Lantern Delve

Tactical roguelikeStrategy

Carry your lantern down a dungeon where every monster shows its next move. Dodge, bash them into lava, trick them into hitting each other, and see how deep you can go.

  • Free to play
  • No download or sign-up
  • Phone, tablet and desktop

How to play

Tap a square next to you to step there, or tap a monster next to you to hit it. Each time you act, every monster acts once. Red squares show where they will strike next turn, so do not end your turn on one. Bash shoves every monster around you one square away: into lava it burns, and into a wall or another monster it gets hurt. Dash leaps up to three squares in a line and hits a monster at the end. Both need a few turns to recharge. Take the stairs to go deeper and pick an upgrade. Clear every monster on a floor to heal a heart.

Questions and answers

Is Lantern Delve free?

Yes. Lantern Delve is free to play, with no download and no sign-up.

Can I play Lantern Delve on my phone?

Yes. Lantern Delve runs in the browser on phones, tablets and computers.

Is Lantern Delve a single-player game?

Yes. Lantern Delve is played solo. For two or more players, see the two-player games.

What games are like Lantern Delve?

Other Strategy games on PlayHall: Rune Duel, Corner Office, Banner Duel.

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Pea Patrol

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Row-hopping shooter

Splash Tycoon

Grow a duck water park from one paddling pool to a rocket plunge. It keeps earning while you are away.

Idle tycoon

Snowbound Sled

Otters race a sled 600 km to Spring Valley with a storm on their tail. Pick a pace, fish for food, choose your route.

Journey survival

Glacier Clans

Three clans, one frozen map. Lead the Penguins, out-march the Walruses and Puffins, and take every fort.

Real-time conquest

Bloom Merge

Bees run a flower shop. Merge seeds into tulips, roses and golden trees to fill their orders.

Merge garden

Meadow Days

A hillside farm run by a hedgehog. Plant, water and harvest, collect eggs, and fill village orders.

Farm life

Moonlight Bistro

Cat customers drift into a rooftop diner after dark. Grill, stack and pour fast enough to hit the night's goal.

Cooking rush

Ink Spirits

Ink spirits spill off an old scroll. Paint their glyphs with your brush to wash them away.

Brush-glyph battler

Sprout Hop

Bo the bean sprout bounces skyward on leaves, drifting clouds and springs. Don't look down.

Endless jumper

Gem Duel

Every match is a spell. Chain combos to topple a parade of candy monsters before they strike back.

Match-3 battle

Hive Hollow

Plant a meadow, raise a buzzing hive, and swat the wasps that come to steal your honey.

Beekeeping idle

Lantern Cards

The classic three-player landlord card game. Take on Fox and Raccoon at a lantern-lit table.

Card battle

Snail Turf

Racing snails paint the garden. Loop out of your patch and back to claim everything inside the loop.

Territory loops

Little Fin

A tiny reef fish with a big appetite. Eat smaller fish, dodge bigger ones, and grow from fry into a giant.

Eat and grow

Teacup Sage

A frog sage meditating in a teacup climbs the misty mountain, one auto-battle at a time.

Idle cultivation RPG

Lighthouse Watch

Crab armies crawl up the beach toward the old lighthouse. Build seagull posts, bubble cannons and net throwers along the path.

Tower defense

Panda Dojo

A young panda takes on a ladder of masters. Read each wind-up, answer it, and strike the moment they are open.

Timing duel

Raft Days

A capybara on a tiny raft. Hook what floats by, build outward, stay fed, and keep the shark off the planks for 30 days.

Ocean survival

Pocket Brigade

Wind-up toys go to war on the playroom floor. Buy, merge and place your brigade, then let the springs do the rest.

Auto-battler

Duckling Parade

Mother Duck leads her brood down the river path. Pick the right gates to grow the parade, then face the fox at the end.

Crowd runner

Kettle Alchemy

An old tea kettle that brews anything. Start with water, fire, earth and air, and discover 44 more.

