Getting started

First night until 6:00 AM

Run the first night from the parent's 6:00 AM deadline: learn the door, the laptop, and the four-chore board before you answer anyone.

First night until 6:00 AM

Run the first night from the parent's 6:00 AM deadline: learn the door, the laptop, and the four-chore board before you answer anyone.

The parent leaves until 6:00 AM and leaves chores on the board. The night dialogue tells you to look through the front-door glass, use the laptop cameras, listen, help people who actually need help, and turn the porch light off when something looks or sounds wrong.

Before the first knock

  1. Find the front door and the porch-light switch on its right.
  2. Find the laptop in the front room. Guides place it on the coffee table.
  3. Walk the rooms you will need: parents' bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, backyard camera view, and the camera that watches the car.
  4. Read the chore board. It shows four tasks. Finishing that set refreshes the board.
  5. Note the allowance number on the board. Published guides do not agree on a single target.

The loop

Work a nearby chore while the house is quiet. Stop as soon as someone knocks. Run that visitor's check from the visitor tells page, then either open the door or kill the porch light. Go back to the board only after the doorway is clear.

Correct help and finished chores both feed the allowance. A wrong door call costs Sanity. Guides also report that a wrong refusal can cost Sanity, and one specific refusal destroys the car camera. Sanity is reported to start at 100. At 0 the night ends.

What this page does not cover

Update 8 added a second night, and Updates 5 through 11 added visitors whose individual tells are not in the July and August check lists. Use visitors after Update 5 for those names, and do not treat an early walkthrough as a complete roster.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What should I do when someone knocks?

Look through the front-door glass, listen to the whole request, then check the laptop cameras, including night vision when the tell needs it. Open only when the check matches a safe visitor. If the sign of an anomaly is there, turn the porch light off with the switch to the right of the door.

Is every visitor both real and an anomaly?

Most early visitors have a reported safe form and an anomalous form. The Vampire has no documented safe form, so the repeated instruction is to refuse him. The Next Door Neighbour is reported the other way: refusing her makes her smash the camera that watches the car.

How much allowance do I need?

Read the living-room board in the current night. A July 25, 2026 guide reported a $180 target, while late-July and early-August guides reported $160. The parent dialogue only says to earn the allowance before 6 AM. Do not memorize one number across updates.

Does the Goblin Stalker end the night?

No. The small pale goblin is a house jumpscare, not a door visitor. Guides say it cannot harm you or drain Sanity during a normal night. It does appear in the zero-Sanity ending montage.

Are there working codes?

No code string was found, and none of the captured developer notes through Update 11 lists a redeem box. Whether a code button exists at all is still unconfirmed.