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The Cabin Factory

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Inspect each cabin on the line and say whether it is haunted.

Platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch
Stores: Steam
Price: Paid
Rated: Very Positive on Steam (91% of 3,857 reviews); 4.61 of 5 from 768 ratings on the PlayStation Store
Length: about an hour
Players: 1
Made by: International Cat Studios
Released: 2024

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What frightens As a cabin inspector you walk through one log cabin after another on a factory floor and decide if it is haunted. A moved doll, a sliding cup or a figure that was not there means turn back at once and press Danger, and some ghosts chase you out.
Content: jumpscares, ghosts that chase you, violence (esrb teen).

The Cabin Factory is a short first-person anomaly-hunting game by International Cat Studios, on PC and consoles. You are a newly hired inspector who walks through each prop cabin on a factory floor and marks it Clear or Danger; if anything moves or is wrong, you turn back at once.

About The Cabin Factory

The Cabin Factory is a short horror game by International Cat Studios, a two-person studio based in Spain and Japan. Future Friends Games published it on Steam in December 2024, and Feardemic brought it to PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S and Nintendo Switch on October 16, 2025. It costs $2.99 everywhere.

You play a newly hired inspector at a factory that builds log cabins as props for horror films, working alone in a huge warehouse while the cabins arrive one at a time. Your job is to decide whether each one is safe to use on set or truly haunted.

Every round works the same way. A cabin stands on a green platform beside your console; you walk inside and look over every room. If it is safe, you go back and press Clear. If you see an anomaly, the rule sheet on the console says to turn back immediately and press Danger, and any movement means the cabin is haunted. Eight lamps on the console count your right calls, and a wrong one sets you back; eight in a row ends the shift.

The horror is the attention it asks of you. You learn what a normal cabin looks like, then spend each visit waiting for something to be not quite as it was: a doll that has moved its legs, a cup that slides along a table, a woman from a portrait now standing in front of it. Some changes are subtle, many are not, and a few ghosts come after you when you linger. Reviewers found most anomalies easy to spot but praised the scares and the few rounds that play with your expectations, and hints of a story about the inspector's own past run under the cabins.

The makers name The Exit 8, Pools and P.T. as their inspirations, and it shares their loop of one space repeated with something changed. Where The Exit 8 repeats a corridor, this one builds each round around a whole small house with stairs and several rooms. It takes about an hour, which makes it a good first anomaly game, or a quick one for players who have finished The Exit 8 and the Observation Duty games.

How to play The Cabin Factory

Buy it on Steam for Windows, or on PlayStation, Xbox or Switch, and start your shift at the factory.
Read the rule sheet on the console, then walk into the cabin in front of you and look over every room.
If anything moves or looks wrong, turn back at once and press Danger at the console.
If the cabin is normal, return and press Clear; light all eight lamps with right calls in a row to finish.

Screenshots

A log cabin with a glowing porch on a green platform in a bright factory hall, beside the yellow inspection console

The console seen from above: eight progress lamps, a red Danger and a green Clear button, the rule sheet and a note saying Shift to run

The inspection console alone in a spotlight in a pitch-dark factory hall

A dark cabin room lit by a glowing wood stove and window light falling on a boombox, with a wooden chair nearby

A framed portrait of a stern red-haired woman above a dresser with wooden mugs and a wicker basket in a dim cabin room

A figure with an orange cloth over its head sits on the floor of a dark room, facing an old television and VCR

A grimy bathroom where the mirror shows a grey-haired figure in a plaid shirt pressed against a door

Tips

Spend the first clean cabin learning its rooms well, upstairs included; every anomaly is a change from that.
Hold Shift to run, as the note on the console says, when you need to leave a cabin in a hurry.
Do not linger once you are sure something is wrong: the rule is to turn back immediately, and some ghosts give chase.
Look at small things as well as big ones: a toy's pose or a cup's place on a table can be the only change.

Questions

How long is The Cabin Factory?

The makers put one run at roughly 60 minutes, and the median playtime among recent Steam reviewers is about 75 minutes.

What is The Cabin Factory like?

It is an anomaly-spotting game in the style of The Exit 8: you inspect cabins one by one, decide whether each is haunted, and need eight right calls in a row to finish.

Is The Cabin Factory on consoles?

Yes. Since October 16, 2025 it is on PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X|S and Nintendo Switch, published there by Feardemic. The Supporters Pack DLC is only on Steam.

Is The Cabin Factory very scary?

It is tense rather than gory. Most frights are things that move or appear when you look back, with a few chases and jump scares; it is rated ESRB Teen for violence and 16 in Germany for horror.