The Red Lantern
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $10.87/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 9600GT or equivalent / 1 GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 44 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Pale Beyond ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats No Place Like Home ($19.99, scores 48).
This site sampled 451 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 85 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 8, 3.6 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
65% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I am honestly surprised I have not reviewed The Red Lantern yet, especially considering how much I love this game and how much I have played it. This is easily one of my favorite games, and I recommend it to pretty much anyone who is interested in survival games, dogs, or just something more relaxing. I actually did not know until recently that the voice actor for the main character is the same voice actor as Chloe...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Red Lantern scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1053710/the-red-lanternReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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