Lanterns: The Harvest Festival

Board

Ratings

Age

4+

Board

Languages

English

Latest Version 2.3.1

Fri Oct 03 2025

Fix for shader issues on the playmat.

Based on the acclaimed board game, Lanterns: The Harvest Festival challenges players to decorate the palace lake with floating lanterns. Players take turns placing lake tiles, earning lantern cards based on the colors presented to each side. Collect sets of cards to earn Honor points and secure victory in this beautiful, strategic, and relaxing tile-placement game.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

85/100

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival is a beautifully executed digital adaptation of the popular tabletop game. Dire Wolf Digital has done an outstanding job of translating the physical tile-placement mechanics into a smooth, intuitive mobile experience. The tranquil atmosphere, highlighted by gorgeous ambient music and the satisfying visual of lanterns floating on the water, makes it incredibly relaxing to play after a long day.

Beneath its serene presentation lies a deeply engaging strategic puzzle. Every tile you place not only affects your own hand but also gives resources to your opponents, demanding careful planning and foresight. The AI opponents offer a solid challenge across different difficulty levels, and the inclusion of pass-and-play and online multiplayer ensures you always have someone to compete against. It's a must-have for board game enthusiasts and puzzle lovers alike.

Dinsun reviewed on: Wed Feb 25 2026

Features

Award-winning board game mechanics

Asynchronous online multiplayer

Challenging AI opponents

Zen-like atmosphere and music

Tips & Walkthrough

Placing Tiles

Select a tile from your hand and place it on the board. The color facing you dictates the lantern card you receive, but be careful—the colors facing your opponents give them cards too.

Making Dedications

Trade in specific sets of lantern cards (like four of a kind, or one of each color) to make dedications and earn the Honor points needed to win the game.

Gameplays

Solo and Multiplayer

Test your skills against AI opponents of varying difficulties, or challenge friends locally via pass-and-play or online.

Screenshot

Q&A

Yes, it features asynchronous online matchmaking to play against friends or players worldwide.

Ratings & Reviews

Fun game

Thu Apr 26 2018 *Shazam666*

I’ve only played a few solo games on a IPad Mini 4with no issues. I am giving it a 5* review, because it is fun, bright, and graphics wise, is awesome. Best way I can describe the play of the game is, it’s similar to dominos, but more involved. I do like seeing the Koi swim around while playing, and the music is nice too, not real loud or horrible sounding to turn it off. The music is similar to some mahjong games I’ve played.

Update has killed friend multiplayer

Thu May 13 2021 Berubemeister

I do like this app a lot as for the 4- Stars but the latest update has really hampered multiplayer game play over time. While we do play often in a normal 1-HR game it works fine but sometimes, we just want to play a free flow game when we have time. We’ve noticed with the update it just scrubs the game. We log in with the game gone... just frustrating when you had played the way for so long. A timer visible would at least give us some visual. Hope the multiplayer is fixed in the next update.

All The Signs of a Classic

Sat Mar 05 2022 Thomas the Convert

This is a good example of how an app can breathe new life into a great card game. The bookkeeping is all done for you, all the color and beauty remains. The two player game is the most strategic. It is really just an abstract card game, simple rules and a bit of a take that attitude.

This version has some annoyances

Sun Dec 24 2017 AlphaZygma

I Ike this game and the app version is great, I can play the base game and the expansion. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is that the upgrades on log-in have issues and it seems to be stuck when I was actually logged in and if I retry then I get an error. So right now I have tried try once, and the close the screen and go online again and it works. Hope they get an update soon.

App frozen for weeks - used to be fun.

Mon Dec 18 2017 Kt on the rocks

7/17 I used to really really really love this app! But it has been stuck for the past several weeks and none of my attempts to fix it or reach out to the developer have been successful. So, now this app is useless, which is really annoying since it's one of the few apps I actually paid money for. 12/17 STILL frozen after reporting this issue several times. Very disappointed that no effort is being made to resolve this issue, especially for a paid app!

Fun but Flawed AI Limits Replay

Mon Dec 10 2018 falldowngoboom

It is a fun game, but it is infuriating to play. The main issue occurs when playing vs multiple AI opponents. Be aware that they will freely help each other get points. Ai2 needs a blue?100% chance that one of the other AI players will hand it over. Ai3 needs black to win over You and Ai1? Ai1 will happily give a black piece to its opponent. So be warned. This game is fun, but gets old fast as you watch the other players scheme out ways to ensure that you lose.

Unplayable on iPhone 12; final round rules wrong

Wed Jul 07 2021 Afitnerd

Update: still unplayable on iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro after update. On both iPhone 12 pro max and iPhone 12 pro, the screen is all blown up and you can’t scroll around. Support responded once a month ago and then radio silence. Plays well on iPad. But, final round is broken as many others have reported. Very disappointing for a $5 app.

Last turn broken

Mon Nov 15 2021 JennCali 2.0

When you’ve set yourself up perfectly to make the game winning dedication on the last turn and the current version of the game is broken so you never get that last turn, it takes all the joy out. Fix the last turn already! Clearly it has been broken for 6+ months. It isn’t too much to ask to expect that the digital version follows the rules of the game.