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About This Game

One minute before midnight, time stopped.

To keep his dying daughter, the royal astronomer pulled the forbidden Brake in the Great Clock — and the city of Caldera froze at 23:59. The sun cannot rise. Every light is sinking. And out of the stopped minute crawl the Hollows: fears, memories and unspoken words given hungry shape.

You are Mira, one of the Lanternborn — the few who still carry a Spark. Survive the minute, relight the city and climb toward the Clock.

Light is life

Your lantern is a circle of safety in the dark. Light the street lamps to push the night back, and keep the horde out of your glow — in the darkness the Hollows grow bolder.

A new street every time

Every run builds its streets anew: snowy villages, desert bazaars, ghost-train stations, flooded harbours, toxic factory yards and cemeteries — each with its own hazards. Go below through sewers, catacombs, mines and frozen caves, climb to the rooftops, open vaults and solve lever, rune and lights-out puzzles.

Break the Bells

Five acts, each ending with a Bell — a bon them lie the ten Element streets, theshifting Fractures, and military missions with tanks, aircraft and outlaw camps.

Grow stronger

Level up, spend points on attributes, fin and grenades, pick upgrades during eachrun and forge permanent ones at Bram's forge between runs.

A story that remembers

Between runs, talk to the survivors on the Chapters screen — Bram the smith, Captain Sola and the others who join as the story goes on. New scenes open as you progress. When a Bell falls you choose: extinguish it, or spare it

in a Pact. Those choices change later scel endings, including a secret one.

Features

Fast top-down action against hordes of Hollows

Procedurally generated streets and underg

5 acts, 5 Bell bosses, 10 Element streets and Fracture streets

Ten kinds of district, each with its own weather and hazards

Hero levels, attributes, loot and an arsenal of weapons

Puzzles, vaults, errands and hidden places to explore

Multiple endings

53 Steam achievements

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the game's pixel art (character and enemy sprites, environment props, chapter card illustrations, achievement icons and store key art) was created with the help of the AI tool PixelLab and then edited and assembled by the developer. All voice-over in the game (story narration, character dialogue, in-game barks and radio chatter) and the trailer narration were generated with AI text-to-speech (ElevenLabs) from the developer's own script. No AI is used to generate content while the game is running.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Lanternborn is a dark-fantasy action game with constant combat. The player fights hordes of zombie-like monsters (the Hollows) and also human enemies such as outlaws and soldiers, using firearms, a flamethrower, grenades and explosives. Violence is shown in a pixel-art style with mild blood effects and no dismemberment. The story deals with death, grief and a child's terminal illness, and the game has a dark, frightening horror atmosphere.