Every descent teaches you something the surface never could. This is the rare metroidvania where the dark itself is the antagonist — and the co-star.
Hands-on preview · March 2026
Tin Lantern Games presents · a lantern-lit metroidvania
1P 00
CREDIT 02 · FREE PLAY
HOLLOWDEEP
Descend · Relight · Survive
Insert coin to descend
Hi-ScoreDemo · Top 3
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A dead mining colony swallowed the world above. Take up the last lit lantern and climb down — across the Beacon Span, through fifteen hand-built biomes, past the things that never wanted the light back.
Press Start
© 2026 Tin Lantern Games · Cabinet No. 07
Insert coin
Free demo out now — your save carries over at launch
Tin Lantern Co. · Free play
IGN 9 / 10
PC Gamer 88
Best Indie — PixelFest 2025
Editors' Choice — Eurogamer
“A lantern-lit masterpiece” — RPS
PAX Award Nominee
Steam Next Fest — Most Played Demo
Press
The critics speak
Mash A to advance. They kept talking anyway.
The oil economy is quietly brilliant. I rationed light like water in a desert, and every refill shrine felt like a cathedral.
Demo review · April 2026
The dark has never felt this alive. Tin Lantern have built a cave that watches you back — and then feels bad about it.
Feature · May 2026
Systems
Four rules of the deep
Everything below the surface answers to your lantern.
Oil is life
Your lantern is health, map and weapon in one. Burn bright to see the strike coming — or ration the oil and feel your way through the black.
A cave that remembers
Fifteen hand-built biomes wrapped around a shifting core. Shortcuts you carve stay carved. Death moves the deep — never your progress.
The Gloam bestiary
Forty-eight creatures, each with a tell. Learn the flicker before the lunge. Nine bosses that break the rule you just mastered.
Light the beacons
Relight seven ancient beacons to wake the elevator and climb toward the surface. Every beacon rewrites the caverns above it.
Biomes
Straight off the cartridge
Captured in-engine at native resolution — no mock-ups.
Mossglow HollowStage 2-1
Emberworks ForgeStage 4-2
The Drowned NaveStage 6-1
Pre-order
Pick your cartridge
Launches Q4 2026. Every edition includes the full descent.
FILE 01NEW GAME
Standard
Digital
$24.99
- Full base game (PC / console)
- Soundtrack sampler — 6 tracks
- Digital wallpaper pack
- 120-page digital artbook
- Collector's physical box
Most wishlisted
FILE 02BEST VALUE
Deluxe
Digital · Save 22%
$34.99
- Everything in Standard
- Full soundtrack — 38 tracks
- 120-page digital artbook
- Two lantern skins + New Game+
- Collector's physical box
FILE 03100% CLEAR
Collector's Vault
Physical + digital
$59.99
- Everything in Deluxe
- Enamel beacon pin set (7)
- Cloth map of the deep
- Numbered, hand-boxed edition
- Vinyl LP — limited to 2,000