Shift 2 and later. Appears on the ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk. Announced by a "Don't look up" on-screen message and a shift in the room's lighting.
| Where you meet it | Shift 2 and later. Appears on the ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk. Announced by a "Don't look up" on-screen message and a shift in the room's lighting. |
|---|---|
| Damage | −2 to −5 sanity per 0.5 seconds for as long as you keep looking up at it. |
| How to counter it | The simplest counter in the game: don't look up. Alternatively, hop onto the window ledge and hand it Eyedrops to pacify it directly. |
This is the one monster where the "correct play" is literally just not engaging — the warning message tells you exactly what not to do, and following that instruction costs you nothing. The Eyedrops pacify option exists for situations where you need to work in that room and can't just avoid looking up indefinitely.
The raw figure is −2 to −5 every 0.5s while you look up. What matters is what that is a fraction of: with no class bought you start a shift on 61 sanity, and reaching zero puts you down — a teammate can revive you with a $1,000 Teddy Bear, but you cannot use one on yourself.
Worth knowing before you spend a shift carrying the wrong thing: a weapon is the answer to only 3 of the 10 threats in this game. The Mass of Eyes is answered by one item:
Optional — not looking up costs nothing and works just as well.
The nine threats split into three planning problems. The Mass of Eyes is in the group gated by shift number — it will not appear until a specific shift, so early runs are simply free of it — and once you are past its window it stops being a concern.
The others in that bracket are the Head Banger. Grouping them this way is more useful than a flat list, because a threat you can wait out, a threat you set off yourself and a threat that can arrive unannounced each call for a different habit — and only the last one justifies carrying gear all shift.
Every threat in the game, so you can see which ones share a counter with this one and which demand something completely different.
| Threat | Where | What it costs | Counter |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🎭 Mimic | Disguised as a patient — check-in, treatment or recovery | −15 initial, then −6 per 0.5s | 1 gun round or a taser |
| 🚪 Head Banger | Shifts 2–5, at the side check-in window | −20 sanity jumpscare if shooed without coffee | Hand it a coffee (sip twice first for +10 net) |
| 🛏️ Bed Monster | Under patient beds in Rooms 1–5 and Room 7 | −10 on the grab, then −5 every 2s | Feed it Maple Syrup, an Organ or a Transplant; stay off the red floor |
| 👤 Stalker | Hallway corners, the lobby and the surgery room | −10 sanity on eye contact | Cannot be killed — look at its legs, not its face |
| 🫥 Hiders | Camouflaged as wallpaper, in groups of 1–6 | Steals your held item and stuns you | Fire extinguisher, taser or gun |
| 👻 Ghost | Spawns after a patient dies, roams the whole hospital | −2 sanity per second nearby | Fire extinguisher to force it visible, then taser or gun |
| 👀 Mass of Eyes ← this page | Ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk, Shift 2+ | −2 to −5 sanity per 0.5s while you look up | Don't look up — or hand it Eyedrops from the window ledge |
| 📹 Camera Monster | 50% chance on a broken CCTV feed | −20 sanity jumpscare if you zoom in | Switch feeds or close the camera; repair cameras in advance |
| 🧬 Tentacle | Random 'Monster emerging' event after surgery in Room 8 | Kills the patient outright on a mistake or timeout | Scissors → Transplant → Scissors → Transplant, then 3 random steps |
| 🟢 Slimebert | Slime Shift — from around Shift 10 onward | −20 sanity on catch, then −3/s while digested | Fire extinguisher stuns; Cough Syrup blocks; no taser/gun |
One class starts you holding the item this threat responds to, which removes the scramble to find one mid-shift:
at level 3 begins each round with the backpack already full of supplies, which is how you have the consumable before you need it.
One to avoid for this specific fight: the Psychologist doubles every sanity effect in both directions. It starts you at 100% rather than 61%, but it also makes this threat cost twice what the numbers above say — a trade that only pays if you are confident you will not be touched.
−2 to −5 sanity per 0.5 seconds for as long as you keep looking up at it.
The simplest counter in the game: don't look up. Alternatively, hop onto the window ledge and hand it Eyedrops to pacify it directly.
Shift 2 and later. Appears on the ceilings of patient rooms and the front desk. Announced by a "Don't look up" on-screen message and a shift in the room's lighting.
Eyedrops. Optional — not looking up costs nothing and works just as well.
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