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2020 PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified 20.99 € 83 % positive Very positive, 1,001 reviews on Steam

You lead a team of five sled dogs through the Alaskan wilderness, facing randomized events where resources and decisions determine whether you survive and make it home. You can hunt aggressively or play it cautiously.

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  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style
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The closest matches for The Red Lantern are The Pale Beyond, Through the Darkest of Times and This War of Mine. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Red Lantern special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Pale Beyond

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2023 PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified 19.99 € 90 % positive Very positive, 1,925 reviews on Steam

  • Choices with consequences
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Distinctive, stylised art style

You become the reluctant leader of a polar expedition trapped in the ice, juggling scarce supplies and crew morale while making tough calls. A narrative-driven survival adventure with a historical Antarctic setting.

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This War of Mine

Choices with consequences

Instead of soldiers, you guide a group of civilians through a besieged city, maintaining your shelter by day and scavenging dangerous ruins by night. Harsh moral dilemmas between survival and humanity make it a haunting, unforgettable experience.

Impact Winter

Pure single-player experience

As the leader of a small band of survivors, you manage resources, send companions out to scout, and keep them alive for 30 days in a snowbound world after an asteroid strike. Every day forces tough trade-offs between food, warmth and morale.

Help Will Come Tomorrow

Pure single-player experience

After a train wreck in the Siberian wilderness, you guide a group of survivors through hunger, cold and mistrust. Resource management and tough moral decisions decide who lasts until rescue arrives.

Survive the Blackout

Pure single-player experience

A narrative survival game set in a bleak post-apocalyptic world after a blackout. You manage a small group, scavenge for supplies and face tough moral decisions about what you will sacrifice to stay alive.

Dead In Bermuda

Choices with consequences

Eight plane crash survivors are stranded on a mysterious island, and you assign daily tasks while managing resources and morale. Each character has distinct traits and stories, and your decisions shape who survives and what the island hides.

Dead In Vinland

Choices with consequences

A survival management game in which you guide an exiled Viking family through hunger, illness and mental strain on a strange island. Every camp decision and expedition matters, while esoteric mysteries unfold in the background.

Cultist Simulator

Choices with consequences

A dark narrative card game set in a 1920s world of hidden gods, where you build your own cult by juggling time, resources and rituals. Cryptic rules and emergent stories arise from your experiments and failures.

Dyscourse

Choices with consequences

A choice-driven survival story in which Rita, stranded on an island with an oddball group after a plane crash, makes decisions that can lead to cooperation, betrayal or worse.

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