I like to think that the summary of this game is "There's an eldritch abomination trying to kill me, but I have bills to pay and no time for this nonsense."
And then you turn into the monster and either fuck with the next guy for gits and shiggles or are genuinely trying to help by trying to push them into leaving (to no avail), because you’re a good person and/or you honestly don’t have anything else to do at that point.
It's always a rare stuff in these horror games, because some of these introduce the monster too early or too late like the end of the game, this game nails it with the monster Edit:Plus the first encounter with the monster is already amazing
@@sickdog3861 I don’t mind it being in the thumbnail because I personally think it’s too hard to tell what it is unless you’ve already watched the vid or played the game yourself
I love how the tarot card achievements give a plus meaning to the game, and if you go by that logic, the lighthouse is the Tower card. Meaning, that no matter what you do, it is meant to fall and crumble one way or another.
I mean, that second initial part with him looking up in the lighthouse with the kerosene lamp out made me say, “congratulations, it’s the tower card” because it really gives off that visual, even without the tarot attachment. It’s an old school looking lighthouse after all.
I kinda admire lighthouse keepers. It seems like it was a noble, but very lonely job. And any job with such endless isolation is bound to be scary. That’s probably why there’s so much horror based around lighthouses. The fear of feeling like someone is around when you’re supposed to be alone. Either someone is there to kill you, or you really are completely alone. Both options are scary.
It’s very easy to make it seem scary when it’s on an island so far from the mainland. Mostly due to weather, the unknown, the isolation, and the mundanity making it very easy to lose your grasp of the passage of time. Not including and pre-existing undiagnosed mental issues or disorders that could be triggered by such a prolonged stay in such an environment. Most people probably couldn’t handle the dreary depressing atmosphere for so many days without distraction, let alone complete isolation.
@@Goldenglare_thewindeater They should make it a law that lighthouse keepers need companions so that they... y'know... don't go insane Maybe not necessarily a human companion, maybe like a trained dog or smthm. I wouldn't be surprised if some lighthouse keepers have formed a seagull cult out of loneliness
I don't know about other parts of the world but where I live lighthouses are not that isolated, they're always within reasonable walking distance to a village. Mostly due to the fact that most lighthouses are located on coasts or peninsulas and not on small remote islands where they wouldn't have much use.
@@drawnwithlove3499 Robber: *Breaks into Lighthouse.* Keeper: Halt criminal scum! Robber: *Locks themselves in on top floor.* Keeper: *Army of Seagulls intensifies.*
Hey there! I'm one of the developers of the game :D The first thing I probably want to mention is that you've made this video! I mean, the backstory is that I had a small RUclipsrs list like less than 15 names who I was going to send the game to review, and you were in that list but with a side note like "Nah this guy is too big I think he probably won't even notice a message from me and why will he even care about this small unknown trashy indie horror you've made" yeah I guess now it sounds stupid. When my pal sent me a link to this video I've lost my jaw as I hadn't even get to the list yet. Thank you! That felt really... badass! And "badass" is a great word for how you played the game lol You figured it right. The whole thing, the cycle, the old keeper related to the events happening. I was worrying a lot that all of the reviews we'll receive would be "I don't get it is there a storyline at all the game has no words wtf" but it seems it had just enough words. It's kinda tricky right now, I know, some of the moments we plan to update and polish, it was all done in a big hurry. But you got it and it feels so good lol. So I understand now that I should have never had a doubt in you - the words are true. You're a manly badass hero and I was a fool for missing that point. Btw, the whole game came out from the Global Game Jam 2020, where we decided to make a game without a word. We left a few sentences after all and decided to give some tips in achievements and I'm glad it worked. P.S. Thanks for cutting out the sacks part lol. I've noticed how you started to go up after the first one being hanged. Everyone does. We'll make it more clear. :D Or cut the number of sacks required.
A really nice game with an uneasy eerie feel! I can't wait to play it myself! And you are right - there are lots of RUclipsrs and streamers who can play a game, but MBH's fans know that he will not only play a game _well,_ but understand and thoughtfully interpret it. All with that wonderful voice of his.
@Vitaliy / Sowoke Entertainment Bureau I don't think I've ever seen such a great like to dislike ratio (1500 likes - 7 dislikes), just goes to show what an amazing game you made ESPECIALLY in relation to how humble you are being about it! Its not just Manly who loves this game, but the masses. This is my favorite indie horror game of this year!! I have 1 Question though Vitaliy. Is the reason the lighthouse falls apart in the shotgun ending (and in the Ritual Complete ending) because the lighthouse was not a real "Manmade" Lighthouse; but instead the lighthouse was connected with the heart and the flesh of the entity/island? Basically, was the lighthouse created by the evil that commanded the mothman in order to lure people to the island for the ritual? If it is, I really love that idea. Just like moths drawn to a light or flame, people were drawn to a lighthouse that was not even real in search of work.
more fun fact: Ukraine made a military recruitment video about the shovel a few years ago, it was badass. also many medieval weapons can be traced back to farming implements!
I'm liking this increase of lighthouse themed games. Even if they're man made, lighthouses will always appear otherworldly to me. I'd love to visit one someday and look out on the ocean horizon. The fact that so many ships and sailors relied on them to be a literal beacon in the dark and stormy waters, but now of course tech has advanced kinda makes me feel like they're forgotten relics.
Sapphire if you are looking for a haunted lighthouse, I would say go to Saint Augustine, Florida, USA (if you are not from here). Way before Ghost Hunters even investigated the lighthouse, I visited it during the day and felt like someone was trying to push me down the stairs. It was later in the day and there wasn’t really anyone there. I 100% believe it was the owner who committed suicide. He wanted us OUT. Ghost Hunters found some shadows and captured them on camera. You should check it out if you want to visit a beautiful lighthouse AND get some haunted insight. I feel sorry for the previous owner as he felt despaired for some reason. I don’t know why though and don’t know that history.
i know what you mean. there's a little lighthouse near where my grandma lives that we'd go visit pretty regularly, and while it was just a normal building w an attached museum, it was always so otherworldly to me, with the tall, steep steps at the end and the distorted, cut glass. seeing the rotating light in person is also kinda spooky, since it travels so far. im glad ppl are mining them for horror games now, although i cant help but love the chapter in Uzumaki best
I'd like a horror game with a simple ending right at the beginning where you can NOT DO what everyone tells you NOT TO DO and you skip all the horror in the game for a quick and simple ending.
it's not quick but Witch's House has an ending where you just chill in the forest and can eventually leave because the witch keeping you trapped eventually dies
Not a horror game but a choose your own adventure book where you're a kid and your mom tells you to wait in the lobby of her work and you have the option to do that and if you do your mom comes back and you just leave and thats the ending.
