Manual
Everything you need to start a shift. The rest the hotel will teach you, whether you like it or not.
Controls
Keyboard and mouse. Every action can be rebound under Options ▸ Controls, including onto mouse buttons.
| Action | Default |
|---|---|
| Move | W A S D |
| Look | Mouse |
| Sprint | Left Shift |
| Jump | Space |
| Crouch | Left Ctrl |
| Use, pick up, hold to work | E |
| Drop what you are carrying | G |
| Throw what you are carrying | Q |
| Torch on and off | F |
| Swing an axe | Left mouse button |
| Steady a carried load (hold) | Right mouse button |
| First or third person | V |
| Emote wheel (hold, point, release) | T |
| Pause menu | Esc |
The shift
A night runs from 22:00 to 06:00 — twenty-four real minutes, three minutes to the hotel hour. It gets stranger as it goes on: the first two hours are a job, and the last two are not.
The front desk
Guests ring the bell and wait. Check them in and hand over the right key from the board behind the desk. The open night book on the counter records the night as it happens — hold E to pick it up and read it.
Calls
Incidents appear across the building: sick on a carpet, a broken air conditioner, a smoke alarm going off, a room that wants its breakfast. Many need a tool — the mop and bucket, the toolbox, a torch, the master key — so the job is often two trips: one to fetch the right thing, one to use it. Carried things are carried in your hands, and they bump into door frames.
The lift and the master key
Rooms are locked. The master key on the board opens any of them, and the lift serves the floors guests can book. It also has a button for a floor that is not on the directory. You will need the master key to press it, and something to see with when you get there.
The rating
The hotel starts every night at five stars, shown on the wall behind the desk and on your screen. Every call left open drains it; answering calls, keeping guests happy and getting them to the right rooms keeps it up. At 06:00 the register prints the night's audit — what cost you what, and who did the most.
| Stars | Rating | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| ★★★★★ | 90–100% | Five-star service |
| ★★★★☆ | 75–89% | Four-star standard |
| ★★★☆☆ | 60–74% | Three-star standard |
| ★★☆☆☆ | 40–59% | Budget accommodation |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | 20–39% | One-star establishment |
| ☆☆☆☆☆ | 0–19% | Unrated property |
Losing every star does not end the night. You still have until six.
Difficulty and modifiers
Four difficulties — Easy, Normal, Hard and Good Luck — change how fast things go wrong, never what a star means. Easy also shows arrows to whatever needs doing next. Shift modifiers, ticked in the menu, make a night worse on purpose.
Co-op
- One to four players, online through Steam. Host from Play, then invite friends from the Steam overlay; they can join a night already under way.
- The host runs the session. If the host leaves, the session ends.
- There is no in-game voice chat yet. The official Discord has voice rooms sized for a party of four, and a channel for finding a crew.
- Everyone must be on the same version of the game.
Accessibility
Under Options ▸ Accessibility: field of view, inverted look, reduced camera motion, reduced flashing, toggle sprint and crouch, visual task directions on every difficulty, and sound captions with a choice of size, background and colour. Captions show which side a sound came from.
Something went wrong
- Stuck in the level: Pause ▸ Unstuck puts you somewhere solid.
- A bug: Pause ▸ Report a bug sends a description with the log, a screenshot and any crash dump, after showing you what it will send.
- Anything else: support@nightaudit-game.com.