Games like The Red Lantern
If The Red Lantern is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fateweaver: Smash or Pass, Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey and Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customizable dogs, chill and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About The Red Lantern: The Red Lantern is a narrative, dog sledding game about survival. You play as the Musher who, along with her team of 5 sled dogs, must find her way home. Care for your dogs, discover their stories, and learn how to navigate the unknowns of the Alaskan wilderness and prepare for your new life.
Players who liked The Red Lantern also play
Steam players who put hours into The Red Lantern also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Fateweaver: Smash or Pass
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
You are The Fateweaver; an ancient beast of legendary status. It is your job to determine which way Fate will unravel as you dig deep into the psyche of those who beckon. Decide whether to help those who beg for your mercy, or invoke the wrath of the Gods upon those you deem unworthy of existence...
Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
London, 1888: The people of Whitechapel live under the ghastly shadow of Jack the Ripper, tempting Arthurian legends - Du Lac & Fey - back to English shores to intervene. Will they stop Jack before more blood is spilt on the cobbled streets? Victorian London awaits you...
Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Infected Love: The Fatal Experiment is not just a survival game — it’s a fusion of horror, romance, and unforgettable choices. Are you ready to confess your love… when the world is falling apart?
Beacon Pines
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Farewell North
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Play as a border collie and restore color to your human’s world in an atmospheric journey through the northern isles of Scotland. Explore land and sea, uncover hidden paths, herd animals and free wildlife to bring color back to her world, while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.
花奴令 Huanu Poems
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with The Red Lantern.
Ranked #7 for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Huanu Poems is a multi-ending love adventure game. As a photographer, carrying the secret of being a bloodline inheritor of HuaNu Town, you will take lovely Peach to run a B&B, encounter gentle Cloudia. Your choices will affect the direction of the story.
Beauties! They're All After Me
WHY THIS
Shares replayability with The Red Lantern.
Ranked #8 for The Red Lantern fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
In this thrilling romance game, players are a working-class hero meeting six girls: a loli, a mature woman, a housewife, a soft girl, a domineering CEO, and a cute, naive girl. As he gets involved with them, he awakens a cheating system—can you believe it?! Make your final choice now!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Red Lantern at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Red Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Red Lantern.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Red Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Red Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Red Lantern.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under The Red Lantern on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Red Lantern.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Red Lantern on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Red Lantern.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Red Lantern.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Red Lantern.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Red Lantern.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Red Lantern.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Beacon Pines
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
The Test: Secrets of the Soul
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal things from deep within. Some will be uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and are you SURE you want the answers you seek? For it is time to unlock "Secrets of the Soul..."
Farewell North
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Red Lantern.
Play as a border collie and restore color to your human’s world in an atmospheric journey through the northern isles of Scotland. Explore land and sea, uncover hidden paths, herd animals and free wildlife to bring color back to her world, while revealing an emotional story about saying farewell.
Frequently asked about The Red Lantern
- Is The Red Lantern verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Red Lantern is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Red Lantern cost?
- The Red Lantern is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Red Lantern?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Red Lantern are Fateweaver: Smash or Pass, Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey, Infected Love : The Fatal Experiment .
- Who developed The Red Lantern?
- The Red Lantern was developed by Timberline Studio and published by Kepler Interactive.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Red Lantern.
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