I really liked how the duality of the lighthouse is juxtaposed here. Usually, the lighthouse is a beacon to "keep away" for ships but for moths, it's a beacon of attraction. Also... LÄMP
The game kinda reminds me of Siren, like how the monsters where once human and being able to see from their perspective. It's kinda eerie because it makes you more aware of that you're being chased by a sentient being.
This was awesome. The opening segment is good for setting the tone, but the flipped perspective segment is so well done. That genuinely elevated the game for me, it was great seeing the loop in full force.
one thing i really liked was the recurring seagulls. Like at first they're just your usual maritime fauna, but they appear in special locations! like the ones gathered around the buried seagull by the hut, where the lighthouse talisman is, i think by the overturned boat too? also the buried dead seagulls. brrr. if it's taking inspiration by the movie, then seagulls are said to be dead sailors, giving another layer to their presence, and that one that just Stares at you as you pick up the last talisman. very cool game.
@@voiceofthelegion578 Deep sea fish: actual, mutated eldritch abominations that could swallow us all up if it evolved successfully enough Marine Biologists: heehee fishy :)
Imagine just. A normal Lighthouse for once. And any weird stuff that happens is just the Lighthouse Person going insane from being separated from the rest of the world for so long. ...Or how about a Lighthouse in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse? A lighthouse that when spun in one direction or another goes backwards and forwards in time? I can probably come up with more... Lighthouses are definitely just... one of those things where you can let your imagination run wild with.
I had one where the ancient manifestation of evil only existed within the light range of the lighthouse, and was strongest when the ambient light was the brightest, mostly patrolling along the sweep of the lighthouse's beam. I was kinda tired of dark always being where the evil thing lurked, and thought it would be interesting to force the protagonists to hide in the shadows and pray that there were no gaps in their refuge while the creature stalked. Shadows are relatively easy to banish, they are a void and can easily be filled with very little light. Light... not so much. Light is a presence, and thus has to be blocked, redirected, and has a way of getting around barriers that aren't carefully thought out.
since no one explained it, I think the shotgun ending, the tower collapses after you (likely) shoot the oil canisters, destroying it, which is why the player could be seen standing outside of it when it collapses
They're just kind of ominous. Standing silent and tall out there. Away from civilization. Just shining a mesmerizing light every night. Visible for miles and warning of danger.
37:34 Carefully picks up bird corpse, mops the floor and cleans away all of the oil spill... .... ... .. . Carefully places bird corpse back onto the floor... Ah yes, perfectly clean.
I'm both surprised by but loving the growing amount of Lighthouse themed games. Not sure if it was inspired by Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse, the one chapter in Uzumaki or even Seashells, which was based around a lighthouse but I think it's cool. The ocean is still a freaky place as we have only covered a portion out there and stuff like The Lighthouse are freaky since that movie had you questioning what was happening and what was all in their heads. Edit: This is DEFINITELY inspired by The Lighthouse. The way the lighthouse is laid out and even the over view of the house is pretty much the same.
As far as giant insects go, moths sound the least threatening. They’re harmless, they look like butterflies, they flutter around weightlessly, and a lot of them are downright fluffy.
Franz Kafka meets Lovecraft. The camera work to substitute words and atmosphere was superb, even though the dev said it was made "in a hurry" its a surprisingly complete game!
So wait, the developers totally missed the ending where you could have gone down and gotten chased then, with the shotgun, blast the heart that was hiding down there and maybe end/free the other mothman.
I actually really really loved this game. It was very atmospheric, good plot, great scare with very few jumpscares, with a very good use of camera perspective to build tension. If it was a movie I'd say it was shot really really well, every camera framing was well-thought, and it respected the #1 rule of horror stuff up until very late in the game: to not show the actual monster, because nothing builds tension more than not knowing what are you facing. Fear of the unknown and unseen is the best, biggest fears and the devs used it very well. Truly big kudos to them. On a side note, when Manly at 00:05 said "a horror game... where really no one lives under the lighthouse, please don't check there" I got big Cecil from Welcome To Night Vale vibes.
It looks like that's definitely it, a continuous cycle until it ends one way or the other. I know Manly said the true ending is grabbing the gun and shooting the mothman thing but I figured an alt. to the true ending is the mothman killing the human in the chase. It looks like the cycle continues because if the human does escape, they get curious anyway and dive deeper, obtain the cursed chest and items, get sick, turn into the larvae and then a mothman themselves and it just continues forever when yet another human arrives at the lighthouse. The mothman seems to kind of 'remember' who he is when listening to the music. Hence you're then given the next chance at killing the man. Maybe the mothman in that moment realizes he has to end this and make sure he's the last one, and knows if he lets the human escape then there'll be more after him. For the shotgun true ending it's like Manly said, kinda boring but similar since it's trying to end the cycle, other than the human wins and monsters lose. But even in that alt. true ending the humans win, but they had to sacrafice a human for them to, even if it's the monster killing him. I really like thinking super deeply about stuff for literally no reason at 3AM.
The real Lovecraftian horror is how the heck the player character was able to clean the lighthouse windows without a ladder. Those suckers are massive and they must've come out of ARMS or something to have such a reach!
_I'll never look at moths the same way again_ Spoilers: This was a really cool experience & I agree with your interpretations absolutely. I think the boatman is like a priest so to speak for the Old Moth God. Somehow he discovered the Moth, maybe in sailing & fell under its power. So the original keeper who is the Moth/Man we see is unhappy & afraid of the Moth God - he stopped to listen to the music maybe remembering his past life as a man - and he wanted to be killed to end the cycle of sacrifices. Playing as the former keeper & the new one was a great twist & very unique. If this is the developer's first game, they did a wonderful job of capturing unease and horror and that that anxiety of not knowing what the heck is going on. The scene with all those moths outside the lighthouse windows was really freaky as was seeing the face on the giant caterpillar. Thank you for all the endings, as always and for your commentary and explanation.
