The Stairwell
Hidden Palace · 2025 · Psychological Horror, Horror, Walking Simulator, Simulation, Indie
PC
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About The Stairwell
It's your first day as a security officer in a mysterious building designed by an unknown architect. Within its vast stairwell, you are tasked with inspecting the floors for reported strange phenomena. Make your way through the building and carefully choose which way to go based on your findings.
How to Play
If everything is normal, proceed upstairs.If you notice an anomaly, go downstairs, quickly.Do not miss too many anomalies.The Stairwell is a psychological horror game inspired by anomaly loop games such as The Exit 8, with a new vertical dimension of massive scale. There are over 50 anomalies to uncover between all difficulties. You can see how many are left to find after you win a game. Anomalies that you haven't seen will usually appear first.Leaderboards
Compete against the world for the fastest game completion time and see how you rank against your friends. Find your name highlighted on the leaderboard in the color according to your ranking.Choose Your Difficulty
Customize the difficulty of your playthrough. In nightmare mode, beware: the lights are out. Can you find anomalies in total darkness with your candle?Weekly Challenge
With a new challenge appearing every Friday, play a variation of the game with different environments and anomalies. Your score will go on the weekly leaderboard.Options
- Game: Toggle jump scares on or off
- Camera: Motion blur toggle, camera shake/movement and reticle toggle, FOV slider
- Controls: Customize input bindings, mouse sensitivity slider, invert vertical or horizontal mouse look
- Graphics: Customize the graphics settings to play on a variety of hardware
Music
Features music from Avith Ortega and Cerulean.Streaming and Video Content
You are free to live stream the game and upload video content. It is appreciated if you mention the game's title in any descriptions and link the Steam page. Thank you!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Great anomaly hunt game. If you like Exit 8 and Platform 8 etc, you'll love this too as it is arguably better than those games as there's more variety and some are REALLY hard to spot. The weekly challenge mode gives you the choice to keep coming back too for more varied fun on top of the base game.3 found this helpful
Genuinely fun. I wish the community was bigger to see more reactions and to have an accurate up to date list of anomalies. The weekly challenges are fun twists and can be a slight relief to the stress the original gamemodes give me.3 found this helpful
Beautiful graphics, the aquarium was a nice touch. Good jumpscares and weird areas to find. Has 3 modes depending on your preferred skill level. Overall a great anomaly game.2 found this helpful
I am a BIG fan of horror anomaly games. But picky at the same time. Most of the time its always the same. But then there are a few that can do it right. The fact that its always bright light setting also makes it stand out to me. It doesn't always have to be a horror like setting for it to work. This was really well done. and i plan on going through it again and seeing what others i have yet to experience. great game!1 found this helpful
I had a good time with this one and so far one of my favourite anomaly games. The anomalies were creative and I liked how the game kept making me question whether something had actually changed or if I was just going crazy. The difficulty curve was also decent. Normal mode felt like a good introduction, while Nightmare mode made things much more tense and changes harder to spot. It gave me a good reason to keep playing and pay attention to every little detail. Also, huge bonus points for the aquarium. I am a big fan. As a SharkGirl, I fully approve. 🦈 Overall, The Stairwell is a fun, atmospheric, and enjoyable anomaly game. Definitely worth checking out if you like games like this! [spoiler] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJBLUhHXzk [/spoiler] starts at 1:30:00 yurifinya ♡1 found this helpful
Very fun anomaly hunting game. At normal mode, it was just the right amount of spooky, interesting, while keeping me guessing. You can tell love went into the design.
