Hey everyone,
I just released the free standalone demo for The Elevator, a first-person psychological horror anomaly hunt built around observation, spatial memory, and retro hardware dread.
What is The Elevator?
You are trapped inside a vintage service elevator traversing an anomalous hotel. At every stop, the doors slide open onto a repeating corridor:
- If everything is normal: Log the floor and advance your ascent.
- If anything feels off: An altered object, a shifted light, an impossible architectural change, abort and reset your route immediately.
A single missed anomaly plunges the car back to the ground floor.
What’s in the Demo?
- An 8-Floor Vertical Slice: Experience the complete run through Zone 1 (Residential Hotel).
- A Large Pool of Handcrafted Anomalies: Subtle shifts, structural deformations, and reality-bending glitches mean no two runs to Floor 8 are identical.
- Retro Hardware Aesthetic: Built with authentic mid-90s PSX-style dithering, lighting, and texture warping.
- Environmental Mystery: Find hidden maintenance logs and unredacted incident files tucked into the floors.
Play the Demo & Wishlist on Steam
- Download the Demo here on itch.io: https://yashagdev.itch.io/the-elevator-demo
- Wishlist the Full Game on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5441080/The_Elevator/
Content Creators / Streamers: You are 100% welcome to stream, record, and monetize gameplay of this demo.
If you give it a try, please let me know your thoughts, how many attempts it took you to beat Floor 8, or any bugs you run into in the comments below. Thank you for playing!