This has to be my favorite lovecraftian game since bloodborne. It captures the isolation, atmosphere and most importantly, the 'other worldly' aspect of the creature and where it lives that makes lovecraft what it is.
*Sees this on steam and looks up youtube videos for it and goes to this video* "I wonder if someone made a reference to The Lighthouse yet?* *Looks at the comment section asking why is there a so many lighthouse games lately* " 𝓗𝓐𝓡𝓚!!!"
ending 1: cycle ends, ritual completes, whatever exists underneath the lighthouse has arisen to the material world because you literally caught yourself and created a proper time loop. When two people of their same self meet in the same timeline things happen~ ending 2: cycle repeats because you failed to meet yourself. the game's events repeats ending 3: Cycle ends, the being does not reach the Material world and the keeper is freed of their duty. So in reality our mission all along was to kill the cycle and that's why their is always an endless amount of "keepers" heading to the island. It can be argued that the island itself is actually outside the time loop; as you do see images of yourself at the 2nd of cycle 3 ending on the way to the light house at the same time there are two in a boat too. Chest feels like Pandora's box honestly, forbidden knowledge. The gun is a metaphor for force of will and enlightenment: overcoming the burden of knowledge and achieving conscious will over the cycle: hence it's defeated and "killed" by unlocking the chest and achieving "understanding" before the cycle loops you around again due to ignorance.
I like that there's something of a double meaning to the name of this one; either "nobody lives under the lighthouse" as in "there is nobody living there" or as in "nobody who goes under the lighthouse lives to tell the tale"
manly:this is probably like the third lighthouse game I’ve played you know your a gamer when you’ve played a very specific type of game three different times
Its actually awesome that for such a small indie game theres so much replay value. Not only different endings. I played this earlier. So many different things happened between yours and my playthrough. Even level designs, cutscenes and monsters. Completely different. Definitely worth its $12 asking price.
"Damn you Spider-Man" Willem DaFoe was in a film called The Lighthouse, he also played the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Headcanon: You're playing as Norman Osborn
I must have missed the lighthouse gamejam Actually i really liked this game. I think the different perspective of the monster made it much more interesting.
Not sure if anyone's already said this but the moth creature could very well be a reference to Lovecrafts race of space-faring aliens the Mi-go, which were often described as having insect-like bodies mixed with fungal growths. Or it could just be an original thing, but I felt it was worth pointing out the similarities. The things could actually fly in space under their own power, it was crazy.
I have decided the spider mothman creature's name is bob. He likes to play pranks and give hugs, but sometimes he hugs too tight. He's keeping everyone under the lighthouse to have tea parties and play D&D. He used to be small and loved climbing things but he got too big and accidentally broke your roof. He eats seagulls and got upset you were digging up his food. The empty holes are because he already ate those seagulls. He hid the coins around the island as a fun little scavenger hunt because he thought you might get bored. He wants you to join because his D&D team is missing a player. Also the moths are because he plants so many flowers come spring.
I only just found this video and channel but you got my subscribe at "We're gonna wanna check under the lighthouse, 'cause we're gonna call their bluff" lol
this game is actually pretty cool, the way they genuinely took their time with the development is nice in gameplay. while you could say it was draw out they did do time skips when necessary and all. they take the time you probably wouldn’t get out of almost any other game and put some solid effort in. the words in the introduction are the kick off and everything else is a silent story. they tell a story better then some top games even as short as the game might be.
Holy damn... This Game TRULY Is Lovecraftian! Not just inspired or similar, but real Lovecraftian feel without bein' a Lovecraft tale... I'm beyond Impressed and Amazed! HOLY DAMN. This would be a Perfect Book, Series or Movie!! ...I need to draw that Monster!!
honestly this was a really awesome game and I really enjoyed the direction and story, it was well conveyed and I would love to see more by this creator and I'd love to see Manly play more!
Wow this was super epic and a lot more involved than expected. Almost a shock after all the smaller gamejam games we've been seeing. The devs clearly have a flair for the cinematic with all the slick transitions and angles they were throwing out both in cutscenes and gameplay. It was very impressive how relatively clearly the story came through despite the limitation of having almost no text.
Becoming the monster is comforting. I feel less afraid looking at the screen, knowing the viewpoint character, under Manly's control (even if briefly), is the monster.
The boat ferryman is definitely in on it . He is bringing in a new person to man the lighthouse at the end of each ending. In the opening he states he thinks the previous lighthouse keeper took a boat and ran. But there’s a boat already on the island. He brings a new person no matter the ending because he expects the player to already be turned into a new mothman.
I'm confused by the chest. I assume they are all the same chest, but one opens underground and unleashes moths, one gets rowed away, and one has a shotgun inside. Did the first keeper drag the chest away and put a shotgun inside to get someone to use it eventually, knowing he would become a monster? With the cyclic design, I think these few scenes are the ones that only happen once (beginning and end of cycle).
The way i see it is that the previous lighthouse keeper had a shotgun in a chest in his home, upon becoming the monster he made his new home under the lighthouse and had an identical chest, however the underground lighthouse hasn't quite reached gunsmithing technology so they just used an eldrich unlimited moth chest instead.
This Game is a lovecraftian masterpiece. The puzzle in which it presents itself, the tension it builds, while having already that dreadful atmosphere and oh boy that twist. It’s got Kafka’s „metamorphosis“ theme goin, but with a twisted cosmic horror taste and not „my family hates me, but I’m also a giant immobile bug now“-way. Also I just really like those old school graphics on these kinds games, like Lost in Vivo. It’s not super detailed models and clean textures, which leads to not also direct uncanny valley, but also leaving things to your imagination. Not to mention the designs, especially the monsters, is brilliant.
When you turn into the monster and are just trying to keep other people from meeting the same fate by sabotaging the place but instead end up causing them to claim the same fate while thinking you’re trying to kill them, thus creating a never ending cycle. Wacky ain’t it?
