No one lives under the lighthouse Director's cut

I've begun to stop trusting Steam reviews. They're not really a reliable interpretation of whether a title is good or not, but instead a kind of reflexive "vibe check" about the studio or whether the theme fits with contemporary trends. "No One Lives Under the Lighthouse" is an Eldritch-style Lovecraftian horror with retro pixel graphics made by an indie Ukrainian studio, so it checks every single box for instant internet cred before ever stopping to ask whether the title is an enjoyable work of entertainment. And, despite the glowing positive consensus in Steam reviews, I'm not convinced that it is. I'm not comparing the title to modern retro-graphic works like "Obra Dinn" and "Signalis" but instead I am comparing it to the actual 90's era of media that the authors were trying to emulate. Most people don't remember how much shovelware there was for the original Playstation 1 - huge volumes of unimpressive media like "Bubsy 3D", "Twisted Metal III", "Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn", and "So...

Lighthouse maintenance simulator... I played for like an hour and all I was doing was running errands for keeping the lighthouse running, while something kept ruining it. Yeah, perhaps there's more interesting stuff later on, but it broke me when I had to go back and forth at least 3 times to get some sacks for the counterweight. Sorry I'm not spending my gaming time doing chores, I have real life for that. Too bad, as the atmosphere and the sound design were great (don't know about the dos-era low res 3d as artistic choice, but it's not a deal breaker either). Sorry Marevo, I tried.

Great PSX art direction, terrifying vibes and a really great direction for a short horror game. Only thing missing was willem dafoe.

Fun little horror game, but I personally feel like the director's cut is less fun than the original cut. Still worth the couple hours of playtime.

I made it as far as a waking up on a the beach after going underground and nothing I could find on the island was interact-able. And I wandered around for a good while trying to find anything to do. So either the game failed to give me adequate direction on what to do, the game bugged out, or it was an ending? I honestly have no idea. It's a fine enough game. Good eldritch horror atmosphere. Excellent sound design. But I can't say anything it did was all that great. More walking sim with very uninteresting puzzles. And, at least personally, the style of graphics doesn't do anything for me and after a while starts to give me something approaching a headache. Needless to say, I do not miss this graphical era of gaming. I'll recommend the game because Steam doesn't have a Neutral rating that more aligns with my feelings on it.

it got too religious for me at the end, which isnt a problem for everyone but if it is for you just keep that in mind. and the game seems to not know what it wants to be they were onto smh in the first half but they lost it at the end

Been a while since i had shivers playing a horror game, but this one did it. Great atmosphere.

like a time machine into the HL1 mod glory days

Definitely something that felt inspired, at least in part, from Eggers' film "The Lighthouse". The game is short and sweet, immediately immersing you in a solitary and dreadful atmosphere. I think the most interesting part of the game is the first half of it where you mainly are trying to keep the lighthouse operational while weird, mysterious and sometimes scary things occur. Once things start to be revealed however, I would say it gets ab bit too convoluted for me, and I can;t say I fully understand what was going on, but it was still engaging enough to finish.

Greatly terrifying experience I'd say!