
Elevator Hitch
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS



Elevator Hitch is a short 2.5D surreal horror/escape room visual novel with point-and-click and puzzle elements following the story of two co-workers suddenly finding themselves stuck together in a "Perfectly Normal" 70s office elevator.
They must explore each liminal-looking floor and find a way to
get off the elevator to their actual destinations.
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✄ Development & Story & Graphics ✄
> RachelDrawsThis
> Ekrix
☏ Composer & Sound Designer ☏
> BellKalengar
🗎 Features 🗎
> Original soundtrack
> 60+ CGs and 10+ backgrounds
> 3D map viewing + point-and-click style gameplay
> Character-driven story with lots of dialogue and choices
that effects your entire run> Infinite suffering by incomprehensible horrors
☢ Estimated Play Time ☢
> 1 hour ~ 1 hour 20 minutes
☠ Number of Endings ☠
> 15
[+ Different dialogue choices/interactions that can be found within the run]
Here's the official puzzle/ending guide
for anyone who may need it!
☠ Available Translations ☠
KR (Korean) by RachelDrawsThis
zh-CN (Simplified Chinese/Mandarin) by 青灯不弈
ESP (Spanish/Español) by Valentina Zuluaga Lora
pt-BR (Brazilian Portuguese) by Tea Party Project
:: RUS (Russian) by Evil and Debil team
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NOTICE:
> There is no manual saving in this game.
> TWs include: graphic gore, blood, violence, disturbing imagery and audio, flashing/shaking images and eyestrain, shortly implied family abuse
This was a game completed in a month for submission in SpooktoberVNJam.
All tips and feedbacks are greatly appreciated.
Thank you for visiting and hope you enjoy the game!

| Updated | 29 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
| Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,876 total ratings) |
| Authors | racheldrawsthis, Rix, STUDIO INVESTIGRAVE |
| Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
| Made with | RPG Maker |
| Tags | Atmospheric, Escape Game, Horror, Liminal space, Multiple Endings, Point & Click, Psychological Horror, RPG Maker, Spooky |
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Development log
- CO-WORKER AND NORMAL GUY PLUSHIE NOW AVAILABLE29 days ago
- PROTAG PLUSHIE NOW AVALIABLEOct 05, 2024
- PROTAG PLUSHIE PETITION (W/ MAKESHIP)Sep 28, 2023