I'm thinking loop, but maybe not time loop. After you fall into the flesh pit you "see" how the whole thing started, then the next lighthouse keeper comes and you proceed to terrorize him as the previous one did you. The lighthouse falls when you kill the next lighthouse keeper before he could fall into the flesh pit, or you kill the previous lighthouse keeper before he can lure you to the flesh pit. The lighthouse stands ending is the next lighthouse keeper' AI inevitably leading him to fall into the flesh pit afterward, mothman you disintegrates as the cycle continues. The second, third, or later lighthouse keeper is being brought in the boat regardless of the ending, since until the lighthouse falls the cycle is still being perpetuated.
I mean.. I don't get how people find them scary? In a way I can see it but they're actually pretty cool especially the technology and history behind them
1:11:05 GODDAMMIT, I JOKED ABOUT HOW FUNNY IT'D BE IF YOU HAD TO COLLECT THESE OCCULT-LOOKING TALISMANS TO OPEN A MYSTERIOUS CHEST AND ALL YOU FOUND WAS A GUN, I DIDN'T THINK IT'D ACTUALLY HAPPEN
I got new lousy neighbors and I decided to watch this video in headphones (so I don’t hear them) I MADE A MISTAKE. Sound design in this game is insanely terrifying 😭
I like to think that the summary of this game is "There's an eldritch abomination trying to kill me, but I have bills to pay and no time for this nonsense."
And then you turn into the monster and either fuck with the next guy for gits and shiggles or are genuinely trying to help by trying to push them into leaving (to no avail), because you’re a good person and/or you honestly don’t have anything else to do at that point.
That’s sounds like something Manly would say
A monster is a monster but the IRS is the IRS
Yeah the guy really takes it in stride
Replace “An Eldritch Abomination” with “Almost anything in life” and you will have normal life
I like how the game makes the chase scenes second person to avoid showing the monster right away.
the only other place i seen something like that was in driver:san fransisco. Damn that was a good gama
@@molegod8579 Yeah, second person! it's a rare thing but it makes games kinda scary when you can see yourself being chased.
It's always a rare stuff in these horror games, because some of these introduce the monster too early or too late like the end of the game, this game nails it with the monster
Edit:Plus the first encounter with the monster is already amazing
Lol ya but too bad it’s the thumbnail
@@sickdog3861 I don’t mind it being in the thumbnail because I personally think it’s too hard to tell what it is unless you’ve already watched the vid or played the game yourself
Manly: "oh well its a moth its attracted to light"
Also Manly: *keeps lantern lit the entire time he's being chased by Mothman*
That's our badass hero, he doesn't run away from a good party
I love how the tarot card achievements give a plus meaning to the game, and if you go by that logic, the lighthouse is the Tower card. Meaning, that no matter what you do, it is meant to fall and crumble one way or another.
I mean, that second initial part with him looking up in the lighthouse with the kerosene lamp out made me say, “congratulations, it’s the tower card” because it really gives off that visual, even without the tarot attachment. It’s an old school looking lighthouse after all.
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@@molegod8579 Köszi ;)
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So the tower, the hermit, the fool, the devil, and a five of pentacles? Decent five card draw assumption for this format?
I kinda admire lighthouse keepers. It seems like it was a noble, but very lonely job. And any job with such endless isolation is bound to be scary. That’s probably why there’s so much horror based around lighthouses. The fear of feeling like someone is around when you’re supposed to be alone. Either someone is there to kill you, or you really are completely alone. Both options are scary.
Kyra Cook Very well put!
It’s very easy to make it seem scary when it’s on an island so far from the mainland. Mostly due to weather, the unknown, the isolation, and the mundanity making it very easy to lose your grasp of the passage of time. Not including and pre-existing undiagnosed mental issues or disorders that could be triggered by such a prolonged stay in such an environment. Most people probably couldn’t handle the dreary depressing atmosphere for so many days without distraction, let alone complete isolation.
@@Goldenglare_thewindeater They should make it a law that lighthouse keepers need companions so that they... y'know... don't go insane
Maybe not necessarily a human companion, maybe like a trained dog or smthm. I wouldn't be surprised if some lighthouse keepers have formed a seagull cult out of loneliness
I don't know about other parts of the world but where I live lighthouses are not that isolated, they're always within reasonable walking distance to a village. Mostly due to the fact that most lighthouses are located on coasts or peninsulas and not on small remote islands where they wouldn't have much use.
@@drawnwithlove3499 Robber: *Breaks into Lighthouse.*
Keeper: Halt criminal scum!
Robber: *Locks themselves in on top floor.*
Keeper: *Army of Seagulls intensifies.*
Hey there! I'm one of the developers of the game :D
The first thing I probably want to mention is that you've made this video! I mean, the backstory is that I had a small RUclipsrs list like less than 15 names who I was going to send the game to review, and you were in that list but with a side note like "Nah this guy is too big I think he probably won't even notice a message from me and why will he even care about this small unknown trashy indie horror you've made" yeah I guess now it sounds stupid.
When my pal sent me a link to this video I've lost my jaw as I hadn't even get to the list yet. Thank you! That felt really... badass! And "badass" is a great word for how you played the game lol
You figured it right. The whole thing, the cycle, the old keeper related to the events happening. I was worrying a lot that all of the reviews we'll receive would be "I don't get it is there a storyline at all the game has no words wtf" but it seems it had just enough words. It's kinda tricky right now, I know, some of the moments we plan to update and polish, it was all done in a big hurry. But you got it and it feels so good lol.
So I understand now that I should have never had a doubt in you - the words are true. You're a manly badass hero and I was a fool for missing that point.
Btw, the whole game came out from the Global Game Jam 2020, where we decided to make a game without a word. We left a few sentences after all and decided to give some tips in achievements and I'm glad it worked.
P.S. Thanks for cutting out the sacks part lol. I've noticed how you started to go up after the first one being hanged. Everyone does. We'll make it more clear. :D Or cut the number of sacks required.
Honestly I’d be one of those guys who’s all “durr is there story? there be no words”
A really nice game with an uneasy eerie feel! I can't wait to play it myself!
And you are right - there are lots of RUclipsrs and streamers who can play a game, but MBH's fans know that he will not only play a game _well,_ but understand and thoughtfully interpret it. All with that wonderful voice of his.
Hello dev I really like the title screen song may I ask if there is a soundtrack of this game?
