Decision
The experience ends its pitch on a choice: wait for rescue, or risk everything for a way out. The lines before that question are the work you can do while you decide. They name rooftop shelters, escape plans, new routes, neighbors, and secrets. They do not name a marked exit, a rescue vehicle, or a day when help arrives.
Waiting for rescue keeps you in the building. Help your neighbors, keep the apartment shut, and stay quiet as zombies fill the hallways. The clock printed beside that work is 100 days. Scavenge food, store water, and barricade your apartment are still the opening jobs while you wait. Staying is the decision to keep playing the apartment.
The hallway shot is that wait. One survivor stands against the wall while zombies come closer. If you choose rescue, this corridor is still the space you manage until the 100 days are done.
The other answer is a way out. Build rooftop shelters, craft escape plans, and discover new routes. Uncover secrets, then choose your escape. Those actions sit on the risk side of the question, next to risking everything. Rooftop shelters are the only place named above the apartment. Escape plans and new routes are things you craft and discover. They are not a published map.
Secrets are named, and so is the choice. The way out is a set of actions you take in the building, not a guaranteed ending. Neighbors stay in the text on this side too: you can help them while you look for another route. The question comes last, after the work, so the decision is what you do with those lines.
Six instructions are actually written. Read them as jobs, not as a solved route.
| Job | Action |
|---|---|
| Rooftop shelters | Build them |
| Escape plans | Craft them |
| New routes | Discover them |
| Neighbors | Help them |
| Secrets | Uncover them |
| Choice | Rescue or a way out |
Rescue and a way out are two lines in one description, on the root place, in a public server of 30. You cannot rent a private server to test the rooftop alone. A team written into the description still stops at three friends while the server holds thirty, so most people in the building are not your party. No badge is given for waiting, for leaving, or for day 100. 30 Floors Up - Main Game is a second place with an empty description, and it does not name an exit.
If the hallway closes in while you look for a route, Shove is a separate purchase. It knocks a player or zombie aside for 1.5 seconds, waits 10 seconds before the next shove, deals no damage, and will not fire during a cutscene, a conversation, while you are seated, lying down, or leaning over a ledge. Locksmith starts a run with a screwdriver and nine bobby pins. Neither line is written into the escape question. They are catalog passes, not a published exit. The games catalog listed 1,584,477 visits and 5,605 players, with 2,453 votes up and 1,205 down. Those numbers describe the public server, not a solved route.
| Item | In the description |
|---|---|
| Marked exit | Not named |
| Rescue vehicle | Not named |
| Day help arrives | Not named |
| Rooftop | Named as a place to build shelters |
| Routes | Named as something you discover |
| Neighbors | Named as people you can help |
| Secrets | Named as something you uncover |
| 100 days | Named beside the wait |
| VIP server | Not offered |
| Copying | Turned off |
