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solarsuit.games · 2025 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 90 % positive of 1,431 reviews, as of Oct 28

Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

24 games that play like Static Dread: The Lighthouse and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: SOMA, Static Dread: The Submarine and Still Wakes the Deep.

Player tags

  • Psychological
  • Indie
  • Horror
  • Lovecraftian
  • Choices Matter
  • Singleplayer
  • Psychological Horror
  • Story Rich
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Plays and looks like Static Dread: The Lighthouse

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Static Dread: The Lighthouse

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Darkwood93 % positive of 22,514Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  2. MOLE97 % positive of 3,914
  3. Mouthwashing95 % positive of 34,750Shared: Psychological · Horror · Psychological Horror
  4. Don't Sleep With The Fishes95 % positive of 860Shared: Horror · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
  5. Those Who Remain68 % positive of 612Shared: Psychological · Horror · Choices Matter
  6. SUNLESS SEA82 % positive of 7,640Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Story Rich
  7. Amnesia: The Dark Descent95 % positive of 20,528Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  8. Reveal The Deep82 % positive of 1,447Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Psychological Horror
  9. Port of Call87 % positive of 1,283Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · First-Person
  10. Call of Cthulhu®77 % positive of 11,040Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Choices Matter
  11. lure89 % positive of 476Shared: Psychological · Horror · Psychological Horror
  12. Stars Die88 % positive of 150Shared: Horror · Lovecraftian · Choices Matter

By look

Looks like Static Dread: The Lighthouse

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Krypta FM94 % positive of 2,087
  2. Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege80 % positive of 12,586
  3. Retail Hell94 % positive of 593
  4. Creepy Shift: House For Sale92 % positive of 300
  5. I'm on Observation Duty 895 % positive of 247
  6. Tales of Fear - Episode Zero95 % positive of 617
  7. Internet Cafe Simulator 273 % positive of 12,356
  8. Sunken Engine78 % positive of 879
  9. Pomberito93 % positive of 431
  10. Among Ashes94 % positive of 434
  11. A Chair in a Room : Greenwater83 % positive of 597
  12. Radiolight89 % positive of 439

At a glance

What games like Static Dread: The Lighthouse have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Static Dread: The Lighthouse: Horror (23 of 24), Lovecraftian (15) and Psychological Horror (14).
  • They came out between 2010 and 2026, 4 of them after Static Dread: The Lighthouse (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: MOLE (97 % positive of 3,914).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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