@@MarevoCollective Wow a really fast reply! You guys deserve more credit for your game. Yeah RUclips is a good option. I'm looking forward to the OST
@Vitaliy / Sowoke Entertainment Bureau I don't think I've ever seen such a great like to dislike ratio (1500 likes - 7 dislikes), just goes to show what an amazing game you made ESPECIALLY in relation to how humble you are being about it! Its not just Manly who loves this game, but the masses. This is my favorite indie horror game of this year!!
I have 1 Question though Vitaliy. Is the reason the lighthouse falls apart in the shotgun ending (and in the Ritual Complete ending) because the lighthouse was not a real "Manmade" Lighthouse; but instead the lighthouse was connected with the heart and the flesh of the entity/island? Basically, was the lighthouse created by the evil that commanded the mothman in order to lure people to the island for the ritual?
If it is, I really love that idea. Just like moths drawn to a light or flame, people were drawn to a lighthouse that was not even real in search of work.
It would be mildly inconvenient if someone did live under the lighthouse.
Sure hope noone does lol
Good thing no one does live under the lighthouse, right guys?
I live above the lighthouse *points to the floating house above the lighthouse*
Lilly UWU Columbia?
jiiiiiiiim get out of the lighthouse you are scaring the keeper
♬ Mothman,
There's no need to feel down
I said, Mothman,
Chase that man underground ♬
LiliumSnow I said, Mothman.
The lighthouse is your home now.
@@supimjusthere7774 Moth- man - time is here now-
its easy at the L-i-g-h-t
easy at the h-o-u-s-e
@@CartoonCat.And.SonicTH its just me and you moth man!
Stay a while i have Parmesan!
What song is this
@@FoxDyed27 Just some made-up lyrics to the tune of the Y.M.C.A song. :P
fun fact: a shovel is the most readily available alternative to the medieval halberd, arguably one of the most effective historical melee weapons
Fun fact: Soldiers around the world are trained in proper usage of the shovel.
*happy gasmask noises*
@@MrOmegatronic happy trolldier noises
more fun fact: Ukraine made a military recruitment video about the shovel a few years ago, it was badass.
also many medieval weapons can be traced back to farming implements!
TF2 moment
I dig this sudden influx of niche horror games lately. Earl’s Day Off, Night of the Consumers, and even all these weird lighthouse themed games
Most likely it's due to The Lighthouse film.
If you really like retro horror games you should check out puppet combo
Isn't Manly constantly refering to a jam? That's probably why we got so many of those.
Lt. Kiwi implying I’m not already aware of Puppet Combo, lmao
Lt. Kiwi I love your Lolly pfp btw
I'm liking this increase of lighthouse themed games. Even if they're man made, lighthouses will always appear otherworldly to me. I'd love to visit one someday and look out on the ocean horizon. The fact that so many ships and sailors relied on them to be a literal beacon in the dark and stormy waters, but now of course tech has advanced kinda makes me feel like they're forgotten relics.
Sapphire if you are looking for a haunted lighthouse, I would say go to Saint Augustine, Florida, USA (if you are not from here). Way before Ghost Hunters even investigated the lighthouse, I visited it during the day and felt like someone was trying to push me down the stairs. It was later in the day and there wasn’t really anyone there. I 100% believe it was the owner who committed suicide. He wanted us OUT.
Ghost Hunters found some shadows and captured them on camera. You should check it out if you want to visit a beautiful lighthouse AND get some haunted insight. I feel sorry for the previous owner as he felt despaired for some reason. I don’t know why though and don’t know that history.
i know what you mean. there's a little lighthouse near where my grandma lives that we'd go visit pretty regularly, and while it was just a normal building w an attached museum, it was always so otherworldly to me, with the tall, steep steps at the end and the distorted, cut glass. seeing the rotating light in person is also kinda spooky, since it travels so far. im glad ppl are mining them for horror games now, although i cant help but love the chapter in Uzumaki best
Still wikkies about I think.
@@celes42017 I visited St. Augustine before and next time I'm planning on going on the lighthouse. Lets hope nothing wierd happens to me there.
I've always wanted to write a ghost story set in a lighthouse. It's the perfect location
I'd like a horror game with a simple ending right at the beginning where you can NOT DO what everyone tells you NOT TO DO and you skip all the horror in the game for a quick and simple ending.
Pamali
Oh Far Cry 4 style....that would be awesome
it's not quick but Witch's House has an ending where you just chill in the forest and can eventually leave
because the witch keeping you trapped eventually dies
Not a horror game but a choose your own adventure book where you're a kid and your mom tells you to wait in the lobby of her work and you have the option to do that and if you do your mom comes back and you just leave and thats the ending.
There is a game where these cockroach monster hunt you and you can just leave via the front door right when the game starts
I really liked how the duality of the lighthouse is juxtaposed here. Usually, the lighthouse is a beacon to "keep away" for ships but for moths, it's a beacon of attraction.
Also...
LÄMP
Ironically it’s also a beacon for humans, just figuratively. After all, someone needs to keep it...
@@DeathnoteBBso for a mothman it stands for „mmm tasty hoomanz“
The game kinda reminds me of Siren, like how the monsters where once human and being able to see from their perspective. It's kinda eerie because it makes you more aware of that you're being chased by a sentient being.
Ah yes, the Sight Jack ability. Not to mention some of the guy in Siren actually turn into flying buglike monster.
EricPaz
The "zombies" in Siren are actually called Shibitos.
@@johnmarkcorpuz1860 I didnt call them zombies and I know what they are.
Siren is a gem, I wish manly plays it.
This was awesome. The opening segment is good for setting the tone, but the flipped perspective segment is so well done. That genuinely elevated the game for me, it was great seeing the loop in full force.
one thing i really liked was the recurring seagulls. Like at first they're just your usual maritime fauna, but they appear in special locations! like the ones gathered around the buried seagull by the hut, where the lighthouse talisman is, i think by the overturned boat too? also the buried dead seagulls. brrr. if it's taking inspiration by the movie, then seagulls are said to be dead sailors, giving another layer to their presence, and that one that just Stares at you as you pick up the last talisman. very cool game.
The ocean is the scariest place on earth irl, it's no wonder that ocean adjacent places are attracting horror interest lately.
arent there more deaths through drowning than fires?