Discovery crafting

Calm Mayor

You are mayor of a very unlucky little town. Put out fires, mop up floods and chase thieves before everyone panics.

Crisis tapper

Banner Duel

Two warlords, three mountain passes, six cards each. Out-think a ladder of animal generals one pass at a time.

Lane card duel

Starfall Ranger

A fox ranger races across a meteor-struck desert, blaster always firing. Jump the crawlers, shoot the drones, topple the bosses.

Run and gun

Spirit Gourd

Mischief spirits roam the mountain roads. Time your gourd just right to catch all twelve for the album.

Timing capture

Egg Stack

A super-hen stacks egg crates to the clouds. Drop each crate at the right moment, because any overhang falls off.

Timing stacker

Lane Dash

A bear courier sprints through the market with her cub on her back. Switch lanes, hop fences, grab honey drops.

Lane runner

Anvil Rhythm

A mole blacksmith hammers out swords, axes and spears. Strike on the beat, keep the forge hot, and hit each customer's quality mark.

Timing forge

Shopper Sort

Opening day at a four-floor department store. Every shopper wants one floor, so get them there fast.

Routing rush

Seal Sequence

A restless spirit tests a young exorcist. Watch the seals glow, then repeat the pattern to bind it.

Memory sequence

Junkyard Survivor

A raccoon tinkerer is trapped in a junkyard full of rust-bots. Scavenge bolts, bolt on gadgets, and last three minutes.

Horde survival

Corner Office

A fresh-faced intern otter at a busy firm. Every choice nudges four meters. Keep them all balanced and climb to CEO.

Swipe decisions

Tap Knights

Tap the monster, collect gold, hire a hedgehog knight. Then a rabbit archer. Then a dragon. Watch the numbers climb.

Clicker RPG

Season 2048

Slide the garden. Two seeds make a sprout, two sprouts a blossom, all the way up to an evergreen.

Sliding merge

Junk Drawer

Grandma's kitchen drawer holds everything. Find the five things she asked for before the kettle boils.

Hidden objects

Not So Simple

Nine tiny puzzles that look easy and are not. Think sideways, drag things, and read the question twice.

Trick puzzles

Doodle Shield

Pebbles are about to rain down on a sleepy duckling. You get one stroke of ink. Draw a shelter that holds.

Draw to protect

Escort Duty

A gentle monk strolls the mountain road, and every bandit wants his rice bowl. You are the monkey with the staff.

Tap defense

Rune Duel

A young rune-caster faces a tower of guardians. Every guardian shows its next move, so outsmart it one turn at a time.

Intent duel

Flicker Flight

A tiny flame escapes the lantern and drifts through an ice cave. One tap to rise. Touch the ice and it is out.

One-tap flyer

Tile Trio

A garden picnic piled in tiles. Pick three of a kind to clear them, before the tray fills up.

Tile triple-match

Bullseye Breeze

A squirrel archer on a windy hilltop. Pull, aim, account for the breeze, and hit the target as it sways.

Wind archery

Bolt Out

A pile of wooden plates held together with coloured bolts. Unscrew them into the right boxes and clear the workbench.

Screw sort

Hotpot Scoop

The pot bubbles, the ingredients bob, and hungry penguins want their bowls just right.

Scoop and serve

Sand Jars

Souvenir jars of coloured sand, all mixed up. Pour layer by layer until every jar holds one colour.

Sand colour sort

Partner Cards

You and Owl play as partners against Badger and Hare. Two decks, big bombs, and the first team to empty a hand wins.

Partnership cards

Fruit Drop

Drop fruit into the crate. Two cherries make a strawberry, two strawberries make a grape, all the way up to a watermelon.

Physics merge

Fruit Worm

A hungry worm in an orchard. Every fruit makes it longer and faster. Don't bite your own tail.

Grid snake

Sand Blocks

Blocks fall, land and crumble into coloured sand. Join one colour from wall to wall and the whole stretch washes away.

