Lantern Line

One line. One town. Yours to look after. Lantern Line is a quiet game about running a small underground railway beneath the town of Lanterndon. You stock the coffee stall, drive the train yourself, carry people to work, and put the takings into the next station along the line. It keeps running when you close it. Restocks finish, builds finish, the stalls keep selling, and the takings are waiting when you come back. WHAT YOU DO • Restock the kiosks and watch the money come in • Drive the train by hand: hold an arrow, let go at the platform, and stop dead centre for a bigger tip • Build the next station, then the one after that, for as long as you care to keep going • Put right what goes wrong — rats, a leak, a broken screen, leaves on the line, a snail colony • Collect sixty regular passengers, each with a name, a journey and something to say • Smarten the place up, from wood to concrete to metal to marble THE SKY OUTSIDE The station keeps your own daylight. It turns at sunrise and sunset where you are, the lanterns come on after dark, and heavy rain or thunder brings them on early. Switch it off and the game never touches the network at all. NO NONSENSE • No adverts, ever • No account and no sign-in • Plays entirely offline, and nothing about you is collected • Every station, kiosk, train and passenger can be reached without spending a penny Pixel art, a small synthesised score, and the rumble of a train pulling in.