Games Like The Exit 8: Anomaly Horror to Play Next

The closest match is Platform 8, from the same maker, KOTAKE CREATE. Instead of a subway passage you are stuck on a commuter train that never stops, and the changes can be as quiet as a different station name. Like The Exit 8 it takes under an hour.

Ten Bells moves the loop to an old English pub: if nothing has changed you go on, if something has you turn back, and its anomalies run from a moved object to a hand reaching out of the wall. The Cabin Factory is a cheap, hour-long variation where you walk through one log cabin after another on a factory floor and decide if each is haunted; its makers name The Exit 8 as their model. CAPTURED 2 loops a late-90s apartment by flashlight, makes you photograph each anomaly, and adds creatures with their own rules. Chilla's Art put the formula on a Japanese bullet train in Shinkansen 0: you walk car to car looking for anything out of place, and choose to go on or turn back.

If you prefer to watch rather than walk, the I'm on Observation Duty series is the long-running version of the idea. You sit through a night shift on security cameras and report every change, from furniture that has moved to intruders; the third game puts you on foot in a haunted house with a phone, and the eighth spreads the night across six places. Paranormal Night Shift sets the same camera job in a haunted 1980s London home, and Paragnosia gives you a camera on a rail through your own haunted apartment, with a seal that weakens for every anomaly you miss.

Dollmare turns spotting into a job: you inspect dolls on a factory line, pass the normal ones and get rid of the ones that do what dolls should not. That's not my Neighbor is the door-check cousin, comparing each visitor's face and papers to catch the doppelgangers. Who's at the door? turns the check inward: as a patient with psychosis trapped in a small house for eight days, you must tell real visitors from hallucinations before you open the door. Anomaly Company makes it social: up to four friends memorise an office or hotel floor and decide together whether anything has changed.

Before CAPTURED 2 there was CAPTURED, which traps you in an endless dark hallway of your own late-90s home: you zoom in with a camcorder on anything that has changed, a miss wipes the tape, and monsters roam the loop with you. It is on PlayStation and Xbox as well as PC.

Start with Platform 8 if you want more of exactly the same, Ten Bells for a longer loop with a story, and I'm on Observation Duty if you want to sit still and stare.

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