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HauntSoft · Published by HauntSoft · Official site ↗
Content notice: This game contains graphic violence, blood, rotting corpses, disturbing imagery, depictions of children in danger, psychological trauma, and flashing lights.
4 user reviews — 100% positive (4 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Awoken by a lightning strike, your eyes adjust to the dark in the basement of a strange man's house. Find items, solve puzzles, evade your pursuer, and discover the truth of this house in this survival-horror RPG.
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Indie, RPG, Simulation, Casual · 2025 · More under £5 games
In The Lightning Girl, navigate dark corridors and solve enigmatic puzzles as you uncover secrets of an eerie house. Evade your pursuer and piece together the truth with each step.
About this game
The year is 2002, you wake up from a nightmare only to find yourself in an entirely new one. As your eyes adjust to the dark, you realize you've been kidnapped and are held captive in dingy basement.
Escape...
Finding items to aid your escape will require you to solve puzzles, evade your pursuer, and explore.
The house:
Tucked away in a rural area, lies this completely trashed home. Inside, everything is from the 90s. It doesn't look like any of it has been touched in a decade. You'll have to use anything you can find to your advantage if you want to escape.
Your captor:
A strange man lives in this house. You're unsure of his name, life story, or even motivation. It'll be up to you to solve these mysteries as you progress through the home.
Features:
Digital art reminiscent of early 2000s flash games and older RPG Maker classics.
A self-contained story focused on trauma and mental illness.
1-2 Hours of gameplay, designed to be completed in a single sitting.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 650 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Recommended
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 9/OpenGL 4.1 capable GPU
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 650 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
UPDATE 2.0 OUT NOW!
Hi all! The 2.0 version of The Lightning Girl is OUT NOW! This update includes 6 new languages!SpanishFrenchPortugueseRussianChinese (Simplified)JapanesePrologue!A new prologue gives a bit more setup to the events before the game! It's something I always wanted to add but didn't feel like I had enough time for it.Epilogues!2 epilogues have been added depending on which ending you get! These give some insight to how the events of the game may impact the character's life going forward.With all of this, I'm fairly confident in saying this game is entirely feature complete and any future updates will most likely be more languages and bug fixes.Read full article on Community Announcements (Evil Knifeplay Girl)
