Lighthouse Keeper

Lighthouse Keeper

Skip · Narrative · 2020

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 35, under the fair line, at $1.49.

Length
0.2h 0.4h to 100%
Value
$7.45/hr
Reviews
77% of 419 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$7.45/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews77% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 393 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

This dark act takes place from a single day of the Lighthouse Keeper. Listen to keeper carefully and help him to interrupt his twenty-years-old shift at the Lighthouse.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Any. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 43 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 46 percent on value. It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, KARMA: The Dark World ($24.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Blair Witch ($29.99, scores 34).

More about Lighthouse Keeper

1 of the 393 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 391 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 0.2 hours; clearing it takes 0, which is 2.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

72% start to 53% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Lighthouse Keeper is a short psychological indie experience developed and published by Nikita Igorevich Studio that chooses atmosphere and emotional storytelling over traditional gameplay complexity. Rather than building itself around lengthy progression systems or demanding mechanics, the game delivers a focused narrative centered on solitude, routine, and the emotional burden of isolation. It presents itself more...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Lighthouse Keeper scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1469370/lighthouse-keeper
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNikita Igorevich Studio
PublisherNikita Igorevich Studio
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6