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2025PCSteam Deck playable81 % positive7.79 €

A psychological horror adventure set in the 1920s, where you tend a lighthouse alone on a remote island as reality and delusion blur. Oppressive atmosphere and mounting dread drive the experience.

  • Dread and tension
  • Historical setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
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The closest matches for The Lightkeeper are Amnesia: The Dark Descent, The Town of Light and The Excavation of Hob's Barrow. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes The Lightkeeper special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent

96 %Match

2010PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable95 % positive19.50 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Historical setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

Defenseless in a gloomy Prussian castle, you hide from monsters, ration lamp oil and fight to keep your sanity instead of fighting back. A genre-defining horror classic built on physics-based puzzles and relentless dread.

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The Town of Light

Dread and tension

A harrowing first-person walking-style adventure set in the faithfully recreated Volterra psychiatric hospital in Italy. As Renée you piece together her troubled past and the grim reality of institutional psychiatry, with no combat and a heavy, oppressive atmosphere.

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

Dread and tension

A linear, narrative-heavy first-person horror journey through Victorian London, where an industrialist descends into a monstrous machine searching for his missing children. It trims the survival mechanics of its predecessor in favor of a disturbing parable about greed and industry, carried by a superb score.

Martha Is Dead

Dread and tension

A dark first-person psychological thriller set in 1944 Italy, where you investigate your twin sister Martha's death while reality, folklore and wartime trauma blur together. Story and disturbing atmosphere take center stage, with photography and light puzzle elements.

The Last Door

Dread and tension

A pixel-art point-and-click horror adventure set in Victorian England, built on thick atmosphere, eerie sound design and a dark mystery following Jeremiah Devitt. Classic adventure puzzles drive an episodic tale of buried secrets and creeping dread.

Devotion

Dread and tension

A first-person atmospheric horror game set in 1980s Taiwan, where you explore a family's apartment as it slides into a religion-tinged nightmare. Puzzles and claustrophobic spaces gradually uncover a tragic story.

Fears to Fathom: Carson House

Strong, story-driven narrative

A short first-person horror game where you play house-sitter Noah spending a weekend in an eerie mansion as the threat slowly escalates. Tension comes from atmosphere, mundane tasks turning sinister, and sudden scares.

The Last Door: Season 2

Strong, story-driven narrative

A dark pixel-art horror mystery set in Victorian England, where you play Dr. Wakefield unraveling a secret society. Dense atmosphere, point-and-click puzzles and unsettling sound design drive its disturbing story.

Cucina Stellata

Dread and tension

An atmospheric horror adventure set in 19th-century Italy, where you play a solitary gourmet writer drawn into an unsettling night. It relies on creeping tension and disturbing twists rather than jump scares or chases.

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