Oh hey, I found lovecraft. Nice to see you got a youtube account.
@@danteshydratshirt2360 I mean we spend a whole lot more time in water than we do near fire as well.
It's true. We have real eldritch abominations in this world but we just call them fish.
@@voiceofthelegion578
Deep sea fish: actual, mutated eldritch abominations that could swallow us all up if it evolved successfully enough
Marine Biologists: heehee fishy :)
Imagine just. A normal Lighthouse for once. And any weird stuff that happens is just the Lighthouse Person going insane from being separated from the rest of the world for so long.
...Or how about a Lighthouse in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse?
A lighthouse that when spun in one direction or another goes backwards and forwards in time?
I can probably come up with more... Lighthouses are definitely just... one of those things where you can let your imagination run wild with.
A NORMAL lighthouse?? Pfft- who needs THOSE???
I had one where the ancient manifestation of evil only existed within the light range of the lighthouse, and was strongest when the ambient light was the brightest, mostly patrolling along the sweep of the lighthouse's beam. I was kinda tired of dark always being where the evil thing lurked, and thought it would be interesting to force the protagonists to hide in the shadows and pray that there were no gaps in their refuge while the creature stalked. Shadows are relatively easy to banish, they are a void and can easily be filled with very little light. Light... not so much. Light is a presence, and thus has to be blocked, redirected, and has a way of getting around barriers that aren't carefully thought out.
@@QuantumWaltz that is some bright ideas you have there!
@@QuantumWaltzThe creator should name it 'Don't go towards the light' or something similar.
A lighthouse that you don’t need to check on, just a crap ton of cats who live in it.
“My food!.. damn you, Spider-Man.”
I find myself really enjoying this video. I think I’ll watch more, now.
Spider-Man really broke into his house just to take his crap there
Picks up an eye symbol ''Ah, I see.'' never change Manly.
since no one explained it, I think the shotgun ending, the tower collapses after you (likely) shoot the oil canisters, destroying it, which is why the player could be seen standing outside of it when it collapses
Wouldn't it have been the heart that he found down there
Does everyone just really like lighthouses
Another person said this on a different comment, but it's probably because of the Lighthouse film with Robert Pattinson
They're just kind of ominous.
Standing silent and tall out there. Away from civilization. Just shining a mesmerizing light every night. Visible for miles and warning of danger.
Pie Silica well sailors like those
Kellie Carmichael huh
Lighthouses are nifty
37:34 Carefully picks up bird corpse, mops the floor and cleans away all of the oil spill...
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Carefully places bird corpse back onto the floor...
Ah yes, perfectly clean.
Just a sane man doing sane things. Nothing under the lighthouse. Definitely no Lovecraftian horrors. Just a man and his dead birds.
It makes for a good conversation piece!
Man the build up is phenomenal, mundane tasks with eerie moments, sudden scares and the first actual appearance is great.
I'm both surprised by but loving the growing amount of Lighthouse themed games. Not sure if it was inspired by Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse, the one chapter in Uzumaki or even Seashells, which was based around a lighthouse but I think it's cool. The ocean is still a freaky place as we have only covered a portion out there and stuff like The Lighthouse are freaky since that movie had you questioning what was happening and what was all in their heads.
Edit: This is DEFINITELY inspired by The Lighthouse. The way the lighthouse is laid out and even the over view of the house is pretty much the same.
As far as giant insects go, moths sound the least threatening. They’re harmless, they look like butterflies, they flutter around weightlessly, and a lot of them are downright fluffy.
Unless they're vampire moths lol
I don't trust anything that can fly. They're too unpredictable.
Franz Kafka meets Lovecraft. The camera work to substitute words and atmosphere was superb, even though the dev said it was made "in a hurry" its a surprisingly complete game!
"I hope nobody watching this has a moth phobia"
Don't worry, I do.
I dispise them but i think it's not that scary
*L A M P*
same
but they're so cute :(
@@dopesickdog have you ever seen a rosy maple Lunar moth hybrid? They are so amazing!
13:32
"Oh hey!"
Me: Don't you do it....
"Eye see."
Me: GODdammit.....
I've got a sneaking suspicion that somebody lives under the lighthouse
Don’t be silly. They said right at the start that no one lives there.
Heresy. Pure heresy. How dare you question the truth, they told us that nobody lives under the lighthouse!
It's just a seagull, go to bed
OH
hahaha that is a biiiiig seagull
So wait, the developers totally missed the ending where you could have gone down and gotten chased then, with the shotgun, blast the heart that was hiding down there and maybe end/free the other mothman.
I actually really really loved this game. It was very atmospheric, good plot, great scare with very few jumpscares, with a very good use of camera perspective to build tension. If it was a movie I'd say it was shot really really well, every camera framing was well-thought, and it respected the #1 rule of horror stuff up until very late in the game: to not show the actual monster, because nothing builds tension more than not knowing what are you facing. Fear of the unknown and unseen is the best, biggest fears and the devs used it very well. Truly big kudos to them.
On a side note, when Manly at 00:05 said "a horror game... where really no one lives under the lighthouse, please don't check there" I got big Cecil from Welcome To Night Vale vibes.
It looks like that's definitely it, a continuous cycle until it ends one way or the other. I know Manly said the true ending is grabbing the gun and shooting the mothman thing but I figured an alt. to the true ending is the mothman killing the human in the chase. It looks like the cycle continues because if the human does escape, they get curious anyway and dive deeper, obtain the cursed chest and items, get sick, turn into the larvae and then a mothman themselves and it just continues forever when yet another human arrives at the lighthouse.
The mothman seems to kind of 'remember' who he is when listening to the music. Hence you're then given the next chance at killing the man. Maybe the mothman in that moment realizes he has to end this and make sure he's the last one, and knows if he lets the human escape then there'll be more after him.
For the shotgun true ending it's like Manly said, kinda boring but similar since it's trying to end the cycle, other than the human wins and monsters lose. But even in that alt. true ending the humans win, but they had to sacrafice a human for them to, even if it's the monster killing him.
I really like thinking super deeply about stuff for literally no reason at 3AM.
Al okay but the times when mothman start playing music made me sad for the same reason you mentioned:(
well, in the shotgun ending they can't really investigate the tower because it still crumbles.
