Static Dread: The Lighthouse News

Hotfix 1.0.1 is live!

Thank you all for the amazing feedback!

Yesterday, we had a blast watching thousands of you stream and play the game. Today, we're rolling out a small update to address some critical issues and add a few quality-of-life improvements.

This update includes:

Fixed an issue where some elements in the Story Progress menu couldn’t be unlocked.
Minor rebalance of paranormal events.
Added Y-axis inversion option.
New HDR Support toggle in the settings menu.
Fixed several typos.

Thanks again for your continued support!

Static Dread: The Lighthouse (PC) Review

Static Dread: The Lighthouse was a small case of mistaken identity for me. In my haste to look it over before reviewing, the screenshots made it seem like more of an interactive novel-style puzzle game with some horror elements. Imagine my surprise when it revealed itself as more of a lighthouse management game—with horror elements—which is something I’ve been dying for someone to make.

There’s such a compelling idea in exploring the terror of isolation, compounded by the responsibility of manning something as critical to other people’s survival as a lighthouse. There are so many interesting ways to create tension and a sense of paranoia. And while Static Dread: The Lighthouse doesn’t fully achieve these things, it offers a number of compelling ideas that make it a captivating experience.

Static Dread: The Lighthouse places the player in the role of a Lighthouse Keeper, newly assigned to a remote island outpost after a strange phenomenon has occurred across the world. An... Read more

Nautical horror game Static Dread is like a Lovecraftian Papers Please

Lighthouses are bad news, everybody knows that. Just ask Jack from Bioshock. Or Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe in The Lighthouse. Or Lena from Annihilation. Across all media-just take those mainstream examples from games, films, and literature respectively-lighthouses are creepy and filled with incomprehensible horror. Static Dread The Lighthouse follows in the eerie footsteps of Bioshock and Dredge with its own spin on the creepy lighthouse genre, mixing Papers, Please style gameplay with old school graphics and that eldritch Lovecraftian horror.

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Localization Hotfix

Fixed French localization
Corrected menu items for Chinese and Japanese languages

Static Dread is OUT NOW!

[h3]Today is a big day for us! You can finally dive into the full version of Static Dread: The Lighthouse, and experience a story full of unexpected twists we worked so hard on.[/h3][p][/p][p]Firstly, thank you everyone for supporting us, helping us with your feedback, testing the game early, proofreading our translations and reporting bugs. Our community is amazing, and we cannot be more grateful for you 💚[/p][p][/p][p]We are offering a big launch discount of 25%, and it’s the largest discount the game will ever be on, so grab it right now![/p][p][/p][p]Also, watch the new release trailer to see what awaits you in the full version:[/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p][/p][h3]Moreover, we prepared some exciting bundles for those who like good scares:
[/h3][h3]Static Dread + MiSide[/h3][p]Terrifyingly cute psychological horror, where you care for a character in a video game, but then suddenly find yourself inside of it. [/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][h3]Static Dread + Mouthwashing[/h3][p]First-person horror that takes you to space, where your crew is dying, and you slowly drift away to madness[/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][h3]Thanks again for your support. We will continue building the Static Dread universe, and hope to see you in the game![/h3][p]
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