Hollow Lantern

Hollow Lantern is a quiet, atmospheric adventure that leans on mood more than action. You guide a small figure through dim ruins, using your lantern to expose paths and solve gentle environmental puzzles. There's barely any text, and the game trusts you to poke around and figure things out.

Controls are a virtual stick and a single interact button, which is about as simple as it gets. The settings menu is small but has the essentials — brightness (important, given how dark it is), left-handed layout, and a colorblind-friendly filter for the puzzles.

It runs beautifully and sips battery, since the art is stylized and the pace is slow. The only downside is length: I finished it in about four hours. But those four hours were lovely, and I'd rather have a tight adventure than a padded one.

What we liked

• Gorgeous, calm atmosphere
• Left-handed and colorblind-friendly options
• Very light on battery