Labhorror

Labhorror is a first-person horror game about a contractor sent into a locked mansion to recover three scrolls and escape. The mansion is a 200-by-200-metre labyrinth, and a man with an axe hunts its corridors. You cannot fight him; you can use light to push him back, hide or try to outrun him.

The job

The corporation calls the mission an extraction job: retrieve three artifacts and return so it can wipe what remains of your sentence. The briefing warns that an armed outsider is on the premises and gives one useful fact: he cannot stand direct light in his eyes. The job begins in a prison cell, where the terms are read aloud.

The scrolls appear in new positions with each run, generated from a fresh seed. A tracker shows their location for ten seconds, then has a sixty-second cooldown. Once you have all three, it points toward the only door that opens outward.

The mansion

The mansion is a continuous space with no loading screens, made up of sixteen halls and corridors five metres wide beneath 4.6-metre ceilings. It contains 145 lamps and 70 pieces of furniture. Lamps light isolated areas; between them, your flashlight is the only light.

The hunter searches by sight and sound. He hears you sprint and hears bottles drop, and he keeps moving through the corridors. You can hide in one of 60 wardrobes, stay still and listen as he passes.

Survive the hunt

Your flashlight provides six seconds of protective light that can push the hunter back. After use, it takes two minutes to recharge, leaving you without that defence in the meantime.

You can leave a trail with coloured glowsticks. They are unlimited, with up to 24 burning at once, and help you mark a route through a labyrinth that does not remember your path. Noise traps draw the hunter toward their sound, while water bottles help maintain your stamina. There are 24 noise traps and 36 water bottles.

Set up a run

The game has three difficulty profiles and switches for hiding spots, noise lures, glowsticks and ceiling lamps. Turning off the lights changes the conditions of the mansion. It also includes five Steam achievements.