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2020PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified83 % positive20.99 €

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.

Choices with consequences
Runs that play out differently every time
Strong, story-driven narrative
Distinctive, stylised art style

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The closest matches for The Red Lantern are As Far as the Eye, 60 Parsecs! and Curious Expedition. 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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As Far as the Eye

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2020PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable72 % positive20.99 €

Runs that play out differently every time
Choices with consequences
Distinctive, stylised art style

You lead a nomadic tribe as a mobile village through turn-based resource management toward the Eye of the world. Random events, natural hazards and tough decisions keep each run tense in a storybook-like, hand-drawn world.

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60 Parsecs!

Choices with consequences

You flee a nuclear strike into space with a small crew and must manage supplies, morale and tough decisions in a darkly funny retro-futuristic survival story. Random events make each run play out differently, often ending in surprising or fatal ways.

Curious Expedition

Runs that play out differently every time

A roguelike set in the Victorian age where you lead famous historical figures into uncharted lands, juggling supplies, sanity and risky decisions. Every procedurally generated expedition plays out differently and often ends in surprising ways.

Curious Expedition 2

Runs that play out differently every time

A turn-based roguelike where you lead a small team of explorers across procedurally generated lands in a fantastical 19th century, juggling supplies and sanity. Random events and tough risk-versus-reward choices make every expedition different.

Through the Darkest of Times

Strong, story-driven narrative

You lead a resistance group in Nazi-era Berlin from 1933 to 1945, managing resources, members and missions. Every hard moral decision plays out in a haunting, expressionist-styled historical drama.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Runs that play out differently every time

You captain a starship on the run, rerouting power, directing crew and making tough calls in pausable real-time battles. Every run is procedurally generated, brutally tense and often ends in glorious failure.

Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out

Strong, story-driven narrative

A text-heavy blend of interactive fiction and turn-based clan strategy in a mythic Bronze Age world that is coming to an end. Your decisions about gods, alliances and survival shape your clan's fate.

Insurmountable

Pure single-player experience

As a lone mountaineer you climb a randomly generated mountain, carefully managing stamina, gear and shifting weather. Each ascent is a tense planning and survival challenge with roguelike randomness.

This Is the Police

Strong, story-driven narrative

As aging police chief Jack Boyd, you dispatch officers, manage staff, and make morally murky choices while scraping together retirement money over 180 days. A grim noir tale of corruption and guilt told in a stylish silhouette art style.

Crying Suns

Strong, story-driven narrative

As a fleet commander you cross a collapsed star empire in a roguelite built around tactical, pausable space battles. Each run reveals more of a story in the vein of Dune and Foundation.

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