Planned Release Date: September 2026

About This Game

Carry the lantern. Build the warband. Outlast the road.

Starwood: Lantern is an asynchronous, day-based fantasy autobattler. Choose a hero, recruit minions and spells at Camp, arrange a seven-slot formation, and send your warband into automatic combat against rival runs. Every day asks a new question: spend now, upgrade your Camp, chase a synergy, or preserve the formation that is keeping you alive?

Build around your hero

Choose from 45 heroes with distinct powers and starting plans. Recruit across seven cultures—Concord, Lunari, Meridian, Lantern, Antler, Ashen, and Null—or combine them with Neutral cards to create flexible, unexpected builds.

Make every position count

Your board has seven slots. Attack order, adjacency, Shields, summons, Requiem effects, and start- or end-of-combat triggers can turn the same collection of minions into very different outcomes. Rearrange freely during recruitment, then watch the battle resolve.

Adapt over a full run

The Camp offers 238 live minions and spells across six tiers. Refresh the market, improve your Camp, freeze a promising offer, Discover new cards, and strengthen your board with 33 Blessings that can change the direction of a run.

A persistent casual account

Your casual account tracks run history, statistics, hero collection, and the Crownweights you earn in play. The optional Meridian Exchange lets players collect and trade hero variants using this valueless in-game currency. Export your Account key if you want to continue the same casual account on another device or in the web edition.

Current features

• Asynchronous, day-based autobattler runs
  
• 45 heroes and distinct hero powers
  
• 178 minions and 60 recruit-phase spells
  
• Seven-slot tactical formations and animated automatic combat
  
• Seven cultures, Neutral cards, and six spell schools
  
• 33 run-shaping Blessings
  
• Persistent run archive, statistics, card collection, and hero collection
  
• Manual Account key export/import for cross-device continuity

Starwood: Lantern requires a broadband internet connection. The Steam edition contains the casual game mode only.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used during development to create some pre-generated 2D concept art and visual assets that appear in the game and its marketing materials. These assets were selected, edited, integrated, and reviewed by the development team. The game does not generate AI content while it is running.