Exit 8 Director Genki Kawamura Discusses Adapting The Game, Narrative Inspirations, And Advice From Shigeru Miyamoto

In November 2023, developer Kotake Create lured unsuspecting players into its unassuming but deeply unsettling horror game, The Exit 8. The first-person game traps players in a realistically rendered looping hallway of an empty Japanese subway station, and tasks them with studying their sparse surroundings to spot visual discrepancies, called "anomalies". Correctly identifying anomalies, which can be easy to miss, like an overhead sign reading Turn back turn back turn back, or more blat...