Lantern Forge

« Believe me when I say you will sink days into this game. I got so wrapped up in playing it that I forgot to write the review and if that doesn’t say much for it’s wonderful mix of minecraft style building and RPG then I don’t know how to convince you. »

« My wife and I bought this game several days ago. We've managed to lose a good amount of sleep. This game is so addicting. The game as it is for us would be a 10! if we could visit each other's world and play co-op. Even if the game never becomes playable over a network, it is now and will ever be one of our favorites. We have played Diablo to Diablo III and games like minecraft. This is definitely a wonderful combination of everything we like in all of our games in one. »

« I would give this game a solid 9 rating if the controls were a bit more friendly and if it wasn't laggy when generating new parts of the map. A very solid sandbox survival type game. Crafting/Farming/Building and Exploration as well as a ton of enemies to fight. A really great concept that is very very close to being great overall. »

« Aside for sometimes **** controls, this is a very enjoyable games in the vein of Minecraft or Rust with the nice inclusion of levelling up your character with RPG elements. Cast fireballs or shoot arrows or just hit sheep with a big hammer, it is really up to you. I haven't seen all the crafting there is to do, or seen all the combat skills and not even scratched the surface of this game. For the price of a budget game, there appears to be an awful lot to do. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in it so far and look forward to playing further. »

« I found Lantern Forge two weeks ago and have wracked up 38 hours playing it. I am in love with the crafting, gathering materials to craft with, exploring the depths below and fighting beasties. It is everything I wanted from Minecraft with near mouse-only controls. There's a lot to explore and every depth below ground has randomly generated dungeons you can loot and kill beasties in. You can even mine their walls to use to build your own buildings top-side as well as take paintings and tapestries off the walls to sell or decorate your place with. Definitely well worth the $10 price tag on steam! »

« I like the Crafting, exploring the world and LF has it!! Takes the feel of a classic RPG and combines it with randomly generated worlds and an extensive crafting system. Definitely would recommend! (in fact i think i am right now) »

« OMG, where has this Gem **** been hiding. I've been after a game like this for sooo loooong.. An open Sandbox RPG survival game that just seems to have the right balance of gathering, building , crafting, exploring, 90 level underground so i hear, I haven't been anywhere near that low yet. , combat, skill trees, health, vitality. nice graphics. Randomly generated world at the start of the game, multiple save slots, be male or female. and cheap too.. I only have one arm too. and other games are so hard for me to play but all the controls in this game can be quite easily accessed by me. Fantastic. More later as i get deeper into the game »

« I would really love to rate this game higher. It has the potential to be a superb title in what is a niche genre and has all the things we fans love about the genre - the building and crafting, monsters and combat, and loot and exploration, all without being an outright clone to similar games. Not to mention it is pretty. But it has two major flaws that for me, make the game almost unplayable. The first and most game breaking of the two being the constant need to draw the surrounding area, even when in familiar territory. Every few steps yields unplayable lag for a few seconds while "Generating Map." Secondly the controls could really be fleshed out to accommodate the laptop user. As it is the game is frustrating to play if using a touchpad and there is no way around this (without resorting to a mouse of course). I would very much love to see these two issues be addressed because the game is truly worthy of a much higher score. »

« Lantern Forge is a great little indie gem. If Mincraft and Diablo had a top down isometric baby this would be it. You collect resources, craft items, build structures, dig underground and fight monsters. Throw in skills and abilities and you have a game well worth it's price. »