

The Cursed Ward
Psychoception Productions · June 26, 2026 · Psychological Horror, Hidden Object, Action, Runner, Exploration
Buy The Cursed Ward from Steam at $13.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.
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The Cursed Ward price by region
The Cursed Ward costs £12.49 in the United Kingdom, $13.99 in the United States, $13.99 in Georgia (USD), €14.49 in Europe (EUR), CA$16.49 in Canada, A$19.75 in Australia, NZ$21.99 in New Zealand, R$50.99 in Brazil and zł59.49 in Poland right now.
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| €14.49 | €14.49 | — | 1 | |
| CA$16.49 | CA$16.49 | — | 1 | |
| A$19.75 | A$19.75 | — | 1 | |
| NZ$21.99 | NZ$21.99 | — | 1 | |
| R$50.99 | R$50.99 | — | 1 | |
| zł59.49 | zł59.49 | — | 1 |
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About The Cursed Ward
The Cursed Ward is a first-person psychological horror game where you must navigate 50 procedurally-varied floors of a medical facility, solving its deadly logic through careful observation and pattern recognition to escape alive. Every death is avoidable through skill and focus, making this a fair but punishing test of your ability to learn systems and maintain composure under intense psychological pressure.
THE LOOP
- Explore: Navigate through 50 floors of increasing difficulty.
- Retrieve: Find the Exit Codes required to unlock the next level.
- Survive: Overcome a mix of deadly anomalies and psychological tricks.
MASTERY & FAIRNESS
- Knowledge is Power: Every death is avoidable. Pay attention to your surroundings and read every note to understand the ward's logic.
- Skill-Based Survival: Success isn't luck - it’s about learning the systems and maintaining focus under pressure.
- The Ultimate Goal: Use what you’ve learned to conquer the ward in a single, deathless run.
KEY FEATURES
- Randomized Encounters: Hand-crafted threats distributed randomly - no two runs are the same.
- System-Driven Horror: Not just a game, but a "stress test" of your focus and composure.
- Milestone Floors: Unique challenges waiting at key intervals.
- Speedrun Built-in: Your runs are timed. Master the mechanics and share your best extraction times with friends.
BEHIND THE WARD
Developed by a binational duo: a veteran IT professional with 20 years of experience and a Clinical Psychologist. The game’s "stress test" mechanics are designed using professional insights into psychological pressure and cognitive load.The Cursed Ward — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Player modes
- Single-player
- Controller
- Full controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The Cursed Ward is a fun exploration game where players navigate 50 floors of a hospital ward searching for codes to progress while avoiding various anomalies, with a good balance of difficulty that isn't too challenging or too easy. Players praise the solid gameplay loop, the variety in monster mechanics and floor layouts, and decent replay value through speedrunning and deathless run challenges, with particular appeal to SCP fans.
Its fun game, I enjoy playing it, it's not hard, or easy. Full Game: https://youtube.com/live/Sgx054IPNDE1 found this helpful
This game is pretty fun. We are essentially tasked with navigatin' 50 floors of a ward all while lookin out for codes to elevate to the next floor. All of this to earn our freedom. Solid game for the price tag. Gameplay Impressions: https://youtu.be/i9f94oSA-yo1 found this helpful
check out my playthru here: https://youtu.be/VNcGn8iLdCQ *heads up to steamers: music for the game did flag a copyright issue for me* I had a good time with it. It took me a little over an hour to make it through the 50 floors. Every 9 floors is roughly the same layout with some variation to monsters, lighting, and building condition. Every 10th floor has a unique challenge or gimmick to it. Once you learn all of the locations that codes spawn at, you can start to try to speed run floors. Some replay value in trying to speed run the whole thing or focus on a deathless run. I had a good time learning the mechanics of all the different monsters. I think people who are into SCPs will like them. Bob is by far the creepiest one for me. Not too hard to learn all of the mechanics, but I still found myself getting careless and dying a fair few times, especially when rushing. I would like to see some more variety in monsters get added later.1 found this helpful
Super fun game, plays and look great, it's not too hard, not too easy. Full Game: https://youtu.be/C2Aj6ZHxKGM1 found this helpful
The Cursed Ward is a fun, find-the-code game in which we have to explore a hospital ward and find the code required to move the elevator to the next level. The codes are generally found in various different places, including clipboards, written in blood on the walls and played over audio from telephone loudspeakers. But while we are looking for the codes, we also have to avoid the various anomalies that inhabit the floor. These vary from harmless jelly blobs to rolling boulders, to Bob... a concrete statue that only remains still when you're looking at him. There's 50 floors in the full game to traverse, each 10th floor acting as a kind of extra challenge area. Each run is timed, and your deaths are counted, meaning there's replay value and potential community challenges to be had if you fancy trying to compete against others. The game ramps up the pressure quite well in the later stages and when you're hit with certain combinations of anomalies to avoid, it can really make the floors quite challenging. I had no performance issues whatsoever, the game ran perfectly fine at 1440p (there was no option for 2160p) on the high preset on my system, plus there are two higher graphical…1 found this helpful
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