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The Golden Retreat

You work in a hotel and your shift is over but instead of heading home, you find yourself trapped in an endless loop. Your only chance to escape is to identify paranormal anomalies, choose the correct elevator to escape - and don't let him catch you!

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PR Digital Art
Publisher
PR Digital Art
Release
May 20, 2025
1 year and 74 days ago
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Positive15 reviews100.0%

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About the Game

Plot

In this atmospheric anomaly game you jump into the role of a bartender working in an art deco style hotel. After your shift has ended you try to use the elevator, leave the building and head home. Unfortunately this does not seem to be easy because you find yourself in an endless loop and end up returning to the 9th floor. To reach a lower floor you need to identify paranormal anomalies and use the correct elevator to descend. Are you able to escape this horrible night shift or will something happen to you?

The Golden Retreat is basically a psychological horror walking simulator where you have to identify anomalies to proceed. Although you can interact with some objects, it's not necessary to find things that have changed.

Play Time

30-90 minutes, somewhat depending on the random anomalies the game gives you.

Difficulty

The game can be very hard if you haven't played anomaly games before. Anomalies can be small details as well as things that are easy to spot. Anomalies get harder the further you progress towards lobby.

Features

As you progress you discover more and more anomalies that fill up your collection. The game auto-saves the current floor, mistakes, spoken monologues and your seen anomalies. There is also a second ending. Besides that there are several settings to adjust so the game can run even on older systems.

Encounter Anomalies

You will encounter several anomalies. Some are just small changes like an object is rotated, others are more noticable and some might even try to kill you?

Anomaly Collection

To check which anomalies you already have seen, there is a collection to get an overview. Are you willing to find them all? Note - This can be grindy because anomalies spawn randomly but not every anomaly can spawn on every floor.

Available Options

  • Overall Graphics

  • VSync

  • Window Mode

  • Resolution

  • Resolution Scale

  • View Sensitivity

  • Reduce Headbobbing

  • Depth of Field

  • Master Volume

  • Brightness

Keyboard

Move - WASD

Interact - LMB/E

Run - Shift

Crouch - CTRL

Menu - ESC

(Flashlight - F)

Controller

Move - Left Stick

Interact - A

Run - Right Trigger

Crouch - Left Trigger

Menu - Start

(Flashlight - X)

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