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The Forgotten Lighthouse

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The Forgotten Lighthouse — cover art

A lighthouse keeper discovers that the light doesn't just guide ships—it holds back creatures from the deep. When the light fails, terror emerges from the ocean depths.

At a glance

Genre
Horror · Mystery · Supernatural
Format
Playable interactive novel — narrated live by an AI dungeon master
Length
Open-ended — pacing scales to your choices
Players
Solo or 2–6 player multiplayer party (multiplayer hosting requires Library Pass)
Difficulty
Adaptive — survival mechanics tighten or relax based on your actions. Hardcore permadeath available.
Access
$12.00 (or free with Library Pass)
Platforms
Web (dovorite.com) and native iOS / Android apps
Language
English

How it plays

In The Forgotten Lighthouse, you create a character with a point-buy stat spread, then question witnesses, piece together clues, and call for Wisdom or Intelligence checks at decisive moments; manage rising dread, hunger, and injury while the narrative tightens around you. The AI dungeon master (GPT-4o, with Gemini 2.5 Flash as a fast fallback) narrates each scene, reacts to your typed or spoken actions, and calls for dice rolls when the outcome is uncertain.

Your inventory, gold, health, and 15 equipment slots update automatically from the narrative — pick up a sword in chapter one and the AI remembers you have it in chapter four. Food, rest, potions, and healing magic each affect survival in distinct ways, and difficulty adapts to how aggressively you play. In hardcore mode death is permanent; in standard mode you can rejoin the story through the Resurrection system.

What players say

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