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Games like Static Dread: The Lighthouse

2025PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified11.16 €

As a lighthouse keeper, you guide ships into harbor by radio while something impossible lurks in the dark. Lovecraftian dread meets Papers, Please-style task management under pressure.

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Strong, story-driven narrative

The closest matches for Static Dread: The Lighthouse are That's Not My Neighbor, The Mortuary Assistant and Welcome to the Game II. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Static Dread: The Lighthouse special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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That's Not My Neighbor

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2024PCSteam Deck playable85 % positive2.99 €

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Puzzles and brain teasers

You work as a doorman at an apartment building and must use clues and rules to decide who is a real neighbor and who is a disguised impostor. Rising pressure and an eerie mood make every mistake dangerous.

Welcome to the Game II

Dread and tension

A horror puzzle game where you play a reporter delving into the deep web and a trap-filled building to help a woman in danger. Puzzles, surveillance and survival pressure create a tense, unsettling experience.

The Convenience Store

Strong, story-driven narrative

A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.

Madison

Dread and tension

A first-person psychological horror game where an instant camera bridges the human world and the beyond. You develop photos yourself to solve disturbing puzzles while surviving a deeply unsettling atmosphere.

Visage

Strong, story-driven narrative

A slow-burning first-person psychological horror game set in a shifting haunted house full of tragic stories. It relies on sustained dread, puzzles and sanity management rather than combat.

Dead Signal

Dread and tension

You work a night shift watching camera feeds, reporting anomalies and delivering shady packages. It blends spot-the-difference tasks and time pressure with creeping horror where almost nowhere feels safe.

The Cabin Factory

Dread and tension

You work as an inspector at a factory that produces cabins, judging whether each one is haunted. The game is about careful observation, spotting anomalies and knowing when to run.

Dollmare

Dread and tension

You take a suspicious job at a doll factory, where you inspect dolls for defects and strange anomalies. The tension comes from following unsettling protocols while trying to keep your job and stay alive.

Last Report

Strong, story-driven narrative

As a night-shift park ranger you watch over camera feeds in a national park and slowly uncover a creepy secret. A pixel-art point-and-click horror built on surveillance tension.

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