The Upturned

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A hotel for the dead, monsters on every floor, and a storm that wants you.

Platforms: PC
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam (99% of 2,727 reviews)
Players: 1
Made by: Zeekerss
Released: 2022

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What frightens You ride the elevator of the Upturned Inn, a hotel for the dead, through dark floors lived in by more than ten monsters, each with its own intentions: some attack outright and some approach with stranger plans. You light the way with a torch through pitch-dark rooms while a great storm on the horizon wants you, and the story with the inn's founder turns into a cosmic horror. It mixes its scares wi
Content: dark scenes, being chased.

The Upturned is a third-person horror comedy from Zeekerss, the maker of Lethal Company. You ride the elevator of the Upturned Inn, a grand hotel for the dead, through dark and strange floors full of monsters, hopping and throwing furniture to survive while a cosmic horror closes in.

About The Upturned

The Upturned is a 2022 game by Zeekerss, the developer who went on to make Lethal Company. The store calls it a frantic adventure: welcome to the Upturned Inn, a grand hotel for the dead, where you just want to find your room. Players describe it as a mix of horror and comedy in equal measure, and many say the same dark rooms that make them laugh also make them jump.

You travel up the inn by elevator, and each floor is its own place: a glass pane factory, an aquarium, an abandoned shopping mall, a wild west town. Most are dark, and you go through them with a torch in hand, a health counter in the corner and monsters somewhere ahead. There are over ten of them, big and small, and the store says each has its own personality and strategy; not all of them attack you outright.

The way you deal with them is physical. Your defining traits, as the maker puts it, are hopping and chucking furniture, and you can throw furniture at birds and birds at birds. Meanwhile Ik, the founder of the inn, talks with you between floors, and a great storm on the horizon is coming for you. What you say to Ik can mean life or death, and the story turns into a cosmic horror in which nothing is what it seems.

The Upturned suits players who liked Lethal Company or The Baby in Yellow: monsters in the dark that can be frightening, with a sense of humour that never goes away. Players who want unbroken dread should know it is often silly on purpose.

How to play The Upturned

Buy The Upturned on Steam and check in at the Upturned Inn.
Ride the elevator to each new floor and explore it with your torch.
Learn how each monster behaves before you get close; some attack and some do not.
Hop over gaps and pick up furniture and objects to throw at what threatens you.
Talk with Ik between floors, choosing your words carefully, and keep going up.

Screenshots

A creature with a huge grinning face and a red bow tie holds up a yellow object in a dim room

The traveller lights a dark corridor with a torch, health at 70

A neon-lit room of purple and blue glass where figures move in a green glow

The traveller stands on a wooden walkway in the dark under a single spotlight

A dark wild west town street at night with the traveller in the foreground

Tips

Anything loose can be thrown: furniture and even birds make good weapons.
Watch the health counter in the corner; dark rooms hide attacks from all sides, players warn.
Some monsters are not hostile at first; watch what they do before acting.
Listen to Ik; the store warns your dialogue with him may decide life or death.

Questions

Is The Upturned a horror game?

It is a horror comedy: dark floors, monsters and a cosmic horror story, told with a lot of slapstick. Players say it has real scares as well as jokes.

Who made The Upturned?

Zeekerss, the developer of Lethal Company, released it in 2022.

Is The Upturned co-op?

No, it is single-player.

What platforms is it on?

Windows PC, on Steam.