History VideoGame / LighthouseTheDarkBeing

** After you meet him in Martin's Roost, the Birdman follows you to the Temple and immediately starts attacking Lyril, who is unable to fight back. You have to incapacitate it with the user of a conveniently placed electromagnet.

* [[spoiler: ElectricTorture: The Dark Being did this to Jeremiah Krick in an attempt to force him into revealing his research. At the end of the game, you also have to use the torture machine to wake him up.]]

* [[spoiler: EvilKnockoff: The Dark Being stole Dr. Krick's blueprints to replicate his portal device, and this one involves a complicated sequence just to turn it on. It still requires the same kind of bulb, and lightning to work, though.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: Defeating the guardian monster on the Island Fortress requires luring it to the top of one of its towers with a fish (hinted at when seeing the Dark Being dangling one in front of it, outside a window), and then blasting the creature off the island with a cannon from another tower. The hardest part is actually [[GuideDangIt waiting for the thing to go towards where the fish is.]]

Sometimes simply known as ''Lighthouse'', this pre-rendered first-person adventure game was released in 1996 hard on the heels of ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', by none other than Creator/{{Sierra}}. It can now be purchased on WebsiteGOGDotCom.

Sometimes simply known as ''Lighthouse'', this pre-rendered first-person adventure game was released in 1996 hard on the heels of ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'', by none other than Creator/{{Sierra}}.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Dr. Krick had intended to use his portal device to create wormholes to [[FoldThePageFoldcross light-years of space instantly. His test runs proved that it leads to a ParallelUniverse instead.

* PipeMaze: One of the gun's pieces is secured by a puzzle that's unlocked by this. You have to use a diving-bell-like contraption to rotate a series of valves so that the steam flow reaches the bottom. Oh, and it's all inside the volcano's caldera.

* LighthousePoint: As if the title wasn't obvious enough. The setting is actually fairly realistic, given [[TruthInTelevision how many coastal lighthouses populate Oregon.]]

* LuredIntoATrap: Defeating the guardian monster on the Island Fortress requires luring it to the top of one of its towers with a fish (hinted at when seeing the Dark Being dangling one in front of it, outside a window), and then blasting the creature off the island with a cannon from another tower. The hardest part is actually [[GuideDangIT waiting for the thing to go towards where the fish is.]]

* BeautifulVoid: When you arrive in the parallel world, the only people left are Lyril and the Dark Being, the latter of whom is implied to have either driven off or killed everyone else.

* LateToTheTragedy: By the time you reach the parallel world, the temple Priests are long dead, along with the inventor Martin, just months after his meeting with Jeremiah Krick.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: Unusually for a Sierra game, this can happen if you use Dr. Krick's portal, teleport back to Earth from the Temple, and repeat three times until the three glass bulbs needed to make Krick's portal work are exhausted.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: The start of the game seemingly paints the Dark Being as just a weird, humanoid monster that talks in gibberish, which Dr. Krick is led to believe for some time. Then as the game goes on, you start to see signs of greater intelligence, from using a rowboat to having built everything in his cavernous hideout, and finally [[spoiler: copying Dr. Krick's portal device.]]

* RobotBuddy: Martin had designed his Birdman as a friendly companion, but at some point the Dark Being corrupted it into becoming [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters hostile]], imprisoning its own creator until he starved to death. It's only through your intervention when it follows you to the temple and attacks Lyril that the Birdman is finally subdued.

* WouldHurtAChild: The game all but begins with the Dark Being breaking in and snatching baby Amanda from her crib. [[spoiler: And he put her to work in his mine, crushing chunks of ore.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: An alternate way to end the game involves going back to your car, presumably driving back home.

* RobotBuddy: Martin had designed his Birdman as a friendly companion, but at some point the Dark Being corrupted it into becoming hostile, imprisoning its own creator until he starved to death. It's only through your intervention when it follows you to the temple and attacks Lyril that the Birdman is finally subdued.

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: The whole reason the Dark Being has any interest in our world at all was because [[spoiler: Dr. Krick had let it into his lab several times, out of curiosity. He regrets it later upon noticing that it started stealing his equipment over time, and he even decided to go after the Being himself when it created its own portal.]]

* CoolBoat: The fish-shaped submarine that covers more of the parallel world than any other vehicle combined, short of using portals.