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Paper Lantern

A hand-drawn story told in fifteen rooms.

  • Released
  • Out now — premium, no in-app purchases
  • Narrative puzzle
Screenshots
  • Download on theApp StoreURL pending
  • Get it onGoogle PlayURL pending

About Paper Lantern

Paper Lantern is a finite game. Fifteen rooms, one street, one night. Every puzzle is built from objects already visible in the room, and nothing is hidden behind a pixel hunt.

The art is drawn on paper and scanned, so the frame rate of the animation is intentionally low and the grain moves. We built the renderer around that rather than against it.

There is no account, no purchase and no network call. The game is sold once and contains everything.

Point and clickHand-drawnSingle sitting

01Trailer

Cinematic trailer

The trailer is on its way. This frame is replaced as soon as the cut is published.

02Gameplay

How it plays

  • 01

    Finite by design

    Fifteen rooms, roughly two hours, one ending. Nothing is extended after purchase.

  • 02

    No account, no network

    The game never opens a connection. There is nothing to delete because nothing is collected.

  • 03

    Drawn on paper

    Every frame is scanned artwork. The renderer is built around the grain, not despite it.

03Screenshots

In game

Landscape and portrait captures are laid out at different widths because they are genuinely different deliverables. Select one to open it full size.

04Artwork

Key art and characters

PORTRAIT KEY ART — PAPER LANTERN placeholder, 1200 by 1600 pixels
PORTRAIT KEY ART — PAPER LANTERN · 1200×1600
CHARACTER ART — LAMPLIGHTER placeholder, 1200 by 1600 pixels
CHARACTER ART — LAMPLIGHTER · 1200×1600
GAME KEY ART — PAPER LANTERN placeholder, 1920 by 1080 pixels
GAME KEY ART — PAPER LANTERN · 1920×1080

05Reception

Awards and reviews

  • [FESTIVAL SELECTION]

    [FESTIVAL NAME] · [YEAR]

  • [PULL QUOTE FROM PUBLISHED REVIEW — DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL SOURCED]

    [OUTLET NAME]

06Help and data

Support, privacy and your account

These are the routes we hand to the stores for this title. Each one resolves to a page written for this game rather than a generic help desk.

Support for Paper Lantern

Technical problems, purchases, lost progress and bug reports, filtered to this title.

Open support

/support?game=paper-lantern

Privacy for Paper Lantern

What this title collects, why, and who else sees it. This title makes no analytics calls.

Privacy details

/legal/privacy#game-paper-lantern

No account to delete

This title never creates an account and sends nothing off your device, so there is no account or server-side data to delete.

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