A new horror game set on a sterile, liminal, and infinite subway train has attracted some positive buzz on its launch weekend. Platform 8 is a horror walking simulator that has you on an infinitely repeating, psychologically oppressive train where your only company are some ments and a guy looking at his phone.
Platform 8 is a sequel of sorts to The Exit 8, a psychological horror game about finding your way through an endless, tiled subway exit tunnel. The developer says you'll enjoy Platform 8 more if you played The Exit 8. The Exit 8 was released last year, in November of 2023, and quite well-received by people who played it—93% positive out of about 5,800 reviews.
Platform 8 is available on Steam in both English and Japanese. It takes "15-60" minutes to beat, depending on how quickly you catch on to the tricks, and costs $4.
Short horror games inspired by liminal spaces have been taking off on Steam in the last few years, with semi-shared world space the backrooms getting a lot of attention. Here's cracked the origin of the most famous backrooms image just this week.)
Developer Kotake Create is also working on a larger horror game project to release in 2025: Strange Shadow. There's not much on it now, but the trailer shows a character in heavy environmental protective gear running around a dark, ruined city and seemingly pursued by a massive humanoid figure intent on crushing them.
