Floor 9

Nine floors down. Pay attention.

Hotel Liminal gives you one corridor and two buttons. One says there is an anomaly. One says there is not. Only one of them takes you closer to the exit.

Step out of the lift and walk the floor in your own headset. Lean in to a painting, turn to check the door behind you, then reach out and press the lift’s buttons with your own hand. A door that was closed is open. A painting hangs an inch lower than it did a floor ago. Or nothing has moved at all, and the only thing standing between you and the next floor is your own doubt.

• Nine floors, one way out. Every mistake costs you the entire descent.
• Two buttons, no hints. No map, no marker, no going back.
• A hotel built to be looked at closely: warm lights, patterned carpet, paintings on every wall.
• Sound doing half the work. Put on headphones and play it in the dark.
• A focused run. Most players reach the exit in under an hour.

Comfort options: snap or smooth turning, head- or hand-relative walking, a tunnel vignette, seated or standing play, room-scale walking and a left- or right-handed pointer.

The exit is nine floors below you. Take your time.