LANTERNBOUND: Turn Based Lantern JRPG, Free in Browser
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Role Playing. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
LANTERNBOUND: Turn Based Lantern JRPG, Free in Browser is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
LANTERNBOUND is a turn based JRPG for a party of 3 and one oil lantern that burns down the whole time you are out on the moor road. The whole game is free to play in your browser on this page, and the paid download is the same game as a Windows build you keep and play offline. The lantern is the light, the fuel and the information While the lantern is lit you can read what the thing in front of you is about to do.
When it goes out, the telegraph turns into three question marks and you are guessing. Every ability does its job and pushes a colour onto the lantern: EMBER, AZURE, VERDANT or PALE. The lantern holds three, in order, with the oldest falling off. Enemies telegraph each attack as a sequence of those colours, and matching it breaks the attack before it lands.
So the real decision is the order the party acts in: 4 colours in a 3 slot ordered stack make 64 reachable states. Choose the action, then hit the mark as the bar sweeps. A perfect press hits harder and feeds the flame. A miss does neither, and the flame keeps burning either way.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.