HL Hollow Lantern

A vigil on the foggy hillside

Hollow Lantern

Which graveyard?

Your best friend went ghost-hunting at midnight and never came back. They're trapped somewhere among five graveyards on the hillside above town — and only one of them is right. Carry your lantern, read what the dead are willing to tell you, and find your friend before the sun comes up.

W A S D walk Shift run Mouse look E search Esc free the cursor

Hollow Lantern is built for a keyboard and mouse — best played on a desktop.

Hall of Fame — fastest vigils

No vigil has ended in dawn's grace yet — be the first to bring your friend home.

Your notebook

Your notebook is blank

Search tombstones, gates and props around each graveyard — anything you find is written down here.
How to play

Five graveyards ring the hillside. Your friend is trapped in exactly one of them — a fresh one is chosen every vigil.

Move with W A S D, hold Shift to run, and look around with the mouse once you click into the scene.

Walk close to a glowing clue and press E to search it. Footprints, dropped flashlights, scratched messages and whispering ghosts all say something — some confirm a graveyard, some rule one out, some just set the mood.

Each graveyard's tall lantern-lit marker is where you commit to a guess. The right one ends your search. The wrong one wakes something restless — you'll lose time and take a strike. Three strikes, or the sun itself, ends the vigil.

Whiskers the cat waits near the crossroads and speaks in riddles, free of charge, if you're stuck.