Equin: The Lantern

An excellent roguelike that is deceptively deep. Don't let the cute graphics fool you, this game requires patience, knowledge, and good decision making skills. I have a few dozen runs so far in this game and feel all 3 classes (Warrior, Thief, and Wizard) are distinct, balanced, and fun. And make no mistake, while this game has a unique take on roguelike mechanics, it's very much a true roguelike; it's turn based, has intense resource management, and every run is totally different. For example, I just lost a good run as a Warrior because I fished too much. Yes, seriously. You can fish if you have the fishing pole item, which is a great and extremely reliable source of, well, fish, which heal you and replenish your stamina (which you need to do virtually everything aside from moving,) but I carelessly fished over, and over, and over, until my stamina was very low.... when suddenly I fished up a fucking dragon. Well, I probably could've handled it, if it weren't for the fact that I had ...

[b][i]Equin: The Lantern[/i] is a strange game from the quite underappreciated indie dev Del Duio.[/b] Now, straight off the bat I will say that I 100% highly recommend [i]Equin[/i] to anyone that likes roguelikes proper. Don't confuse this with roguelites - we are talking turn-based gameplay of delving into a dungeon with permadeath. The difference between a veteran and a novice player is knowledge of the system, [i]NetHack[/i]-style. [b]Now with this recommendation comes the caveat that there are many [i]many[/i] rough edges in here.[/b] So many that it can be a bit frustrating at times. Perhaps the rough edges are holding this title back from more universal praise and greatness. I'll list it all below for the potential customer, as well as Del Duio. [i]Essentially, this has all the underpinnings of a classic roguelike.[/i] There are several character builds you can choose from. The usual suspects are all here; the tank, the wizard, the thief, etc. You have hit points, stamina (use...

[h1] Overview [/h1] Equin: The Lantern is a retro style roguelike game that puts you on a quest to obtain a mysterious lantern of unknown origin and design. You’ll be tasked with conquering 50 levels of a seemingly never-ending dungeon, delving deeper and deeper, amassing fortune and cheating death the entire time in turn-based combat. With its pixelated graphics that are feel reminiscent of old Dragon Warrior titles, Equin: The Lantern provides an interesting experience into the unforgiving realm of old-styled games and with a healthy dose of modern day twists and turns. Solve the mystery of the lantern phases and discover what it all means, or die horribly trying. This review will cover a range of emotions, as they changed drastically the more I played. In the beginning, Equin: The Lantern didn’t strike me as something I found all that interesting. I’m not sure what drew me to it initially, but on my first few playthroughs I didn’t know what I was doing and found myself fr...

[b]A brief review based on the first impressions after a couple of hours in the game. A complete, detailed review will follow up in the (hopefully, not so distant) future.[/b] Equin: The Lantern is a top-down dungeon crawler, where player as a brave fellow with rabbit ears should descend into the dungeon to locate the mysterious Lantern. No one knows what it's for and what it does, but it's certainly evil, it worries the townsfolk, and therefore it should be found and dealt with asap.  First thing I should mention is that the game won't use fullscreen resolution, there are only two graphics option - small window or slightly bigger window. The pixel graphics, however, looks nice in both of these. The game starts with selecting one of the four classes - Warrior, Thief, Wizard and Cleric. A pretty standard choice. Differences between them will become more and more significant on a later levels. The mysterious fifth class  will be unlocked later, its identity is not revealed...

Man, I suck with sales pitches. It's not given me buyer's remorse like most of my steam library? That's gotta count for something. --- If you don't mind the GBC-esque pixel art and chiptunes (pretty much what sold me on it), you get a solid roguelike/dungeon-crawler that's easy to pick up and play with a good amount of content for the price. --- Game's got an itchy page with a demo if you'd rather take a look yourself. Check it out: https://del-duio.itch.io/equin-the-lantern-demo

I really enjoy this game, it is my current favorite "quickplay" game. With recent updates it seems the difficulty balance is slightly better. I'm allergic to patch notes so that may be untrue, I may be delusional. The developer is still updating enthusiastically, it meets conventional rogue gameplay traits. I play it regularly

A super fun, thoroughly charming & bite-sized roguelike! It's quite addictive and feels very complete, there's a surprising amount of depth that's only going to reveal itself through multiple runs. While the viewing area is rather tiny (you only see two tiles ahead in any direction), the game received a most welcome "widescreen" update awhile ago which afforded more space for displaying text. The dev's attention to detail shows, this game is an obvious labour of love like the rest of the DFX Games catalog. It continues to receive substantial updates, one of the most recent being the addition of calendar-specific special events. Definitely recommended! :)

FFS there's no Game Over tune... on the other hand, it was 99p. a substandard Dragon crystal but it has some funny jokes and is cheap and isn't anathemic to all creation. the music is OK when it's there.

A great dungeon-perma-crawler-death featuring Bunnies of various traditional rabbit professions. It constantly reminds me of the white frock wearing ones who are at your door annoying you and handing out pamphlets, or the sword totting ones you see in spring(their usual 'grailing season), or the dagger wielding ones mugging you for carrots. Even those annoying Mage ones who keep you up at night chanting invocations to the Elder Gods, are represented in this lovely game. But Seriously its well worth the small price of admission. Trust me you could do alot worse for five times the cost.

i like game