The Red Lantern's chill sledding adventure would be better if less stuff happened in it

3 years 6 months ago

A screenshot of the player character petting Iggy, a big white husky, in The Red Lantern

D’you like dogs? I like dogs. How about five dogs? Hot diggidy daffodil, now we’re talking. In The Red Lantern you’re a musher who has decided to adopt a bunch of sled dogs and take ’em over the Alaskan wilderness to a distant cabin that you’re pretty sure definitely 100% exists. This is, of course, how idiots die. Solo sled across Alaska, they said! It’s easy, they said!

But even though I knew this was a roguelite survival adventure going in, I wasn’t expecting there to be quite so much adventuring to it and so little chill sledding with my dogs.

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Author
Alice Bell