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エスカレーター | Escalator
Escalator is a horror game in which you must find something unusual while riding an escalator and try to escape from an enclosed space.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“This is the first of these "Exit 8" type of games that I managed to finish. I like the concept. Can see some peeps gettin' impatient with waitin' for the escalator tho. I didn't get to experience all of the anomalies. Despite that it's not too bad. I'd like to see a story done…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Unfortunetaly bad game. Similar to Exit 8, but many more mistakes than that. -riding an escalator takes a lot of time, with no option of making it go faster (so if you see anomaly at the start, you need to wait like 10 seconds to progress) -if you go to the menu, you lose…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Lazy, cheap cashgrab; someone noticed the hype around ８番出口 and thought it was a great opportunity to make some easy money leeching off of it, so they created this garbage. Similarly to ８番出口, this game reutilizes the same assets throughout the entire playthrough. You'll…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
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The specifications for the achievement "Bad Manners"
実績「マナー違反」の仕様については、発生するとゲーム進行がリセットされます。 実績名と合わせたペナルティのような扱いとなっています。 The specifications for the achievement "Bad Manners" will reset the game progress when it occurs. It is treated like a penalty combin
Paper defects and bug reports（紙の不具合とバグ報告について）
紙を読むときに移動キー(WASD)を押すと、Cキーで紙を閉じれなくなってしまうので、現状紙を読むときは立ち止まって読むようお願いいたします。 If you press the move key (WASD) when reading a paper, you will not be able to close the paper with the C key, so please stand st
2024/01/07 update
・Fixed a bug that caused some anomalies to remain（一部の異変が残ったままになるバグを修正）
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Adventure · Walking Simulator · Simulation · Horror · 3D · First-Person · Singleplayer · Indie · Psychological Horror (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese |
| Achievements | 5 |
| Official site | https://twitter.com/toyasky_lake |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10,11 Processor: intel Core i7 または AMD Ryzen7 Memory: 8GB RAM MB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 もしくは同クラス以上 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space