Halt in DOORS

He follows the same pattern. First he slowly walks behind you, then teleports in front of you—and keeps repeating this until you reach the end of the room. Each round gets faster for both of you.

1. As soon as you enter, head forward. The entrance behind you is closed. 2. See TURN AROUND? Change direction. You don't have to turn your whole body—just walk backward. It's faster. 3. Don't stand still. The longer you're in the room, the louder and faster his background sound gets. 4. Reach the exit door and open it. After that, his attack won't deal damage.

I get through it by walking backward: I watch Halt while he's behind me, then back up when he appears in front. That way, I don't have to spin the camera, and I find the door naturally. And don't try to go back—once you leave the room, you can't get back in.

Halt appears in The Hotel and The Mines. In The Hotel, his home is The Dining Hall; in The Mines, it's The Bridges. The Bridges has three sections with three bridges in each.

He's a rare encounter. After The Hotel+ Update, his spawn chance dropped to 0.1–0.5%, and you're no longer guaranteed to meet him at least once per run. He can show up as early as door 1, or as late as doors 90–92 in The Hotel. In The Mines, he can appear starting at door 103.

The most likely window is between your second Seek chase and The Greenhouse. In The Mines, The Bridges most often appears before the first Seek chase. Sometimes Halt doesn't show up at all during a run.

The Crucifix banishes Halt. After that, you'll soon be taken out of the room automatically—except in The Bridges. If you still have trouble with Halt's hallway, using a Crucifix here is nothing to be ashamed of: it's specifically recommended for players who struggle with this entity. Hold it in your hand and wait for Halt to approach to earn the Two Steps Ahead badge. I used the Crucifix for my first few encounters, then learned how to beat him and started saving it for other things.

In HOTEL-, Halt appears rarely, and his attacks are a little easier to avoid. But there are two warning signs: the lights flicker for a long time before he appears, and you hear an echo after every whisper.

Halt and his room aren't in BATTLE Mode. He doesn't appear in the Retro Mode either—possibly because of the time limit unconfirmed. The My Legs Are Killing Me Modifier slows Halt down to match a slower player. With the Look, Man Modifier, Lookman can appear in his room.

• Wasting time turning the camera around. You can walk backward, and it's faster.
• Standing still to think. He catches up, and the hallway doesn't get any shorter.
• Waiting for the lights to flicker in the regular Hotel. Before The Mines Update, the lights flickered before Halt. Now, a long flicker is a sign of HOTEL- in older versions.
• Hoping the Moonlight Candle goes out. It doesn't seem to go out when Halt appears, and it's unclear whether that's a bug or intentional unconfirmed.
• Entering Halt's room with Rush on your tail. If Rush opens the door to Halt's room, you're usually teleported there, and Rush kills you immediately.

His name says it all: Halt stops you and won't let you move forward. He was originally called Shade, and that's still his name in the game files. LSPLASH didn't specify the gender of most entities, including Halt, though El Goblino calls him "he".

According to El Goblino, Halt guards the food in The Dining Hall unconfirmed. During the 2024 April Fools event, Halt said an unknown entity creates the TURN AROUND screen, possibly Moonlight unconfirmed. Both ideas are theories that the developers haven't confirmed.