5 Night at Green Head Monster

5 Night at Green Head Monster is built around a small, badly lit hotel and the thing that runs it. You arrive for what looks like an ordinary overnight stay, and the 3D first person view keeps you at eye level in corridors too narrow to see far down.

The structure is five nights, and that matters more than any single scare. What you learn early about the layout, which door is where and which stretch of hallway has no light, is the same knowledge that makes the later nights harder to sit through. The Green Head Monster does not have to be on screen for a room to feel occupied, and a lot of the game is spent listening rather than looking.

How to play

You are staying the night in the hotel, and the goal is to reach morning, five times over. Move through the rooms and corridors in first person, look around to learn where everything is while it is still quiet, and pay attention to what you hear. Sound tends to tell you something has changed before the picture does. Survive a night and the next one begins, in the same building you now know in the dark.

Controls

The setup is the standard first person one. On a computer you look with the mouse, turning the view to search a room or line up on a doorway, and use it to interact with whatever you are facing. On a phone or tablet, an on-screen joystick takes over instead. Anyone who has played a first person game before will not need this explained twice.