Quantum LanternStudios

Small worlds, always growing.

Slide one: Keep Rising, a medieval defender-incremental for PC and Steam. In development.

Meet Keep Rising
Keep Rising key art — a moonlit stone castle firing cannons and frost magic at a horde of orcs, wolves and a stone golem
Keep Rising

Keep Rising

Every ending, a stronger beginning.

Keep Rising is a medieval defender-incremental for PC and Steam, single-player, currently in development.

A medieval defender-incremental. Actively command towers, troops, heroes and spells to hold a castle under endless siege — and when the walls finally give, prestige. Your fortress persists between runs, growing from a wooden keep into a god-tier citadel: every siege you lose makes the next one winnable, and the numbers never stop climbing.

Genre
Defender-incremental
Platforms
PC · Steam
Players
Solo
Status
In development

The game that named the studio’s direction. It started as a jam prototype about a very stubborn gate — then the prestige loop clicked, and it refused to stay small.

Formerly announced as Castle Defender.

Keep Rising key art, detail: a stone golem, an armoured orc and wolves charging the castle barricades by moonlight
Keep Rising
Botanitech key art — a terraced greenhouse of brass pipes, glass domes and glowing blue flowers above a waterfall valley
Botanitech

Botanitech

Quiet on the surface. Relentless underneath.

Botanitech is a bio-engineering garden incremental for PC and Steam Deck, playable solo or in two-player co-op, in development for 2026.

A garden that compounds. Aboard a drifting orbital arboretum you splice circuitry into seedlings, and every specimen you get working feeds the next: more light, more power, more garden. What starts as one glowing sprout slowly snowballs into a whole humming ecosystem — quiet on the surface, relentless underneath.

Genre
Garden incremental
Platforms
PC · Steam Deck
Players
Solo or 2-player co-op
Status
In development · 2026

And for the hours after the siege: the quieter incremental on the bench. Same love of growth curves, traded from cannons to chlorophyll.

Quantum Lantern Studios lantern logo

One person behind the lantern.

I am the whole studio — design, code, art direction and the late-night bug hunts. Quantum Lantern is a one-person operation by choice: it keeps the scope honest and lets every system get the attention it deserves.

Florian FülbertFounder, designer and sole developer

  • Progress you can keep

    Every session should end with something permanently gained — a taller keep, a brighter bloom, a number that will never be that small again.

  • Warm loops

    Incremental does not have to mean cold spreadsheets. The math wears a world: lantern-light around the numbers, never instead of them.

  • Slow craft

    I would rather ship one small world that truly compounds than ten that merely flicker.

Questions, answered

What is Quantum Lantern Studios?

Quantum Lantern Studios is a one-person independent game studio founded by Florian Fülbert, making warm, curious incremental games — small worlds where the numbers keep growing. The studio is currently developing two titles: Keep Rising and Botanitech.

What is Keep Rising?

Keep Rising is a medieval defender-incremental for PC and Steam, currently in development. You actively command towers, troops, heroes and spells to hold a castle under endless siege, and prestige when the walls finally give — your fortress persists and grows between runs. It was previously announced under the working title Castle Defender.

What is Botanitech?

Botanitech is a bio-engineering garden incremental set aboard a drifting orbital arboretum, in development for 2026. You splice circuitry into seedlings and every working specimen feeds the next, compounding one glowing sprout into a whole humming ecosystem.

What platforms will Botanitech release on?

Botanitech is planned for PC and Steam Deck. It can be played solo or in two-player co-op.

Who makes Quantum Lantern Studios games?

Every Quantum Lantern game is made by Florian Fülbert, the studio’s founder and sole developer, who handles design, code and art direction. You can reach the studio at [email protected].

When will Quantum Lantern games be released?

Botanitech is in active development targeting 2026. Keep Rising is also in development and does not have a release window yet. Release dates will be announced on this site.

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