{"id":29361,"date":"2024-04-04T17:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=29361"},"modified":"2024-04-04T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:49:00","slug":"keep-calm-escape-dodgy-elevator-cursed-exit-8-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/keep-calm-escape-dodgy-elevator-cursed-exit-8-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep calm and escape a dodgy elevator in this cursed Exit 8-like\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, indie developer Half\/Phai released their own take on The Exit 8 genre with <strong>0<sup>th<\/sup> Floor -The cursed elevator to Floor 0-<\/strong>. The creepy title has you escaping from a malfunctioning elevator, while looking out for anomalies on each floor and avoiding attacks. The game is playable in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com\/steam\/apps\/257011669\/movie_max_vp9.webm?t=1711578279\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kotake Create\u2019s The Exit 8, released on Steam last November, was such a breakout hit that it has since inspired many developers to make their own games based on the unnerving anomaly-spotting walking sim. These have ranged from <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240129-26283\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outright copycats (The Exit 9)<\/a> to games that try to put their own spin on the combination of anomaly-spotting gameplay, creepy liminal spaces and numbered places (see <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/chillas-arts-new-horror-game-shinkansen-0-coming-to-steam-on-march-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shinkansen 0<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/escape-exit-8-like-looping-train-platform-free-to-play-japanese-browser-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Track no. 9<\/a>, and many more). As a side note, Kotake Create recently announced an official sequel to the game that has launched this emerging subgenre (<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/the-exit-8-official-sequel-announced-platform-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Related Article<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-header.jpg\" alt=\"zero 0th floor Exit 8 like horror puzzle game\" class=\"wp-image-29368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-header.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-header-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-header-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-header-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now back to 0<sup>th<\/sup> Floor. As its full title suggests, the game is set inside an elevator that has a weird malfunction that causes it to go to floor 0. To prevent this from happening and successfully make your escape via the 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor, you must travel to different levels of the building in the exact order listed on a notice inside the dodgy elevator.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press the number for the next floor in the sequence and then wait for the elevator doors to open. If you have arrived on the correct floor, you can breathe a sigh of relief and wait for the doors to close automatically. However, if you see something strange on the floor that you arrived on, you must quickly close the doors yourself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-003.jpg\" alt=\"zero 0th floor Exit 8 like horror puzzle game\" class=\"wp-image-29370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-003.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-003-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-003-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-003-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sounds simple enough right? However, you may be unlucky enough to find yourself on a floor where the room is illuminated in red. Even if your first instinct is to close the doors and move safely to another floor, you must instead wait until you are in grave danger and then shut the door. Therefore, 0<sup>th<\/sup> Floor requires the player to keep a cool head. You must remember the sequence of floors, be observant and not panic when you are about to be attacked by \u201cIt!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"http:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-001.jpg\" alt=\"zero 0th floor Exit 8 like horror puzzle game\" class=\"wp-image-29369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-001.jpg 900w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240404-29361-001-600x337.jpg 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like The Exit 8, 0<sup>th<\/sup> Floor also seems to be set in Japan, with your elevator moving between various businesses and locations, including a subway station platform, an underground carpark, a store and some restaurant kitchens. The elevator floor announcements are also spoken in Japanese. According to the game\u2019s Steam page, a single playthrough will last around 10 to 60 minutes, but it will take completionists 3 to 6 hours to find all the game\u2019s anomalies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0<sup>th<\/sup> Floor was released on April 4 for PC (<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2885400\/0th_floor__The_cursed_elevator_to_floor_zero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Steam<\/a>). It is available at a 15% discount until April 18, 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Exit 8 inspired horror puzzle game 0th Floor requires you to keep a cool head as you try to escape a cursed elevator and an attacker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":29372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-29361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie-games","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Keep calm and escape a dodgy elevator in this cursed Exit 8-like\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Exit 8 inspired horror puzzle game 0th Floor requires you to keep a cool head as you try to escape a cursed elevator and an attacker.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/keep-calm-escape-dodgy-elevator-cursed-exit-8-like\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep calm and escape a dodgy elevator in this cursed Exit 8-like\u00a0 - 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