Lantern Run field guide

The Lantern Run field guide

Locations, riders, horses and secrets from the night of 18 April 1775, and a few nights that never happened.

Play Lantern Run About the game
Paul Revere rides a brown horse straight toward the camera, his arm raised, with the Old North Church steeple and the painted houses of Boston behind him and two riders on the road.
The North End, 10 pm. Every frame of the game runs through an oil-paint filter over a backdrop painted on the easel.

Welcome to the colony

This is the field guide to Revere's Ride: Lantern Run, the GameLab sequel to the 8-bit RevereBike. It works like the encyclopedia in the back of an old game box. Read it before you ride, or come back when you are stuck.

The history is real, and the guide says so when the game bends it. When a story is a legend, like Sybil Ludington's ride or the British band at Yorktown, the guide says that too.

  • Nineteen painted roads

    Locations

    Every stage, where it is, what happened there, and where its lantern hides.

  • Six riders, a dozen faces

    Riders and people

    The real riders of the Revolution you can play, and the people they met on the road.

  • The stable

    Horses

    Six horses, their stats, their stories, and how bonding with one makes it better.

  • Lanterns, horseshoes, a unicorn

    Secrets

    Thirteen colony lanterns, five golden horseshoes, hidden riders and the last road.

  • How to ride

    Field guide

    Lanes, hops, the Call, the Lantern Burst, crews, rivals, stars and the camera.

Four acts

ActWhenWhat it covers
Act I: The Midnight Ride18 to 19 April 1775The night Paul Revere rode, told road by road, from the church steeple in Boston to the green at Lexington at dawn.
Act II: The Long War1775 to 1781The ride is over. The war has started. Six stages follow the news from Concord to the surrender at Yorktown.
Finale: Declare It4 JulyOne stage. Philadelphia, the bells, and every window lit.
Fever Dreams: After the RideAny night sinceThe bonus roads from the 8-bit original, repainted. None of them happened. All of them are fun.