Explore a Lighthouse and “discover the keeper’s secret” as you stay on board. This is the objective of Not Today, a horror game where the first person player is described by the Announcement Trailer’s description as “new assistant keeper aboard a floating lighthouse in a post-apocalyptic world.” The player’s job is to complete the “objective,” while working to stay alive.
Scale stores looking to complete directives, while watching out for a furry slug creature. With quick feet, the player runs to do what he’s told. It’s revealed that the lighthouse seems to be fully explorable, with the interior and exterior available for the player. Even including the ability to “jump” from the lighthouse balcony. There’s an adorable cat that just purrs on the player’s chest, and other people on the lighthouse. One of them in a cap orders the player to be quiet, while they listen for someone or maybe something. He hears something, something unsettling enough for him to turn off the power in the whole lighthouse. Despite the lighthouse going black, something flies upwards through the whole lighthouse all the way to the top presumably. The player gets themselves out, and the lighthouse shows a “NOT WELCOME” sign indicating a lack of re-entry and alarms sound all over the lighthouse. Kitchen items tilt, books fall out from shelves, and the player holds on as the lighthouse moves to plunge itself in the water. A “failed” status update shows on a black screen indicating the directives weren’t completed. The lighthouse shines at the bottom of the sea, surrounded by rocks, one of the lights illuminate and a body drifting in the sea is shown. The dead body is presumably the player and that’s all that’s left of him at the end of this route. The game done by Chuika will be coming to Steam.