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Rules of the Inn is a horror game set in an old Japanese inn. At night, you watch your room from your futon: you cannot leave, and the rules on the wall are your guide to surviving until morning. Look for anomalies in sounds, shadows and lamplight, then perform the rite required by the relevant rule. Judge incorrectly, and morning will not come.

Watch and perform the rites

When something is in the room, traces of earlier guests may appear on the walls or beside your futon. You can stare at a trace to note it, but the thing in the room keeps moving while you do. Rites include pouring oil into the lamp, lowering your eyes, turning away from a hole in the wall, staring at a red stain and lowering the lamp shade.

Record the guests

By morning, open the inn's Register and compare the traces you noted with the information in its margins. Page by page, write down who the earlier guests were and how they died. The Register records the guests who obeyed the rules only by name.

Nights and anomalies

The full game covers seven nights in a row, with more than one ending. Each dawn adds another rule to remember, and your nights determine which morning you wake to. The full game includes 34 kinds of anomaly and 40 individuals; the demo shows only some. An anomaly of the same kind can appear on a different surface, at a different size or distance on another run. On some nights, a rule on the wall cannot be read.

Demo and full game

The demo covers nights 1–3. Its Register lets you record who the earlier guests were and how they died across those three nights. The full game adds new rites after the third night, a longer Register and multiple endings.