Lanternwing: Space Shooter

Verdict

In-app purchases

About this game

The Long Night has fallen. The stars went out one by one, and the Bloom came crawling through the dark. Only the lanterns still shine, and you fly the last of them.

Lanternwing is a classic vertical space shooter, built for one thumb and made to feel great: hold and drag to fly with your guns blazing, and every swarm you clear lights the sky a little more.

• 45 missions across five hand-built sectors, each with three stars to earn
• Five colossal sector bosses, each with its own phases and bullet patterns
• Seven ships to collect, from the sturdy Wick to the prism-firing Aurora, each with its own gun
• Power capsules mid-flight: grab them to grow from a single cannon to a screen-filling barrage
• Specials like the Nova Bomb, plus systems and modules to upgrade in your Hangar
• Chain kills without getting hit for bigger Lumen rewards
• Deep Night: an endless mode that asks how far you can fly
• Daily Flight: one challenge a day, with a streak to keep
• The Gauntlet: every boss, back to back, against the clock
• Ranks, medals, daily quests and star chests to work toward
• Plays offline

FAIR FROM THE FIRST SHOT
Sectors I and II, Deep Night and the Daily Flight are free to play forever, and every Hangar upgrade is earned by flying. One optional purchase, the Full Flight Licence, opens Sectors III to V and the ending, the Gauntlet, and the Halo and Aurora ships.
No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. Ever.

Light the night, pilot.

What’s new

First flight of Lanternwing on Google Play: 45 missions, five sector bosses, seven ships, Deep Night, the Daily Flight and the Gauntlet.