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The Lighthouse

Shadow Knights Studio · 2019-10-31

Steam

AdventureIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Oct 31, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Xbox One), TBD (PlayStation 4)

The Lighthouse is a uniquely crafted thriller with glimpses into psychotic, alternate dimensions. Private Investigator James Irvine finds himself lured into a haunting, neo-noir world in search of a missing young woman, named Lily Beaumont.

The Lighthouse is an Adventure, Indie and Early Access game released in 2019, priced at $24.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mostly Positive sentiment (71% of 48 reviews).

0
playing now
71%
positive of 48 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$24.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

The Lighthouse takes place on February 19, 1964. You play as James Irvine, a former detective turned private investigator in the state of Maine. Irvine is a man who solves the problems that the city doesn't have the inclination to follow-up on, little less solve. Many of the lucrative cases that come to his office are from locals with various requests, from spouses looking to expose infidelity in their relationships to business owners looking to gather enough evidence to incriminate their partners. February 19, 1964 is an important anniversary for Pt. Irvine as it’s the day he lost his first (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 55% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.89 at Game Jolt (2020-11-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620192026Week of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$24.99$0.892019-10-312021-07-082019-10-31 — best price $22.492019-11-07 — best price $24.992019-12-19 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $24.992020-03-30 — best price $9.992020-04-06 — best price $24.992020-06-25 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $24.992020-11-15 — best price $0.992020-11-16 — best price $0.892020-11-23 — best price $1.002020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-01-05 — best price $24.992021-02-11 — best price $7.492021-02-15 — best price $24.992021-06-24 — best price $9.992021-07-08 — best price $24.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
93%
earned "The Lighthouse Journey"
2.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

Player tags

NoirHorrorPuzzleMysteryThrillerDetectiveEmotionalRealisticStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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