Lanternfall

How to play

You carry the last lantern through a haunted night. You only walk: your weapons hit the shadows on their own. Walk over glowing embers to fill the bar at the top, and each time it fills you pick an upgrade card. At the end of the night a big boss appears. Beat it and dawn breaks. If your health runs out, the night is over. A Quick Run lasts 8 minutes and a Full Night lasts 15.

On a computer, walk with WASD, the arrow keys or a mouse drag. Press 1 to 4 to pick a card, R to reroll and Esc or P to pause. On a phone, slide your finger anywhere to walk and tap a card to pick it.

Tips and tricks

• To evolve a weapon, raise it to level 8 and own its partner relic, then open a chest after the first boss. The cards show each weapon's partner.
• Gold-ringed shadows are tough elites that drop a treasure chest. Extra elites added by Curses drop gold instead.
• Hearth cake heals, Lodestar pulls every ember to you, Frost chime freezes all shadows for a moment, and a Dawn shard clears every shadow on screen except bosses.
• Keep moving. Bosses and strong shadows warn you with pink rings, red paths or a shadow on the ground. Step out of the marked area.
• You keep your gold even when you lose. Spend it in the Lamplighters' Guild on upgrades such as Might, Vitality or Second Wick, which relights you once per run.

What makes it fun

Lanternfall is easy to start, since you only steer, but every run is a choice of which cards to take. Weapons pair with relics to evolve into much stronger forms. Every run brings home gold for lasting upgrades.