Over 30,000 copies of “Exit 8” were sold on the first day. The new horror game RTA on Steam was launched. Office workers were in a hurry to find the exit at 1:33 | 4Gamers

2023-12-01 08:42:25

“Exit 8” (Exit 8), developed by the Japanese game developer “KOTAKE CREATE”, has been widely praised since its release on Steam at the end of November. Now even the SpeedRun speed challenge has begun to play in the player community It’s going on… Judging from the level-breaking mechanism of this game, it’s actually very interesting.

“Exit 8” is a walking simulation game. The player is in a fictional underground tunnel in Japan. The purpose is to find the way to Exit 8, but you will always be trapped in the same infinite passage corridor and have to escape. You must find out the “vision” of each passage.

According to Japanese media Automaton Developer KOTAKE confirmed that “Exit 8” sold more than 30,000 units on Steam on the first day after the game was released, which is quite rare for an independent game developer’s first work.

One day earlier than planned,
「#8Exit” was released.

Don’t overlook any changes
If you notice anything unusual, return immediately.
If you don’t find anything unusual, don’t turn back.
Go out from Exit 8

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— Kotake Notokeke (@NOTOKEKE) November 29, 2023

Although the gameplay is simple, the strange phenomena in the passage are changeable, and the psychological effect of suspicion and ghosts makes “Exit 8” without Jump Scare have a deeper level of horror that is closer to reality.

As “Exit 8” has become a best-selling work on Steam, players are now also launching SpeedRun racing challenges, and the RTA clearance time of some players has reached 1 minute and 33 seconds.

In fact, the biggest difficulty in “Exit 8” is to identify the “anomalies” in the infinite corridor, because the anomalies appear randomly, and some are even difficult to detect. Therefore, it not only tests luck, but also tests the player’s ability to find out in a short time. Vision and turn back.

As for how to be able to tell within 1 second that there is a problem with this channel and turn back immediately, it seems to be the most unsolvable part of the entire RTA challenge.

Similarly, this game quickly became a topic in the Japanese live broadcast circle and VTuber after trying it out, and its popularity can be seen as average.

The Steam 3D horror simulation sketch game “Exit 8” has been released on Steam, with a standard price of 82 yuan. Friends who are interested but dare not play can refer to the review report of this site.

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