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Games like Static Dread: The Lighthouse

If Static Dread: The Lighthouse is your kind of game, the closest matches are No, I'm not a Human, ABIDE and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and eerie. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Static Dread: The Lighthouse: 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!

2025ActionIndieAdventureSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedMetacritic 75Windows · macOSby solarsuit.games
Static Dread: The Lighthouse — Steam game cover
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Branching story with 6 different endingsCharming cast of weird visitors and lovecraftian mysteriesCreeping sanity draining darkness that haunts the lighthouseAtmosphericContemplativeEerie

Players who liked Static Dread: The Lighthouse also play

Steam players who put hours into Static Dread: The Lighthouse also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. No, I'm not a Human

    WHY THIS

    Shares replayability, branching narrative and atmospheric with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Top pick for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

    2025IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ABIDE

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    ABIDE is a psychological first person horror game using prosthetic gore effects, stop motion and dolls scanned into 3D models. A peaceful retreat where people go to get better. A place for people to air their demons.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Third-strongest match for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!

    2017IndieAdventureSimulation8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dreamless

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    In a remote provincial town, teenagers mysteriously disappear every 25 years. You're a high school student about to turn 18... But what if you become the next victim?

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Below, Rusted Gods

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  6. Mother Zina

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    You’re a journalist who came to Russia for a report. After renting an apartment from Zinaida Petrovna, you quickly realize she’s hiding something - and this place isn’t meant for random tenants. To get out, you’ll have to dig into her past - and keep your sanity.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  7. VIDeoPHOBIA

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving and atmospheric with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Ranked #7 for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    You are in a room without windows or doors. The TV dimly illuminates the room. What is this, a box? How to open it? After solving the riddle, you find the TV remote control. Click... a door appeared. You step into the darkness and hear laughter... turn around and find out what's behind the screen.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Do No Harm

    WHY THIS

    Shares sanity management, time pressure and atmospheric with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Ranked #8 for Static Dread: The Lighthouse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

    2025Simulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Static Dread: The Lighthouse

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Papers, Please

    WHY THIS

    Shares time pressure, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

    2013IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. No, I'm not a Human

    WHY THIS

    Shares replayability, branching narrative and atmospheric with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    WARNING. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all Visitors. An anxiety horror about paranoia in the End of Times.

    2025IndieSimulation14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Office Void

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    You’re stuck on the night shift. The code refuses to compile, the deadline is on fire, and your mind is no longer yours. To keep from passing out and blowing the entire shift, you have to drink coffee. Lots of it.

    2026ActionIndieAdventure3.00 USDSteam ↗
  4. DREDGE

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

    2023AdventureRPG10.79 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Stanley Parable

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.

    2013IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Resident Evil 4

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

    2023ActionAdventure39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Mouthwashing

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental storytelling, branching narrative and atmospheric with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    The five crew members of the Tulpar are stranded in the empty reaches of space, shrouded in perpetual sunset. God is not watching.

    2024IndieAdventure12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. That's not my Neighbor

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings, puzzle solving, indie and a mysterious mood with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Reviewers of Static Dread: The Lighthouse cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    It's 1955, and for unknown reasons, doppelgangers are more common than usual. Therefore, the Department of Doppelganger Detection (D.D.D.) has taken action. You are the doorman of an apartment complex, and you must decide whether to let in those who claim to be your neighbors.

    2025IndieAdventureSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Static Dread: The Lighthouse at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Action with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Action with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Static Dread: The Lighthouse on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

    A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Static Dread: The Lighthouse

Is Static Dread: The Lighthouse verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Static Dread: The Lighthouse is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Static Dread: The Lighthouse cost?
Static Dread: The Lighthouse is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Static Dread: The Lighthouse?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Static Dread: The Lighthouse are No, I'm not a Human, ABIDE, The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker.
Who developed Static Dread: The Lighthouse?
Static Dread: The Lighthouse was developed by solarsuit.games and published by Polden Publishing.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Static Dread: The Lighthouse.

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