In November 2023, developer Kotake Create lured unsuspecting players into its unassuming but deeply unsettling horror game, The Exit 8. The first-person game traps players in a realistically rendered looping hallway of an empty Japanese subway station, and tasks them with studying their sparse surroundings to spot visual discrepancies, called "anomalies". Correctly identifying anomalies, which can be easy to miss, like an overhead sign reading “Turn back turn back turn back,” or more blatantly scary, like a locked closet door suddenly creaking open, allows players to progress to the next loop, starting from Exit 0 and ending at Exit 8. Failing to identify an anomaly before completing a loop resets the player to Exit 0. The Exit 8 became a well-received cult hit and has now been adapted into a live-action film.…