Lanterns of the Hollow deserves your attention

I don't want to spoil anything about Lanterns of the Hollow, because half its charm is discovery. But I do want to convince you to play it, so let me talk around the edges.

The puzzles never insult you. Every solution follows from something you've seen in the environment, which means those satisfying 'oh, of course' moments happen constantly instead of you resorting to a walkthrough.

What stayed with me was the mood. The fog, the flickering lanterns, the way the village slowly reveals its story through small details. It's a game that trusts you to notice things.

It's short, maybe three or four hours, and I mean that as praise. It says what it needs to and ends before it wears out its welcome. Play it in a dark room with headphones.