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The Exit 8

KOTAKE CREATE · PLAYISM · 2023-11-29

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AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Nov 29, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 17, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 08, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Aug 08, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Jan 09, 2025 (Xbox Series X|S), Mar 28, 2025 (iOS)

You are trapped in an endless underground passageway. Observe your surroundings carefully to reach "The Exit 8".

The Exit 8 is an Adventure, Indie, and Simulation game released in 2023, priced at $3.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (93% of 11,574 reviews).

24
playing now
93%
positive of 12k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
4,212
twitch viewers (latest)
4212.0
viewers/channel (concentration)
93/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (75 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (34 downloads)
4.13★
PlayStation Store rating (11,213 ratings)
2h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 2.8h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$3.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

The Exit 8, sometimes shortened to Exit 8, is a 2023 indie adventure game developed and published by Kotake Create, also known as Kotakenotokeke. Billed as a walking simulator, the game revolves around the player walking through a Japanese metro station passageway, trying to spot inaccuracies, referred to as anomalies, in the layout of the passageway to reach the exit of the station. The game was initially released on Steam on 29 November 2023 and was subsequently ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in 2024, and on Xbox Series X/S, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 under the Japanese indie publisher Playism. A virtual reality version co-developed and published by MyDearest Inc., dubbed The Exit 8 VR, released on 11 July 2024 for the Meta Quest 2, Pro and 3 and later made available on Steam and the Quest 3S.

Trailer

The Exit 8 trailer thumbnail

THE EXIT 8 Official Trailer (2026)

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 24 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,764 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~221/week).
  • · Review velocity up 16% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 3% of 29,063 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 231k–521k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 11,574 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$3.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.79 at Steam (2025-08-28) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $3.99 · on sale 12 of 22 observed days · $1.20 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.8k2.8k20232026Week of 2023-11-01: 460 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 2,826 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 188 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 786 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 510 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 495 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 205 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 299 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 208 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 201 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 349 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

79192026-09-15 13:00 — 54 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 36 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 30 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 79 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 49 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 22 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 32 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 26 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 39 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 42 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 22 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 23 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 25 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 57 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 54 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 25 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 30 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 19 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 24 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 56 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 20 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 30 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 27 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
65731Dec 2023Aug 2026Dec 2023 — avg 657 · peak 2,785Jan 2024 — avg 234 · peak 667Feb 2024 — avg 188 · peak 466Mar 2024 — avg 132 · peak 265Apr 2024 — avg 86 · peak 188May 2024 — avg 57 · peak 155Jun 2024 — avg 74 · peak 189Jul 2024 — avg 65 · peak 158Aug 2024 — avg 45 · peak 99Sep 2024 — avg 32 · peak 69Oct 2024 — avg 32 · peak 71Nov 2024 — avg 33 · peak 83Dec 2024 — avg 39 · peak 117Jan 2025 — avg 42 · peak 103Feb 2025 — avg 49 · peak 169Mar 2025 — avg 31 · peak 101Apr 2025 — avg 32 · peak 81May 2025 — avg 35 · peak 78Jun 2025 — avg 37 · peak 72Jul 2025 — avg 34 · peak 70Aug 2025 — avg 65 · peak 472Sep 2025 — avg 158 · peak 609Oct 2025 — avg 62 · peak 189Nov 2025 — avg 49 · peak 173Dec 2025 — avg 45 · peak 100Jan 2026 — avg 42 · peak 105Feb 2026 — avg 53 · peak 109Mar 2026 — avg 41 · peak 88Apr 2026 — avg 71 · peak 169May 2026 — avg 50 · peak 97Jun 2026 — avg 46 · peak 102Jul 2026 — avg 47 · peak 101Aug 2026 — avg 38 · peak 119
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$3.99$2.792023-11-292026-10-152023-11-29 — best price $3.592024-03-14 — best price $3.592024-06-27 — best price $3.192024-10-28 — best price $3.192024-11-27 — best price $3.192024-12-19 — best price $3.192025-02-02 — best price $3.192025-03-17 — best price $3.192025-05-21 — best price $3.192025-06-27 — best price $3.192025-08-28 — best price $2.792025-10-27 — best price $2.792025-12-04 — best price $2.792026-01-17 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-04-09 — best price $2.792026-06-25 — best price $2.792026-07-23 — best price $2.792026-08-27 — best price $3.992026-09-10 — best price $2.792026-09-24 — best price $2.792026-10-08 — best price $2.792026-10-15 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.2k4172026-05-30 — 2,221 pageviews2026-06-03 — 1,231 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1,522 pageviews2026-06-11 — 985 pageviews2026-06-15 — 967 pageviews2026-06-19 — 864 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1,196 pageviews2026-06-27 — 782 pageviews2026-07-01 — 839 pageviews2026-07-05 — 981 pageviews2026-07-09 — 632 pageviews2026-07-13 — 822 pageviews2026-07-17 — 783 pageviews2026-07-21 — 1,008 pageviews2026-07-25 — 853 pageviews2026-07-29 — 623 pageviews2026-08-02 — 1,000 pageviews2026-08-06 — 579 pageviews2026-08-10 — 599 pageviews2026-08-14 — 644 pageviews2026-08-18 — 616 pageviews2026-08-22 — 642 pageviews2026-08-26 — 531 pageviews2026-08-30 — 763 pageviews2026-09-03 — 550 pageviews2026-09-07 — 820 pageviews2026-09-11 — 506 pageviews2026-09-15 — 509 pageviews2026-09-19 — 574 pageviews2026-09-23 — 472 pageviews2026-09-27 — 777 pageviews2026-10-01 — 469 pageviews2026-10-05 — 686 pageviews2026-10-08 — 559 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

2
achievements tracked
74.1%
earned "The Exit 8"
46.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)15,25576%4
Steam (Steam)7,06978%2
PS4 (PlayStation)4,13786%4
Xbox Series (Xbox)1,75955%10
Switch (Nintendo)3560%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DFunnyHorrorLinearPuzzleSurrealRealisticSimulationAtmosphericExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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