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Games like The Lightkeeper

2025PC, Steam 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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In short: Games like The Lightkeeper

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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The Town of Light

94 %Match

2016USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified79 % positive18.99 €

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.

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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.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Dread and tension

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Devotion

Dread and tension

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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.