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Odd Floor
How to play
Desktop ← or A: SAME (nothing changed) · → or D: ODD (something changed) · drag to look around · P pause
Touch The two buttons
About Odd Floor
Odd Floor is a free anomaly horror game in the browser, set inside a hotel elevator. Every time the doors slide open you see the same corridor: green wallpaper, a row of cream doors, warm wall lamps, a painting of a lighthouse and a green exit sign at the far end. Your only job is to decide whether this floor is exactly the one you remember. If nothing changed, press SAME and ride on. If anything is off, press ODD and report it.
Every right call takes the elevator one floor down, and reaching the lobby ends the night. A wrong call first cuts the lights, and in the dark a tall guest stands in the corridor, a little closer every time you miss. Then a polaroid shows you what you missed, or a note tells you that nothing had changed, and the elevator sends you back up: two floors on the first night, all the way to the top after that. The ride between floors is not always quiet either: the car stutters, stops dead or takes a bang on the doors, and sometimes, as the doors close behind a right call, someone is standing at the end of the hall. The hotel also gets a little darker and more worn every night. From the second night an optional short video lets you keep your floor once per night. A night takes a few minutes, and the whole game lasts about half an hour.
There are eleven nights and 48 odd things to find. The first night is obvious: the painting hangs upside down, the lights turn red, an extra door appears. The second is about small details, such as a lamp that went out, a door painted another colour or a carpet with a new pattern. On the third night you are no longer alone, with a tall guest at the end of the hall, a black cat and ash footprints leading to a door. The fourth night you have to listen, because a phone rings, someone knocks from inside a room and a clock ticks. On the fifth the change can be inside the elevator itself, so you drag to look around the cab. The sixth brings changes that only show while the doors are opening, and floors that sound wrong but are not.
The later nights change the rules instead of the corridor. On the seventh the power is cut and the hall is lit only by weak emergency light. On the eighth smoke fills the far end of the corridor. On the ninth the doors close on their own, and if you have not decided in time the elevator counts it as SAME. On the tenth you ride to another wing of the hotel with a blue carpet, dark doors and a different painting, so you have to learn a new normal. The last night is the longest ride, and it ends in the lobby with one final call. After that the nights go on endlessly.
Every odd thing you report correctly goes into the album, which keeps all 48 with the polaroid you took. Odd Floor plays with one finger on a phone or tablet, using the SAME and ODD buttons, and with the keyboard or mouse on a computer: the left arrow or A for SAME, the right arrow or D for ODD, drag to look around and P to pause. It is creepy but not gory: there is no blood, only short scares in the dark and a hallway that is almost right.
Game details
- Developer
- Arcade Whale
- Genre
- Horror
- Released
- Platforms
- Browser (desktop, mobile, tablet)
- Orientation
- Portrait or landscape
- Players
- Single player
- Leaderboard
- Weekly, resets every Monday
Frequently asked questions
How do I play Odd Floor?
Each time the elevator doors open, compare the corridor with the normal one. If nothing changed, press SAME (left arrow or A). If anything is different, press ODD (right arrow or D). Every right call takes you one floor down, and reaching the lobby ends the night.
What happens when I make a wrong call?
The lights go out and a tall guest appears in the corridor, a little closer after every miss. Then you see a polaroid of the odd thing you missed, or a note that the floor was normal, and the elevator goes back up: two floors on the first night, all the way to the top floor on every later night. From the second night you can watch an optional short video once per night to keep your floor instead.
What kinds of changes are there?
There are 48. Some are easy to see, like a painting turned upside down or red lights. Others are small details, people and animals in the hall, sounds such as knocking or a ringing phone, changes inside the elevator, and changes that only appear while the doors are opening.
How many nights are there?
Eleven, from 12 floors on the first night to 28 on the last. Six of them bring a new kind of change and four change the rules: a power cut, smoke in the hall, doors that close on their own, and another wing of the hotel. The eleventh night ends in the lobby, and endless nights follow.
What does the rush hour night do?
On the ninth night the doors close on their own a few seconds after they open. Two short beeps warn you first. If you have not pressed anything by then, the elevator takes it as SAME, so a missed odd floor still counts as a wrong call.
Can I look around?
Yes. Drag with the mouse or a finger to turn your head a little to the left and right. From the fifth night some changes are inside the elevator, on the floor display, the buttons or the walls, so it pays to look around the cab too.
Is Odd Floor scary or gory?
It is creepy but not gory, with no blood. A wrong call brings a short scare in the dark, the elevator sometimes stutters, stops or takes a bang on the doors between floors, and now and then someone is out there as the doors close. The hotel grows darker and more worn night by night, and the rest of the tension comes from a corridor that is almost the same as before.
Do I need to download anything or pay?
No. Odd Floor runs directly in the browser on phones, tablets and computers, with no download and no account. It is free and nothing is sold for real money; your nights and album are saved on your own device.
