Eerie Dossier:the Haunted Apartment

Floor negative-24, one flashlight, and a room that isn't quite the same as it was a second ago. Eerie Dossier:the Haunted Apartment is a $4.99 first-person horror game from developer Gameloop and publisher 隐书大宅, released 5 March 2026. This review draws on the game's full 46-review sample.

A familiar anomaly-hunting formula

This review checked the game's own store description, which frames the loop directly: players are trapped in an "infinite loop of corridors and rooms," searching for a way out while uncovering the location's secrets. A Simplified Chinese-language reviewer described the mechanical core in more detail, explaining that players start on floor -24 and must correctly identify anomalies in each scene to advance a floor at a time, eventually reaching floor 1 to escape, with a mistake resetting progress back down. This puts the game squarely in the same "spot the anomaly" horror subgenre as its own predecessors, a lineage several reviewers in this review's sample explicitly reference.

A chase sequence reviewers agree on

Despite the Mixed overall reception, this review's sample shows unusual agreement on one specific moment: the game's climactic chase sequence. This review's sample includes reviewers writing that "the final chase is done in a really fun way" and, from a more critical Korean-language reviewer who otherwise found the anomalies repetitive, that the chase "was fairly fun" and "scary too." A completionist reviewer who finished with 66% of achievements unlocked and Ending A called the overall experience "a super cool realistic horror anomaly game full of scary haunted dolls, ghost activity and bloody floors," with "magnificent jump scares."

Returning fans see a step down

The clearest fault line in this review's sample runs between newcomers and players familiar with the developer's earlier games in the same series. Several reviewers, mostly writing in Chinese, directly and unfavorably compare this release to its predecessors. One asked bluntly, "is this really made by the same developer as the previous two games? Genuinely disappointed," while another wrote the anomaly design itself feels stale, with "no new ideas" compared to earlier entries. A Korean-language reviewer who otherwise enjoyed parts of the game specifically noted the story felt thinner "compared to previous installments." This review found this comparison recurring often enough across the negative sample to treat it as a defining criticism rather than an isolated complaint.

A specific bug report and cash-grab accusations

This review's sample includes one especially detailed negative account: a reviewer who reported that the game's second stage failed to provide a flashlight, leaving the screen effectively unreadable, and who separately lost their save file entirely, forcing a full restart from a fresh game with no way to recover prior progress. That same reviewer, after finishing anyway, called the plot severely underexplained. Several other reviewers went further, directly accusing the release of trading on the series' established name without matching effort, with one writing plainly that hunting down every anomaly felt like it existed "specifically to prevent refunds" rather than to serve the story, and another calling the whole release "pure leek-cutting," a common Chinese-language idiom for a cash grab aimed at loyal fans.

Multiple endings, unevenly reached

This review checked the Steam achievement API and confirmed the game supports three distinct endings. Ending A, evidently the most straightforward outcome, was reached by 67.2% of players, while Endings B and C each sit at just 8.7%, suggesting most players who finish the game land on the default path rather than actively working toward its alternate outcomes. That data lines up with this review's sample, where reviewers describe multiple endings as a feature worth knowing about without treating the alternate endings as the primary draw.

No accessibility features, no public developer communication

This review checked the store's accessibility feature-flag block directly and found zero of nineteen tracked flags true. This review also checked the developer's public partner-events feed directly and found zero posts of any kind, meaning no patch notes, fixes, or public acknowledgment of the flashlight or save-loss bugs reported in this review's sample have been logged through Steam's own systems as of this review's research date.

A horror game that undersells its own scares

This review's sample includes a recurring, more measured criticism from reviewers who play horror games regularly: the game simply isn't very frightening. One Simplified Chinese-language reviewer, who noted playing the earlier entries and following the series closely, wrote that the atmosphere "isn't horrifying enough" and that they had "basically no reaction" during their playthrough, while still recommending it out of goodwill toward the developer. A Korean-language reviewer echoed the specific critique that some anomalies feel arbitrarily placed, pointing to blood spots and wall markings scattered without clear internal logic as examples of anomalies that read as "cheap" rather than unsettling, even while conceding the game's climactic chase carried real tension. Set against the completionist reviewer who called the same content "full of magnificent jump scares," this review's sample suggests the horror lands inconsistently depending on how much genre experience a given player brings to it, rather than failing uniformly.

Verdict

Eerie Dossier:the Haunted Apartment delivers a functional, occasionally effective anomaly-horror loop with a chase sequence reviewers across languages single out as a genuine highlight, and three endings give it a small amount of replay value. But this review's sample makes a strong case that the game leans too heavily on a formula its own developer has already run twice before, with a specific, detailed bug report around a broken second stage and lost save data, and no public update history to suggest either issue has been addressed. At $4.99, newcomers to the series may find a short, decent horror diversion here; longtime fans, going by this review's sample, are more likely to feel shortchanged.