About the Game
Lured in by shared nightmares, madmen travel to a remote island crowned by a silent Tower. No one remembers the journey.
The Lantern of the Laughless Saint is an open world RPG built around exploration and connection. You learn the land by walking it, following rumors, reading scraps of burned history, and meeting lost souls who wandered to the ends of the Earth, following the same feverish dream of a light buried beneath the Tower.
Somewhere in the depths is a theater with an empty stage, waiting for an audience. As you repair or ruin the lives of the island's inhabitants, the phantoms they leave behind take their seats in the audience. The more seats you fill, the more the island listens, and the greater the applause for your final act.
And if you don’t want to descend alone, you don’t have to. The entire game is fully playable in co-op: explore the island together, delve into the depths for treasures, and make the choices that will decide the fate of everyone on the island, and beyond...
What makes it different
A wild, ancient island to explore
Follow leads, find shortcuts into the Tower, stumble into side stories, and piece together what is real and what is mere delusion.Open Ended
Most quests have multiple resolutions. Mercy, violence, compromise, deceit.A large cast of bizarre characters
Many strange folk find their home on the island. A giant toad learning to read. An ancient skeleton who just wants to swim. A musician from a faraway land hunts for something precious. Everyone has a theory for why you’re here. None of them agree.The Amphitheater
Your choices change the world. Treat others with kindness and generosity, and a trusted friend will take their seat in your audience. Fail or abuse them, and something darker takes their place. The House fills either way.
Visceral Combat with multiple weapon types
Punchy combat against strange horrorsFull co-op
Play the whole game together. Explore the world, share the spoils, and decide who you will become, because the consequences belong to all of you.
The Tower does not call the whole. It calls the broken, the wanting.
Fill the seats. Start the performance. Find out what is buried at the bottom of the well.
Screenshots
7 imagesVersion Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
-Hit markers (beta version for single/networked multiplayer, beta version for splitscreen)
-Teleport to teammates (click on their map marker)
-Added more figurine statues to collect
-Alchemy shows # remaining on active ingredients
Changes
-Enemy HP values rebalanced
-1H weapons rebalanced (pending another future balance change - stay tuned)
-Unlock spell now craftable
-Some new items placed around world
Fixes
-Many floating items and holes fixed
-Quest fixes for single/multiplayer
-Many Skinning issues for beards/hair fixed
-VFX for many spells/items turned down
-NPC persistence
-NPC appearances fixed / made consistent
-A certain quest NPC is no longer mercy killed by vicious frogs
-Some pickable ingredients are now pickable
-Water volumes are refactored
-Collision on bonfires smaller
-Many voicelines recut
-VRAM Leak that causes ugly textures fixed
-Performance improvements
Fixed texture issues on some GPUs
Fixed iGPU being selected improperly on some laptops
Brandbearer fire VFX toned down (there's still more VFX we're working to tune down)
NPCs should no longer get stuck on their beds after they sleep
Also shouldn't self immolate
Spongestone was missing and was placed
Level design cleanup and fixing
Addressing a variety of issues reported
Including shopkeeper lag when opening
Improved multiplayer saving
Quest fixes
Rebalanced bread
Chialani no longer self immolates by accident
Attempt at fixing certain laptops stuck using IGPUs instead of dedicated GPU, further probing coming to confirm if this is resolved.
Current Release
Build 24812169
Uploaded Aug 19, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
The_Holy_Fool.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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