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Hospital: Survive the Night is a survival game about protecting a security room from frantic patients inside a clinic. You play a pacifist guard with no weapons, relying instead on a flashlight, surveillance cameras, doors, and alarms to make it through five evenings. Staying alert and using the available systems carefully are essential: if an enemy reaches you, the level restarts.
How Hospital: Survive the Night works
Each shift puts you in the security room while patients try to reach you. The room’s surveillance system gives you a view of the surrounding areas, and you can use the controls to manage doors and activate alarms. Your aim is to stop patients from entering by closing doors in their path and distracting them whenever possible.
Since the protagonist does not fight, timing and observation matter more than confrontation. Check the camera views regularly, pay attention to approaching patients, and respond before they reach the security room. Use the flashlight when you need it, and consider how each available tool can help you get through the shift.
Survival tips for each shift
- Keep checking the cameras: They serve as your eyes once survival mode begins, so use them to monitor the clinic.
- Manage doors with care: Close a door when a patient is on the way to block access to the security room.
- Use alarms to divert attention: The game lets you use alarms as another way to redirect patients. Keep track of what is happening before choosing when to activate one.
- Stay focused on the objective: Reaching the end of the shift safely is the priority; an enemy entering the room restarts the level.
Explore the clinic and uncover its story
Between chapters, you can investigate the hospital and look for details about its past. Notes, medical records, reports, and unsent letters are scattered throughout the building. Reading these documents can help explain the clinic’s mysteries and reveal information that authorities intended to hide.
Exploration offers a change of pace from the security-room sections, but the building rewards careful attention. Look through accessible areas and use your ingenuity to reach rooms. Finding documents and other clues can add context to the events that unfold during the five shifts.
Walkie-talkie and controls
Picking up the walkie-talkie starts survival mode. At that point, the security room is sealed until seven in the morning, and you rely on the cameras to watch what is happening. Before taking the walkie-talkie, make use of the opportunity to investigate the clinic and gather clues.
- WASD: Walk
- Shift + W: Run
- RMB: Use the flashlight
- LMB: Perform an action
- ESC: Pause
For a smoother start, learn the movement and action controls before beginning a shift, then keep the camera and door systems in mind as you respond to threats. Hospital: Survive the Night combines tense room-defense gameplay with exploration and a mystery told through the clinic’s scattered records.