That part with 2nd person game play is just *chef's kiss*
Very rarely attempted, even rarer done well. Most Deffs this deserves a chef kiss
YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT COMINNNNNGGG
YOU'LL SEE THAT MY MIND IS TOO FAST FOR EYES
YOU'RE DONE INNNNN
BY THE TIME IT'S HIT YOU
YOUR LAST SURPRISE
more like you'll never SEA it coming am i right fellas
edit: i love how invested manly was with this one, this game is cool
Haha, I get it
The real Lovecraftian horror is how the heck the player character was able to clean the lighthouse windows without a ladder. Those suckers are massive and they must've come out of ARMS or something to have such a reach!
_I'll never look at moths the same way again_
Spoilers:
This was a really cool experience & I agree with your interpretations absolutely. I think the boatman is like a priest so to speak for the Old Moth God. Somehow he discovered the Moth, maybe in sailing & fell under its power. So the original keeper who is the Moth/Man we see is unhappy & afraid of the Moth God - he stopped to listen to the music maybe remembering his past life as a man - and he wanted to be killed to end the cycle of sacrifices.
Playing as the former keeper & the new one was a great twist & very unique.
If this is the developer's first game, they did a wonderful job of capturing unease and horror and that that anxiety of not knowing what the heck is going on. The scene with all those moths outside the lighthouse windows was really freaky as was seeing the face on the giant caterpillar.
Thank you for all the endings, as always and for your commentary and explanation.
This is why I save moths from the dangers of my shower. So if they become gods they won’t murder me ;D
This has to be my favorite lovecraftian game since bloodborne.
It captures the isolation, atmosphere and most importantly, the 'other worldly' aspect of the creature and where it lives that makes lovecraft what it is.
*Sees this on steam and looks up youtube videos for it and goes to this video*
"I wonder if someone made a reference to The Lighthouse yet?*
*Looks at the comment section asking why is there a so many lighthouse games lately*
" 𝓗𝓐𝓡𝓚!!!"
Good job
ending 1: cycle ends, ritual completes, whatever exists underneath the lighthouse has arisen to the material world because you literally caught yourself and created a proper time loop. When two people of their same self meet in the same timeline things happen~
ending 2: cycle repeats because you failed to meet yourself. the game's events repeats
ending 3: Cycle ends, the being does not reach the Material world and the keeper is freed of their duty. So in reality our mission all along was to kill the cycle and that's why their is always an endless amount of "keepers" heading to the island. It can be argued that the island itself is actually outside the time loop; as you do see images of yourself at the 2nd of cycle 3 ending on the way to the light house at the same time there are two in a boat too. Chest feels like Pandora's box honestly, forbidden knowledge. The gun is a metaphor for force of will and enlightenment: overcoming the burden of knowledge and achieving conscious will over the cycle: hence it's defeated and "killed" by unlocking the chest and achieving "understanding" before the cycle loops you around again due to ignorance.
Lighthouse Game 3: The Lightening
No really though, I really dig this game's aesthetic.
Lighthouse 4: Mothmen at your Door.
I like that there's something of a double meaning to the name of this one; either "nobody lives under the lighthouse" as in "there is nobody living there" or as in "nobody who goes under the lighthouse lives to tell the tale"
manly:this is probably like the third lighthouse game I’ve played
you know your a gamer when you’ve played a very specific type of game three different times
Its actually awesome that for such a small indie game theres so much replay value. Not only different endings. I played this earlier. So many different things happened between yours and my playthrough. Even level designs, cutscenes and monsters. Completely different. Definitely worth its $12 asking price.
"Damn you Spider-Man"
Willem DaFoe was in a film called The Lighthouse, he also played the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man
Headcanon: You're playing as Norman Osborn
The moths, they demand your lamps
No please, not me pp
@@iamvan7243 just gonna assume this says 'power points' which is the amount of times you can use your lamp
The return of the Moth Memes: *big lämp*
I must have missed the lighthouse gamejam
Actually i really liked this game. I think the different perspective of the monster made it much more interesting.
2nd person perspective right there
Yer fond of me lobster ain't ye?
Hark!
FORTNITE *cackles like a madman*
The title of this game makes me think that someone does, in fact, live under the lighthouse.
No one lives under it silly
moths dont buzz but i can understand why they do in this game; having moths flying around with no audio in the background mightve felt weird to play
You're fond of me lobster, ain't ye?!
My "No One Lives Under the Lighthouse" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
Not sure if anyone's already said this but the moth creature could very well be a reference to Lovecrafts race of space-faring aliens the Mi-go, which were often described as having insect-like bodies mixed with fungal growths. Or it could just be an original thing, but I felt it was worth pointing out the similarities. The things could actually fly in space under their own power, it was crazy.
I have decided the spider mothman creature's name is bob. He likes to play pranks and give hugs, but sometimes he hugs too tight. He's keeping everyone under the lighthouse to have tea parties and play D&D. He used to be small and loved climbing things but he got too big and accidentally broke your roof. He eats seagulls and got upset you were digging up his food. The empty holes are because he already ate those seagulls. He hid the coins around the island as a fun little scavenger hunt because he thought you might get bored. He wants you to join because his D&D team is missing a player. Also the moths are because he plants so many flowers come spring.
I only just found this video and channel but you got my subscribe at "We're gonna wanna check under the lighthouse, 'cause we're gonna call their bluff" lol
So many recent horror games about lighthouses, not that I'm complaining
this game is actually pretty cool, the way they genuinely took their time with the development is nice in gameplay. while you could say it was draw out they did do time skips when necessary and all.
they take the time you probably wouldn’t get out of almost any other game and put some solid effort in. the words in the introduction are the kick off and everything else is a silent story. they tell a story better then some top games even as short as the game might be.
Holy damn...
This Game TRULY Is Lovecraftian!
Not just inspired or similar, but real Lovecraftian feel without bein' a Lovecraft tale...
I'm beyond Impressed and Amazed!
HOLY DAMN.
This would be a Perfect Book, Series or Movie!!
...I need to draw that Monster!!
ok, manly is literally so good at slipping puns into every moment, and he remains calm at almost every jumpscare, im ngl, i don't think he's human
and with these mythic artifacts you unlock the power.... of a big freaking gun.
