RedLantern | 赤提灯
90s-style Japanese survival horror about a cursed deep-web marketplace. RedLantern posts manifest in your room. Hack targets, trace shipments, upgrade your rig, and survive home invaders as you file reports to your boss.
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Set in 90s Japan, deep in a snowbound village, you work for RedLantern, the country’s largest illegal deep-web marketplace. Guns, drugs, disappearances, forbidden tech, everything moves through its encrypted threads. But the RedLantern has more than crime, a curse. Some posts don’t stay on the screen, and two relentless hunters will do anything to keep you from finishing your shift.
Your boss demands results. Trace illegal shipments. Track down users. File reports. Survive until 6:00 AM (one hour in real time). The game is run-based, with permadeath and no checkpoints. Every failure sends you back to the start of the shift. Every run pushes you deeper into the network’s secrets.
RedLantern is vast:
400+ immersive marketplace listings with images
Hundreds of user profiles, each with a distinct tone and history
Your very first playthrough begins with a 10–15 minute prologue, setting the stage for the nightmare ahead. And for those who want more, Hardcore Mode adds another handler to report to, plus 50+ additional unique RedLantern users (not found in the normal difficulty and exclusively unique to hardcore) with new posts.
Coins are your lifeline. Earn them by completing reports, digging into users, or taking your chances gambling on RedLantern itself. Spend them on illicit software or arrange risky alley pickups for hardware. Every upgrade carries a price and a risk.
Lock the windows. Kill the lights before you hide. Check the camera. Not every post you read is just a story.
