
You've been hired to keep watch in a mysterious building with an infinite stairwell. Your task is simple: investigate each floor for strange phenomena. If you find an anomaly, be careful. Test your skills on the global leaderboard and in the weekly challenge event.
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It's your first day as a security officer in a mysterious building designed by an unknown architect. Within its vast stairwell, you are tasked with inspecting the floors for reported strange phenomena. Make your way through the building and carefully choose which way to go based on your findings.
If everything is normal, proceed upstairs.
If you notice an anomaly, go downstairs, quickly.
Do not miss too many anomalies.
The Stairwell is a psychological horror game inspired by anomaly loop games such as The Exit 8, with a new vertical dimension of massive scale. There are over 50 anomalies to uncover between all difficulties. You can see how many are left to find after you win a game. Anomalies that you haven't seen will usually appear first.
Compete against the world for the fastest game completion time and see how you rank against your friends. Find your name highlighted on the leaderboard in the color according to your ranking.
Customize the difficulty of your playthrough. In nightmare mode, beware: the lights are out. Can you find anomalies in total darkness with your candle?
With a new challenge appearing every Friday, play a variation of the game with different environments and anomalies. Your score will go on the weekly leaderboard.
Game: Toggle jump scares on or off
Camera: Motion blur toggle, camera shake/movement and reticle toggle, FOV slider
Controls: Customize input bindings, mouse sensitivity slider, invert vertical or horizontal mouse look
Graphics: Customize the graphics settings to play on a variety of hardware
Features music from Avith Ortega and Cerulean.
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Languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Spanish - Spain +3 more
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Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Oyun gerçekten çok iyi düşünülmüş. Grafikler, atmosfer, konu… Hepsi tam bir korku gerilimi yaşatıyor. Fakat dürüst olayım, kendi beceriksizliğim yüzünden doğru düzgün oynayamadım. Buna rağmen yapımcının emeğine ve Türkçe dil desteği eklemesine içtenlikle teşekkür ediyorum. Böyle kaliteli bir oyunu kendi dilimizde görmek çok güzel. 👏 İlgisini çekenler, oyunu denemeden önce YouTube kanalımda çektiğim videoya da göz atabilir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPZvCYfPhTk
흔한 8번출구 장르의 게임. 이상현상을 발견하면서 옥상까지 도달하는게 목적입니다. 별 다른건 없었고, 재미는 보통정도의 게임으로 보여집니다. 이상현상도 재밌는것도 있었고, 무서운 것도 몇개 있었고, 그래도 다른 같은 장르의 게임과 다른 점이 리더보드를 제대로 활용했다는 점이 겠네요. 모든 난이도 마다 순위가 정해지고 특히 챌린저 모드는 매주 금요일날 초기화가 되어 맵의 오브젝트들이 랜덤으로 바뀌네요. 도전 욕구 있으신 분들은 매주 순위 경쟁하셔도 될듯 합니다. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45555420-%25EB%258D%2594%25ED%258E%2598%25EC%259D%25B4%25ED%258D%25BC%25EC%2599%2580-%25EA%25B2%258C%25EC%259E%2584%25ED%2595%2598%25EA%25B8%25B0/]Steam Curator ThePaper <--큐레이터 주소[/url]
Yes, I've spent over 17hrs on this game so far! And I got top spot on the Leaderboard for Normal and Hard modes (bet that won't last too long). I wanted to capture all the anomalies, hence why the endless repetition to trigger them all, and still I didn't get some of the Nightmare anomalies! I've played "a lot" of Anomaly games and this is decent. The devs game it to me for free and I helped them out a bit with some bugs before release. But they are keen to keep on developing the game, add more to it, so that is good to see. There's one jumpscare in there that gets me every time... those who have played it already would know the one! No spoilers here... Over 50 anomalies in the game (53 at time of writing this review) and I've listed the ones I found here: https://youtu.be/gfTyZzU_Lg8 However, don't watch it if you want to experience it for yourself! :-) Decent anomaly game Recommended!
Great anomaly hunt game. If you like Exit 8 and Platform 8 etc, you'll love this too as it is arguably better than those games as there's more variety and some are REALLY hard to spot. The weekly challenge mode gives you the choice to keep coming back too for more varied fun on top of the base game.
Genuinely fun. I wish the community was bigger to see more reactions and to have an accurate up to date list of anomalies. The weekly challenges are fun twists and can be a slight relief to the stress the original gamemodes give me.
This is one of those horror games that doesn’t rely on jump scares. Instead, it makes you paranoid in the best way. You're climbing endless floors, checking for “anomalies”—but the changes can be subtle. Like... really subtle. Sometimes it’s a door that wasn’t there. Sometimes it’s a tiny icon shift that makes you question reality and your eyesight. I played a pre-release version and it was already running smooth, with great atmosphere, and a solid amount of replay value. There’s a leader-board, a weekly challenge, and nightmare mode (aka: bring a spare pair of pants). I found heaps of anomalies on my first go and still missed some obvious ones. I also failed to save the dog. I’m not proud of that. Big props to the devs for putting love into the details. If you're into games that test your attention to detail and don’t hold your hand, this one’s a must-play. https://youtu.be/pYr8uDw5mGg
Beautiful graphics, the aquarium was a nice touch. Good jumpscares and weird areas to find. Has 3 modes depending on your preferred skill level. Overall a great anomaly game.
man i really love this anomaly game alot i do every new challenge every friday
As far as Anomaly Hunting games go, this is one of my favorites! It has every flavor of Anomaly and really uses the space given! Silly, scary, cleaver, you name it this game most likely has it! Also, you can save a dog! Who doesn't love saving dogs?!
If you enjoy anomaly games, this is worth a garner. It has: (1) silly anomalies (2) spooky anomalies (3) challenging anomalies (4) a cute shiba (5) a scary clown (6) 4 different difficulties I enjoyed it and I look forward to seeing what the Hidden Palace produces in the future.
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