Lantern Hollow

Lantern Hollow is a slow, warm adventure about wandering a misty forest with a lantern and a notebook. There's no combat and no failure state, just places to find and little puzzles tucked into the scenery. It's the game you play before bed to wind down.

The art does a lot of heavy lifting. Every clearing feels hand-drawn and lived-in, and the ambient sound design made us turn the volume up instead of muting it like we usually do on the bus.

It's short, maybe four hours, but it doesn't overstay its welcome. We'd rather have a tight, complete little world than a bloated one padded with busywork.

What we liked

• Calming, low-stress pace
• Beautiful hand-drawn scenes
• Respectably short and complete