Lighthouse: The Dark Being (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Lighthouse: The Dark Being

The game is a first person adventure with a point and click interface, similar to Myst.

28 October 1996

What Lighthouse: The Dark Being is

Lighthouse: The Dark Being is an adventure game developed by Sierra On-Line and released in 1996. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Outwit Evil in a Supernatural Mechanical World Pass through a shimmering portal into a world teeming with invention, discovery... and evil. Enter an exotic parallel universe is terrorized by a dark being, where alien technology, unearthly treachery and brain twisting danger skulks around every craggy cliff and corner. You have been summoned on a rescue mission. Lives and worlds hang in a delicate balance. Do you have both the courage and the imagination to leave your world and enter the unknown?

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Lighthouse: The Dark Being launched on 28 October 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.

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