Where's Willem Dafoe when you need him?
The sacks must be full of grain. That's why they're kept in an underground granary, and why the seagulls and the moth thing are attracted to
The sessions with the perspective of the monster as it chases you are awesome 2nd person gameplay.
almost passed out
heard a calm "hey" emerge from my headphones
This is the only video of this game that I can find where the player can adequately explain the storylines etc... Thank you for clarifying it for me!
Mmm a nice long Manly video, perfect!
honestly this was a really awesome game and I really enjoyed the direction and story, it was well conveyed and I would love to see more by this creator and I'd love to see Manly play more!
I love the horror games where you're seemingly alone
You are alone, there is no one under the light house tho
Sometimes i just want to hear a soothing deep voice playthrough :3 helps me sleep at night. Your wonderful ❤️
They remade this game, it’s be pretty cool to see you play the updated one!
Wow this was super epic and a lot more involved than expected. Almost a shock after all the smaller gamejam games we've been seeing. The devs clearly have a flair for the cinematic with all the slick transitions and angles they were throwing out both in cutscenes and gameplay. It was very impressive how relatively clearly the story came through despite the limitation of having almost no text.
Becoming the monster is comforting. I feel less afraid looking at the screen, knowing the viewpoint character, under Manly's control (even if briefly), is the monster.
Hate when I’m just trying to do my damn job and the Mothman starts chasing me down to talk to me about my car’s extended warranty.
(Manly digs up the piles around the island)
Spider Monster:
"Yoou have deeesturrrbed ze dirt!"
35 minutes and still waiting for the crank to pull up something horrific when you're expecting the sacks
The boat ferryman is definitely in on it . He is bringing in a new person to man the lighthouse at the end of each ending. In the opening he states he thinks the previous lighthouse keeper took a boat and ran. But there’s a boat already on the island. He brings a new person no matter the ending because he expects the player to already be turned into a new mothman.
Out of all the lighthouse horror games coming out now this one was the best.
This game has changed a ton since this, it's like an entirely different game, should play it again
Runs up hill: immediately starts dying.
the way they do the low quality effect is so good i keep checking my video quality whether im on 360p
I'm confused by the chest. I assume they are all the same chest, but one opens underground and unleashes moths, one gets rowed away, and one has a shotgun inside. Did the first keeper drag the chest away and put a shotgun inside to get someone to use it eventually, knowing he would become a monster? With the cyclic design, I think these few scenes are the ones that only happen once (beginning and end of cycle).
The way i see it is that the previous lighthouse keeper had a shotgun in a chest in his home, upon becoming the monster he made his new home under the lighthouse and had an identical chest, however the underground lighthouse hasn't quite reached gunsmithing technology so they just used an eldrich unlimited moth chest instead.
biggest gripe with this game: MOTHS DON'T BUZZ
they aren't moths, they're mothmen
Were they foretold in the prophecy?!
Maybe they do if they’re 10 feet tall
True, but a bunch of them makes a horrendous fluttering thats CLOSE to a buzz sound
The moths-on-the-windows scare was magnificent
You played the old AVPs?????? Badass, bro! I have AVP 2 on my PC and AVP Classic 2000 on my Steam Deck and PC. Respect to you for knowing those games!
Something about the quick delivery of "It's all meat! It's all meat!" made me abruptly laugh at such a suspenseful time.
This Game is a lovecraftian masterpiece.
The puzzle in which it presents itself, the tension it builds, while having already that dreadful atmosphere and oh boy that twist.
It’s got Kafka’s „metamorphosis“ theme goin, but with a twisted cosmic horror taste and not „my family hates me, but I’m also a giant immobile bug now“-way.
Also I just really like those old school graphics on these kinds games, like Lost in Vivo.
It’s not super detailed models and clean textures, which leads to not also direct uncanny valley, but also leaving things to your imagination.
Not to mention the designs, especially the monsters, is brilliant.
An hour and 20 minutes what a joy
When you turn into the monster and are just trying to keep other people from meeting the same fate by sabotaging the place but instead end up causing them to claim the same fate while thinking you’re trying to kill them, thus creating a never ending cycle. Wacky ain’t it?
One of the only games I can think of that has 2nd person segments. Thanks I forgot what it was called, so this is great.
I'm thinking loop, but maybe not time loop.
After you fall into the flesh pit you "see" how the whole thing started, then the next lighthouse keeper comes and you proceed to terrorize him as the previous one did you.
The lighthouse falls when you kill the next lighthouse keeper before he could fall into the flesh pit, or you kill the previous lighthouse keeper before he can lure you to the flesh pit.
The lighthouse stands ending is the next lighthouse keeper' AI inevitably leading him to fall into the flesh pit afterward, mothman you disintegrates as the cycle continues.
The second, third, or later lighthouse keeper is being brought in the boat regardless of the ending, since until the lighthouse falls the cycle is still being perpetuated.
If someone lived under the lighthouse this game would be terrifying
I like how the Old Keeper is speaking Enchanted Table Language
forget lighthouse we need heavy houses
Just a tower that displays negative lighting
I find it sad that so many people think light houses are scary nowadays. I always found them calming and want to go to one again...
I mean.. I don't get how people find them scary? In a way I can see it but they're actually pretty cool especially the technology and history behind them
5:30 When I first saw the detail on that tree, my first thought was: "That's one of Shub-Niggurath's Thousand Young, isn't it?"
As it turns out, no.
1:11:05
GODDAMMIT, I JOKED ABOUT HOW FUNNY IT'D BE IF YOU HAD TO COLLECT THESE OCCULT-LOOKING TALISMANS TO OPEN A MYSTERIOUS CHEST AND ALL YOU FOUND WAS A GUN, I DIDN'T THINK IT'D ACTUALLY HAPPEN
I don't think it was the previous keeper who became the moth, but the guy who found the chest washed up on the island
I got new lousy neighbors and I decided to watch this video in headphones (so I don’t hear them)
I MADE A MISTAKE.
Sound design in this game is insanely terrifying 😭
For some reason these types of games just make me wanna work at a lighthouse.
Don't forget to give the moth daily light bath
You should have said "You'll never sea it coming", puns are the true lovecraftian horror XD