Lantern Hollow

Keep the fire lit. Lantern Hollow is a small voxel survival game with one rule. By day you chop wood, forage and craft at the workbench. At dusk you feed the campfire. After dark the gloomlings gather at the edge of the light and wait for it to shrink. Every log you burn buys you ground, and the ground you can't light is theirs.

This is a free browser demo: a snapshot of alpha v0.0.20 as it stood on 13 September 2026. No account, no download, and it stays free for good. Your save stays in this browser.

What's in it

• The full day and night survival loop
• Workbench crafting that upgrades through tiers, and cooking on the barbecue
• A wandering trader who buys pelts
• Four creatures, each with its own bestiary lore
• An isometric view and a 3D view you can switch between
• Keyboard and mouse, controller, and touch controls

The free alpha is closing

From 21 September 2026 Lantern Hollow becomes a paid alpha at £4.99. That buys every alpha and beta build through to launch, plus a Steam key when it ships, and it's the only way to keep getting updates after that date. This demo stays up regardless.

Latest builds for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, the roadmap, and a public bug tracker where testers vote on what gets fixed next are all at lanternhollowgame.com. You can also play this same snapshot at lanternhollowgame.com/play.

Solo developed by Your Ikigai. Found a bug or have an idea? Send it through the report form and it goes straight into the issue tracker.