Submachine 2: The Lighthouse

Loot Level ChillChris White

8/10

Static Dread: The Lighthouse tells an interesting story that keeps you busy directing the flow of its eldritch horrors and the day-to-day running of its lighthouse.

GamingTrendCorvo Rohwer

70/100

For 15 nights you'll need to hold back the darkness or embrace it as the sole lifeline of those on the sea. Even if the scares aren't that high, Static Dread still manages to tell the eldritch story it wants to in a reasonably fun way.

WellPlayedAdam Ryan

5.5/10

Static Dread: The Lighthouse employs a brilliantly unsettling art style and threatens to go to interesting places before disappointingly settling into monotony.

MonsterVineTom Ravencroft

If walking simulator is a genre, Static Dread: The Lighthouse is a hearing about things simulator. In the wake of a worldwide cataclysm that disabled GPS and other forms of fancy navigation, you have left your wife and daughter to man a decrepit old lighthouse and ensure ships get to port safely. Your main means of communication with the world is by radio, which provides your daily instructions…but as you talk to the various ships, townsfolk, your boss, an ominous voice that might be Cthulh...

Checkpoint GamingJarrod Harrison

4/10

Static Dread: The Lighthouse, developed by Solarsuit Games and published by Polden Publishing, is an attempt at blending the high-stakes bureaucracy and ethical dilemmas of Papers, Please, with the suspense and dread of Lovecraftian horror. Where, instead of checking visa documentation at the border of a totalitarian nation, you are checking documents to make sure ships reach the right harbour.