Knock-knock

You play as the Lodger, a sleepless inhabitant of a remote cabin whose familiar rooms grow strange at night. As unexplained Guests appear, he must make it through each night without losing his sanity.

Explore the house, turn on lights, watch and listen for threats, and hide or flee when Guests draw near. Clocks affect the passage of time, and reaching dawn is the goal of each night.

The house changes as the nights progress, while fragments of diary entries and the Lodger’s thoughts offer pieces of a larger mystery. Find clues and work out the rules of the nighttime ordeal for yourself.

Many supplied reviewers praise the game’s tense, lonely atmosphere, often crediting its visual style and sound for making ordinary rooms and noises feel unsettling. Players also enjoy piecing together its deliberately ambiguous story. Some reviewers find the repeated room-to-room tasks slow or tedious, and say the rules and enemy appearances can be frustratingly unclear or unpredictable.