Play Lighthouse: The Dark Being Online

Lighthouse: The Dark Being came out in 1996 from Sierra On-Line, a familiar name for anyone digging through MS-DOS classics back then. It was part of that wave of first-person adventures that relied on pre-rendered backgrounds and a slow, deliberate pace, more about soaking in an unsettling atmosphere than fast action. You don't get many games that blend sci-fi and horror so quietly, and this one always stood out for how it built its mystery not with jump scares, but with a deep, lingering sense of wrongness.

You play as a man pulled into a strange, alien world after investigating your neighbor's disappearance. The core of the game is navigating screen by screen, picking up items, solving environmental puzzles, and avoiding creatures that stalk the dimly lit corridors. There's no direct combat; instead, you use a camera to stun enemies or find ways to bypass them entirely. Progress is slow, methodical, and often punishing if you miss a clue or use an item incorrectly. Playing it feels like being trapped in someone else's nightmare, where every solved puzzle only pulls you deeper into the gloom.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".