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Lighthouse horror games

In these games a lighthouse is where the horror waits: you keep its lamp lit through the night, climb it in search of a missing keeper, or find it standing over a fogbound shore. Cut off by the sea, with one beam of light against the dark water, you listen for what comes in with the tide and wonder what the last keeper saw.

The top 22 of 22 lighthouse horror games, ranked by player and critic scores

The 22 best, 2026

  1. Deep Sleep Trilogy key art: a skeleton lies on a rotting bed in a ruined, moss-covered room under a night sky, in grainy pixel art EscapeDeep Sleep TrilogyIn the first game a phone call tells you to look for a lighthouse in the dream. 97% on Steam (897 reviews)about 1 hPaidPC
  2. Gloomwood key art: a cloaked figure in a top hat, seen from behind, walks a foggy Victorian street toward a glowing archway with a red lantern and a blade SurvivalGloomwoodA stranger tells you to meet him at the lighthouse, whose sweeping beam can strip away your shadow on the pier 95% on Steam (8,511 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  3. Trash Horror Collection key art: a sketchy skull holding a camera at the edge of a dark banner with a faint grid floor Multiple endingsTrash Horror CollectionIn Endless Days, Dylan takes a six-month job keeping a lighthouse on an isolated island whose last keeper vanished. 95% on Steam (490 reviews)about 5 hPaidPC
  4. Lies Beneath key art: the title in orange letters beside a hooded figure holding an axe in a dark room SurvivalLies BeneathOne screenshot shows a stone lighthouse in fog above bodies hanging from scaffolds. 92% on the Meta Quest store (1,817 ratings)about 5 hPaidVR, PC
  5. DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain key art: a flooded city under a blood-red sky and a lighthouse, divers drifting among sunken towers toward spiked sea monsters SurvivalDIVE or DIE - Children of RainThe survivors' pier camp has a lighthouse you man to send people on expeditions for items and survivors. 92% on Steam (1,471 reviews)about 9 hPaidPC
  6. Without a Dawn key art: a dim sun setting over dark water, drawn in tiny brown and orange text characters PsychologicalWithout a DawnA lighthouse at dawn is a recurring motif, drawn in text characters above hills and sea 92% on Steam (947 reviews)about 45 minPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  7. Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. key art: the lit porch of a clapboard house with a red door and green shutters at night, dark woods and stars around it MysteryConrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.Adventure Game Hotspot lists a lighthouse among the five haunted locations 92% on Steam (992 reviews)50 h or morePaidPC
  8. CINERIS SOMNIA key art: a black-haired girl in a blue lace-trimmed dress with an ornate parasol looks back on a foggy, empty street of old buildings and lamp posts PsychologicalCINERIS SOMNIASearching the beach for her family, the girl comes to a lighthouse where the tall man in black lives. 91% on Steam (1,212 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  9. WORLD OF HORROR key art: a lighthouse shining under a spiral sky above a Japanese seaside town, in 1-bit pixel art Multiple endingsWORLD OF HORROREach run is five mysteries, one for each key to a locked lighthouse at the edge of town. 90% on Steam (9,883 reviews)about 1.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Switch
  10. Static Dread: The Lighthouse key art: a lighthouse at night behind a tentacled creature with glowing green eyes, under the game's logo PsychologicalStatic Dread: The LighthouseYou are the lone keeper of an old lighthouse reactivated after a global cataclysm. 90% on Steam (1,557 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox
  11. The Keeper key art: a dark figure on the gallery of a lighthouse at night under a moonlit cloudy sky, with the title below and a Comp-3 Interactive strip at the side EscapeThe KeeperYou land on a lonely island whose only building is a red-and-white lighthouse, and you have to find your way off it. 90% on itch.io (394 ratings)about 30 minPay what you wantPC, Mac, Linux
  12. No one lives under the lighthouse key art: a stone lighthouse under a dark stormy sky and a pale moon, with a seagull flying past PsychologicalNo one lives under the lighthouse Director's cutYou take over an old lighthouse after its keeper goes missing and must light its lamp punctually at every sunset. 87% on Steam (2,501 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, Mac, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  13. The Lightkeeper key art: a grim moustached keeper in a peaked cap with an anchor badge on the left, a lit lighthouse on a foggy hill on the right PsychologicalThe LightkeeperYou keep a lighthouse alone, lighting and putting out the beacon and keeping up its oil. 81% on Steam (1,164 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC
  14. Sunken Engine key art: giant tentacles wrap a glowing, wrecked steamboat at night, with a lighthouse and a lit hut in the fog across green water Night shiftSunken EngineA store screenshot shows the island's stone lighthouse ringed by floating red eyes. 81% on Steam (940 reviews)PaidPC
  15. DREDGE key art: a small fishing boat with two glowing lamps on a rough green sea beside a red and white lighthouse under a brown stormy sky, with tentacles and a spiny fish under the water PsychologicalDREDGEA red and white lighthouse stands on a cliff above the sea, shown in the key art and a screenshot. 96% on Steamabout 9.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, iPhone, Android
  16. Stygian: Outer Gods art: a snowy village of wooden houses beneath a glowing green vortex with dark tentacles, a spired mansion on the hill beyond SurvivalStygian: Outer GodsOne area is a lighthouse on the coast, kept by a strange Keeper. 81% on Steam (696 reviews)about 6 hPaidPC
  17. REANIMAL key art: two children row a small lit boat across dark floodwater past wrecked ships and telephone poles, under a giant sheep-headed creature looming out of the stormy sky PsychologicalREANIMALA lighthouse is one of the places the two children pass through on the island. 75% on Steam (26,213 reviews)about 4 hPaidPC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  18. Stay Away From the Lighthouse cover drawn as a PS1 game case: grey tentacles curl round a red and white lighthouse under the title Night shiftSTAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHTHOUSEYou are a new lighthouse keeper on a night when every lighthouse on the coast, yours included, has gone dark 86% on itch.io (79 ratings)about 15 minFreeBrowser
  19. LIGHTHOUSE key art: a black and teal striped lighthouse on rocks under a flat red sky, a tiny silhouetted figure at the edge of a black sea PsychologicalLIGHTHOUSEYou arrive at a striped lighthouse on a rock in a black sea and stay on with its keeper. 96% on itch.io (25 ratings)about 10 minFreeBrowser
  20. Layers of Fear key art: a torn blood-red canvas, with an eye and part of a painted face showing through the rip and an empty picture frame behind PsychologicalLayers of FearNew framing chapters follow a writer staying in an abandoned lighthouse, tying the stories together. 79% on Steamabout 8.5 hPaidPC, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
  21. The Shore key art: a man's silhouette underwater among rocks, kelp and a sunken boat, with tentacled creatures above him ShortThe ShoreThe first hour is spent exploring around an abandoned lighthouse on the coast 73% on Steam (2,008 reviews)about 2 hPaidPC, PlayStation
  22. Dark Fall 2: Lights Out key art: a stone lighthouse on a rock in a teal storm, a big wave breaking at its base under dark clouds PsychologicalDark Fall 2: Lights OutSet in and around Fetch Rock Lighthouse, whose light goes dark the night its three keepers vanish. 72% on GOG (263 ratings)about 4.5 hPaidPC

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