly, Pixel Art, Procedural Generation, Roguelike, Short, Singleplayer, Turn-based |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text The character, shadow, item and tile sprites were generated with open-license image models (Qwen-Image and Z-Image, both Apache 2.0), then picked, downscaled and cleaned up for the game. AI coding assistants helped write the code and the in-game text, including the English translation. Sound effects are CC0 samples (Kenney.nl) or synthesized, and the music is synthesized; no generative AI was used for audio. |







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