Falling sand blocks

Sand Garden

A zen garden in a glass frame. Pour sand to match the faint landscape behind it: peaks, dunes and craters.

Sand sculpting

Lotus Five

Pink blooms against moon-white ones on a still pond. Five flowers in a line, any direction, takes the match.

Five in a row

Firefly Four

Amber fireflies against blue ones in a lattice of glass jars. Line up four glows before your rival does.

Four in a row

Lily Flip

Green frogs and pink frogs claim a pond one lily pad at a time. Sandwich a row of rival pads and they flip to your side.

Flip and capture

Fence Pals

Two shepherds share one meadow and a pile of fence. Finish the fourth side of a pen and its sheep is yours, and you go again.

Dots and pens

Kite Race

Four kite clubs race their kites around the sky and up their own home wind. Up to four players, robots fill the empty corners.

Dice race, 2 to 4

Puck Pond

Two penguins, one slippery puck, and a pond frozen glass-smooth. Bank shots off the snowbanks and slide it into the far goal.

Air hockey

Sumo Slimes

Two jelly wrestlers on a straw-rope ring. Wobble, feint and dash-shove your rival over the edge.

Push-out sumo

Mole Hunt

Two gardeners, two hidden mole families. Dig where you think the tunnels run and uncover every mole before yours are found.

Hidden tunnels

Noodle Arena

Eight glowing noodles, one round arena, two and a half minutes. Eat sparks to grow, then curl around rivals so they bump into you.

Arena slither

Bounce Volley

A peach bun and a matcha bun play rooftop volleyball with a bouncy rice ball. Keep it off your side and spike it past the net.

Bun volleyball

Buddy Paths

Little animals got separated from their buddies. Draw a path to bring each pair together, without crossing, and fill the whole meadow.

Connect the pairs

Carrom Club

The family board game of verandas and clubs across South Asia. Flick your striker, sink your nine coins and win the red queen before your rival does.

Carrom, 2 players

Eight Ball Lounge

A late-night pool lounge with a green velvet table. Claim solids or stripes, clear your set and sink the black 8 to take the frame.

8-ball pool, 2 players

Rainbow Rush

The classic family card race: match the colour or the symbol, hit your rivals with skips and draw cards, and be first to empty your hand.

Match the colour, 2 to 4

Brain Owl

Professor Owl has 15 puzzles for you: patterns, numbers, shapes and memory. Finish the test and get your Brain Score.

Reasoning test

Gulp Town

A hungry little sinkhole in a toy town. Swallow cones and crates, grow, then gulp cars, buses and whole houses before the rival holes do.

Hungry hole

Pie Toss

A raccoon chef tests every pie with a fork. Throw them into the spinning crust, but never hit a fork that is already in.

Fork thrower

Prism Hop

A firefly glows one colour at a time. Hop it up through spinning rings and sliding bars, but only through the part that matches your glow.

Colour gate jumper

Hoppy Crossing

A brave chick wants to see what is on the other side. Hop across busy roads, ride logs over rivers, and dodge the trains.

Road crosser

Otter Bubbles

An otter with a bubble wand clears the sky over the bay. Match three bubbles of a colour to pop them, and anything left hanging falls with them.

Bubble shooter

Biscuit Blocks

A badger baker fills the cooling tray with biscuit shapes. Complete a row or a column and it crumbles away. Clear several at once for big combos.

Block placer

Mini Putt

Nine holes of mini golf in a hedgehog's back garden. Bank off the walls, steer clear of the pond, and sink it in as few putts as you can.

Mini golf

Hoop Flick

A bear in high-tops shoots hoops against the clock. Flick the ball up, sink it clean for a swish, and keep the streak going when the hoop starts to move.

Flick basketball

Star Swarm

A fox pilot holds the line against a swarm of space beetles. Weave through their fire, grab power-ups, and take down the queen every fifth wave.

Space shooter

Vine Swing

A little monkey crosses the jungle without touching the ground. Hold to grab a vine, let go at the top of the swing, and fly as far as you can.

