22:00 — 06:00

Night Audit

Work the night shift at a hotel that is quietly wrong.

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Co-op horror · 1–4 players online · Early Access · Windows, macOS, Linux

The day shift hands you a five-star hotel. You have until six.

Night Audit is a co-operative horror game about doing a job properly while a building refuses to co-operate. You are night porters. Guests arrive and want their keys. Somebody has been sick on the third floor. The lift is stuck, a smoke alarm is chirping somewhere you cannot place, and a man in a hallway has not moved in ten minutes.

The job

Answer the bell. Check guests into the right rooms — the ledger says which, and the board behind the desk only has four hooks. Mop what needs mopping and empty the bucket before it stops working. Carry the luggage up. Fix the air conditioning. Find which of fifty-four smoke alarms is going off, by standing still in a corridor and waiting for the next chirp.

The hotel

Twenty-six kinds of incident, dealt into a different hand every night, so no two shifts are made of the same things. Some are a blocked toilet. Some are a radio playing a signal from an empty room, which gets louder as you carry it toward the right door. Some are a copy of one of your colleagues, standing between the stairs and the lift, that only moves while you are looking at it.

And there is a fourth floor. The lift will take you, if you have the master key and the nerve. It is not upstairs.

Screenshots

Three porters goofing off in a second-floor corridor while a fourth figure watches from further down.
Four porters on shift. Count again.
A room service tray flies through the air past a porter holding an axe.
Room service, by the scenic route.
Two porters carrying a mattress at a run down a tilted corridor.
Bedbugs in 214. Fetch a mattress.
A guest flees across the lobby from a porter swinging an axe.
Swinging an axe near a guest costs the night fifteen percent.
Three porters stand in a dark guest room staring at a television full of static.
Turn it off. It will come back on.
A porter in a hi-vis vest stands in the middle of an empty corridor, facing the camera.
A colleague between the stairs and the lift. Look again.
A porter runs down a long corridor in a pool of torchlight.
A floor goes dark. Bring a torch.
A porter faces the breaker board in a brick basement.
The breaker board is in the basement. The basement has no lights.
A pale, screaming head hangs in the doorway of a dark guest room.
The fourth floor is not upstairs.

The rating

Five stars on the wall behind the desk, and they go out one at a time where everybody can see them. At six in the morning a machine prints a receipt for the night — every point you lost, what it was called, and who did what. Somebody gets an award for it. Somebody usually deserves worse.

★★★★★

One to four

Online co-op for up to four players through Steam. Solo is a long walk and a quiet building. Four is a corridor full of people shouting about a bell. Both are the game; the night is paced for whoever turns up.

There is also an emote wheel, an axe, and two things you can do that have no effect on anything whatsoever.

Early Access, and what that means here

The whole night is playable, solo or with up to four, in English, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese. What it does not have yet is in-game voice chat — that is what Early Access is paying for. Until then the official Discord has voice rooms for a party of four.

Before you buy: the host runs the session, and if the host leaves the session ends. Keyboard and mouse only.

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Support

Bug reports are best sent from inside the game (Pause ▸ Report a bug), which attaches the log and crash dump for you. For anything else, write to support@nightaudit.example, post in the Steam discussions, or come and find us on Discord — which is also the place to find a crew.