Lantern Deep
Descend into a living cave with nothing but a lantern, a rope and your nerve, and get out before the oil runs dry.
In development
About the game
Lantern Deep is a precision cave-diving platformer from Brodie Labs, inspired by the classic home-computer platformers of the 1980s and rebuilt for today. Each chamber is a hand-tuned puzzle of ropes, ledges, locked doors and falling drips. Your lantern's oil is your clock: plan your route, grab the keys in the right order, and reach the exit before the light goes out.
The deeper you go, the stranger the cave gets. Ride rickety mine lifts and swing across spike pits on hanging ropes. Outrun a flood rising from below, flee a cave-in sweeping through the tunnels, and hurtle through a minecart run. In the darkest depths, face the giant cave spider in her lair. Along the way you'll collect gold to spend in the shop, find a pickaxe to break into hidden treasure rooms, and hunt down rare 1UPs tucked into the hardest corners.
Every chamber is tested to be tough but fair. Every jump has room for human timing, and every hazard can be beaten with skill rather than luck. Lantern Deep is a game about reading the cave, learning its rhythm, and going one level deeper than last time.
Highlights
- 73 handcrafted and procedurally built chambers, with set pieces including floods, cave-ins, a minecart run, a swinging-rope gallery and a boss fight
- Lantern oil is your timer: refill it, carry spare flasks in your backpack, and upgrade your lantern to see further
- Gear up in the shop with boots, guardian charms, compasses, backpacks and more, paid for with the gold you find
- Secrets everywhere: find the pickaxe and break into hidden rooms of treasure and extra lives
- Fair by design: every level is machine-tested to be beatable with real human reflexes