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
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Authorbwings2001
GenreStrategy
TagsDungeon Crawler, Leaderboard, Minimalist, mobile-friendly, Pixel Art, Procedural Generation, Roguelike, Short, Singleplayer, Turn-based
AI DisclosureAI 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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