Swing runner

Meadow Sweeper

A mole gardener digs up the meadow, but wasp nests hide under the grass. Read the numbers, flag the nests with flowers, and clear every safe square.

Mine sweeper

Brick Breeze

A seal on a surfboard bounces a beach ball into walls of candy bricks. Catch the power-ups for a wider board, extra balls and a slower ball.

Brick breaker

Sudoku Garden

A tortoise gardener plants numbers in neat beds. Fill the grid so each row, column and box holds one to nine. A new puzzle every time.

Number grid

Penalty Shootout

Pick your country and settle it from the spot. Shoot, then go in goal, and outguess your rival over five kicks each.

Shootout duel

Clover Solitaire

The classic card patience, with a fresh Daily Deal every day that everyone shares. Every deal can be won, so keep your streak going.

Klondike patience

Jade Mahjong

Match free tiles in pairs to clear the garden. New boards every level, a Daily Garden for everyone, and stars for fast clears.

Mahjong solitaire

Pixel Picnic

Use the number clues to colour in a hidden picture, square by square. A new Daily Picture every day, and a ladder of puzzles from small to large.

Picture logic

Breeze FreeCell

The thinking player's patience. Every card is face up, so every deal is pure skill, and each one has been checked to be winnable.

FreeCell patience

Silk Spider

The famous two-deck patience. Build runs from King down to Ace to spin them away, with one, two or four suits for every mood.

Spider patience

Peak Patience

Clear three snowy peaks of cards by playing one higher or one lower. Long chains score big, and every deal can be cleared.

TriPeaks patience

Fairway Golf

A breezy round of card golf. Clear seven columns by playing one higher or one lower, and finish under par with cards to spare.

Golf patience

Crown Garden

Place one crown in every row, every column and every flower bed, with no two crowns touching. A fresh Daily Puzzle every day.

Queens logic

Zip Trail

Draw a single trail that fills the whole grid and passes the numbered stones in order. Quick, calming, and new every day.

Path logic

Sun & Moon

Fill the grid with suns and moons so every line is balanced, never three alike in a row. A calm logic puzzle with a new Daily Puzzle every day.

Sun and moon logic

Camp Tents

Pitch one tent next to every tree, guided by the numbers on each row and column. A cosy logic puzzle with a fresh Daily Puzzle every day.

Tents and trees logic

Island Bridges

Link the islands with bridges so every island has as many as its number, all in one network. A relaxing logic puzzle, new every day.

Bridge logic

Sky Towers

Build a little city where every row and column has one tower of each height, and the clues tell you how many towers you can see. New every day.

Skyscraper logic

Greater Grove

A number grid where the little arrows between squares say which is bigger. Fill every row and column with each number once. New every day.

Greater-than logic

Fleet Finder

A whole fleet hides in the bay. Use the numbers on each row and column to find every ship. A fresh Daily Puzzle every day.

Battleship logic

Lantern Lights

Light every lantern in the night garden. Each tap flips a lantern and its neighbours, so plan ahead and match par for three stars.

Light flipping puzzle

Flood Garden

Spread one colour across the whole flower bed from the top corner, in as few moves as you can. Quick to learn, tricky to master.

Colour flood puzzle

Parking Jam

The car park is jammed. Slide the cars and trucks out of the way and drive the red car to the exit. Every puzzle is solvable, and par is the real minimum.

Traffic sliding puzzle

Sweet Snip

A hungry frog is waiting for its sweet. Swipe to cut the ropes, swing the sweet past the stars and drop it right in its mouth.

Rope-cutting physics

Pier Pinball

A pinball table at the end of the pier. Light the S-E-A lanes for a bigger multiplier, knock down the fish targets and keep the ball out of the sea.

Pinball table

Lantern Delve

Carry your lantern down a dungeon where every monster shows its next move. Dodge, bash them into lava, trick them into hitting each other, and see how deep you can go.

Tactical roguelike