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The Guests are the primary antagonists of the game. They appear as nightmarish paranormal entities. It is unknown if they are real or created through the protagonists incessant madness. The Guests gradually increase in regularity as the game progresses, the regularity of encounters increasing with each level where you do NOT find the Invisible Child. There are two types of Guests in Knock-Knock: the Hiding Guests and the Seeking Guests.
Hiding Guests[]
Hiding Guests are guests which remain still. The Hiding Guests all share the common attribute of looking like they've come out of the forest, are all stationary, and do not need a breach to appear. Instead, they can appear (always behind you) in any darkened room, blocking your access to parts of the house. They will disappear after waiting for a short while, as long as you aren't facing them in the same room. You can look at them without a time penalty, though there will still be a warning noise. A moan may also signal their arrival, though you may not always hear one. Walking through them in the dark will set your time back, though not nearly as much as the Seeking Guests will. Turning on the light with one in the room, however, will break the light you just fixed, set your time back further, and teleport you to another room.
Hiding Guests[]
Box Head Guest
Other Hiding Guests
- A standing clump of leaves with legs, and/or a pile of leaves with a face similar to the lodger's face sticking out of it. Both are more difficult to notice, since their darker texture blends in with the shadows; making them more of a threat when the lights are fixed by the player.
- A spider-like entity with the head resembling the Lodger's.
Seeking Guests[]
Seeking guests are guests with the ability to move through the house. They will actively patrol floors searching for the player, making them much more dangerous than hiding guests. All of the Seeking Guests appear from Breaches. If you start hearing voices, it means a Seeking Guest is in the house. Most of them can only move horizontally, with a few exceptions. They are not visible in the light, however, that doesn't mean they aren't there. If you are in a lit room and a Seeking Guest enters it, the light will break, and the Guest will become visible again. If you are not in the room, the Guest will simply pass through the lit room invisibly, making them harder to keep track of. If a Seeking Guest touches you, the clock is drastically set back, making avoiding them a top priority, and at later levels, a single Seeking Guest may be enough to force you to restart the level. If you successfully hide from a Seeking Guest, it will either continue moving throughout the house or de-spawn, however, keep in mind another can spawn again if the breach isn't closed.
Guests cannot be seen when the view is fully zoomed out. You can see guests as long as you are only zoomed out by one degree, and they become transparent at two degrees. Anything more and they're fully invisible. Note they are always invisible in lit rooms. However if they enter a lit room you are in, the light will break.
As long as guests are in your home, you will hear voices. Mostly these are subtle indications of what the Guests are doing. Lines like "You thought about it, and now they're inside" indicates a Guest has spawned. Lines like "I see you." indicate a Guest is on the same floor and is approaching you. Some lines are uttered as the Guests patrol.
Seeking Guest 1[]
Seeking Guest 2[]
Seeking Guest 3[]
Gallery). Extremely rare, appears only in the second part of the game. Travels by jumping, very fast, easily gets the Lodger even in the lit room. Can change floors via ladders. Can't go through closed doors and behaves specially when he encounters one: it jumps back and if there is a downstairs ladder behind it then this guests goes on a lower floor.
It seemingly unrelentingly chases down the lodger and is distinguished through sound by the strange noises of its footsteps - which sound most like wet creaking bones.
Other Seeking Guests
- A bed that seems to be pushing itself. This isn't as much of a threat as the previous two, since it doesn't seek you when hidden and it moves at the same speed as the player, making it more easy to avoid. However, it will change directions to chase you while on the same floor. It is incredibly noisy and produces constant squeaking noises which unfortunately do not indicate direction or proximity.
- A pack of floating candles. The special thing about this guest is that candles are not lit until the Lodger is on the floor with the candles. Thus, you can run right into them while going up/down the ladder. The speed of the candles is pretty low and the player can even walk away from them in the dark. This Guest has a unique manly voice and has strange lines. Listed as "Winter" on the audio page/
- A neutral doppelganger. Looks exactly like the Lodger, only is a little transparent. Walks around the house without doing anything at all. Sometimes stops below a lightbulb, pretending that he is fixing it. If the player walked past this guest then after a while the playable character has a chance to vanish in the air and in this case the camera will go to the doppelganger, making him the playable character. The candle of a neutral doppelganger is not lit. Has a high pitched voice and only speak when bumping into the player.
- An evil doppelganger. Looks like a neutral one but he intentionally follows the character. When it reaches one, the time is decreased on 6 hours. The candle of an evil doppelganger is lit so you can see him walking around the house.
- An invisible entity. Not seen but leaves handprints on walls and makes constant squishing sounds. Does not follow the character if he is on the floor with it. Teleports between floors upon reaching a wall. Seems to prefer teleporting to the floor the player is on, which is dangerous if the floor has one room. Does not appear in some versions.
The Guests will spawn on floors with holes on them with 100% chance. These can be found when the screen zooms into an apparently empty room, before returning to the usual UI. These holes are the spawn indicators for the Guests: floors with holes on them will have at least one Guest patrolling/ blocking that floor and at least one Guest on another floor. When you enter a room with a hole in it, a large eyeball will be seen staring at you through a large hole in the wall. If a light was previously on in that room, it will go out once the hole opens. Fixing the light in that room will close the hole, but will set some of your time back (however most of the time it is a necessary sacrifice to keep more Guests from spawning on that floor).
If a Seeking Guest manages to corner you in a dead end room, or if you want to get one to stop following you, it is sometimes possible to hide. A few hiding places include beds, drawers, phonograph machines etc. If you are hiding and a Seeking Guest enters the room you are hiding in, the screen will become black with a green hole in the center. The hole will constantly shift around the room, indicating where the Guest is looking. If you are found, you will suffer the time penalty of touching one, but if you are not found, the patroller that you hid from will either go on his way or despawn from the house, making hiding kind of a roll of the dice. The longer the room is, the more time the patroller has to find you; so if possible, hide in short rooms. Also, you will automatically turn off the light in the room you are hiding in, however it is only temporary and when the hiding is done, the light will not require replacing.
Trivia[]
- Guest types you are encountering on 'Eye' levels do not determine the ending you are going to get.
- Hiding Guests do not speak, likely because they are hiding. They do groan occasionally.
-You may also encounter hiding guests in the endless hallway once the Giant Monster appears. They block your path and raise your insanity. Since you can't move up or down you have to avoid them going through doors.
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