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it is my mission to get all endings
hi so ive this is like one of my first visual novel games ive every played and i really liked it, as someone who doesn't like puzzle games much i enjoyed solving puzzles in this game, it all made sense and i love how all of the rooms had purpose, maybe except the nuclear room, but still. I got a hole bunch of the endings by dying a lot, and i like the characters, in my opinion really good game, also lovely character design, and art really like that too.
Hi, my name is Dylan. I’m a sound engineer and musician with several years of experience in music production. I’m still early in my professional journey, but I’m fully capable of creating music and sound for video games and eager to grow through real projects.
I’ve checked out your game, and its atmosphere really caught my attention. I’d love to collaborate and help shape its sound identity.
I create original music, sound design, and audio integration tailored to each project’s tone and gameplay. My goal is to enhance the player experience with immersive and coherent audio.
If you’re open to discussing a collaboration or would like to hear examples of my work, I’d be happy to share them.
Thanks for your time, and best of luck with your project.
Best regards,
Dylan
el archivo en español es seguro?
no tiene virus?
I can't seem to gat past the doppelgängers, the autosave function is not working whatsoever even after five reboots of the game. It has been extremely frustrating especially after fighting to get my Mac to actually open the file. If anyone has any advice that would be great, I can't turn anymore of the safety settings off for my computer so I'm completely stuck
Love the game
yaoi in everything.
you really like your implied yaoi dont ya?
XDD
Por favor puedes hacer algo para que también se pueda jugar en Android. Eres una artista.
am i meant to use the file "game.exe" or is there annother one i should be using??
youre meant to open file game.exe
ohh okay i was a little confused , thanks
why does the game exe have a double exe? (it's game.exe.exe) also what's about payload.exe? and the other ones too
I just unlocked level 9 and now the game keeps crashing ): The part I could play was really fun though!
Edit: it fixed itself and I finished the game! It was super fun, I really enjoyed it!
The guide said there were 15 endings where one is a secret ending that need the user to experience all the endings so I played the game again and died all the deaths and then got the escape ending but I just cant get the secret ending for some reason. the story was nice though.
i really liked this game. the story telling, the art, i loved it. it had a bit of command problem like dead plate had but it wasnt that much of a problem. i would really love to play more games like this by you
Hello, I'm Experiencing a Bug Where Trying to get the lighter softcrashes the game. I Have the drugged cake but the protag just says they should figure something out so dont to end up like last time and all input stops working after.
So, I play on Mac. I understand that there is no manual saving system, but apparently, at least for me, there isn't an automatic saving system either. I am unable to progress in any way past the doppelgängers, because every time I die, it completely resets the game. At first, I thought it was just annoying game design. I sat through the opening sequence maybe 30 times now, trying to talk with the doppelgängers again and again, before I realized that something is wrong. I don't know how to fix this, but I really would like to play this game. Please help :(
Edit: I went to sleep and tried again in the morning. Game crashed, told me to press F5, so I did. Now it suddenly works. I assume it was just resetting the game with F5, but I really don't know. I don't know what's trickier, a horror puzzle game, or downloading anything on a Mac lol
I love this game, and you should make it where you can play it on your phone like iPhone and Android.
You should make one for phone
The artstyle reminds me of Dead Plate a little, and I am honestly investe
its the same creator :P
Ah! I didn't notice
I probably just didn't care to check :/
I found an issue with the game on Mac. The macOS build you uploaded is Intel-only (
x86_64, NW.js 2022). It doesn’t run on newer Apple Silicon systems where Rosetta 2 isn’t supported. Could you please upload a current macOS (arm64 or Universal) build?yippie imm gnna play bof of them
Hey, so anyone knows how to get the 12 ending if you choose to trust your coworker? I just searched the endings guide and realized i was supposed to say "no" and know don't know how to get that ending 🥹🥹
I was playing this for fun when it came up on my for you on itch. the art style was vaguely familiar, and I was thinking how similar it was to deadplate. About 20 minutes after I finished the game, I actually went to check the creator of deadplate, to find that they were indeed made by the same people. These games are so so fun, and I recommend them so much, now, onto the rest of their games!
Really enjoyed the game...sadly I feel like I was met with a bug that stopped me from getting the Secret Ending. The last one I was missing was the Eaten ending. I didn't get the clear mark on the ending and that ended up not triggering the secret ending, I'm not willing to redo the story a third time to get it.
Still, very solid short story.
The game was interesting and easy to understand. There were some confusion at some points, but they were easy to get past and the characters were also funny. Great game!
i love the art style omg
After the first bit of dialogue, when in the elevator for the first time, the controls to look up/down either don't work or I'm missing something because the game won't go anywhere other than letting me look around- {I'm pressing the Fn key with the arrows but it still won't work}
Yeah I'm having the same issues... Dunno why Fn is needed -- even the dialogue selection is alil janky ' n '
But I don't have an Fn key or anything on my keyboard - just a windows one
Been pressing all around to figure out what would work but giving up now I guess
¿Está en español?
si
see in the folders
absolutely loved it! thank you for making this game <3
i cant dial the phone number for some reason i've tried multiple times yet it doesn't work. Can someone help me? i'm using macbook btw.
how are you trying to dial the number? the way the interaction is supposed to work is you press the arrow keys using up and down to select a number and left and right to go to the different number slots then z but if you're doing that and it still isn't working then idk
OH THAN K UO OMG IVE BEEN TYPING IT WITH NUMBERS LOL
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Super fun and surprisingly polished — had a great time playing!
Just went through all the endings. Thank you so so so much for making this game. I think I'll explore more of its dialogues in detail haha!
[SPOILER AHEAD]
I tested how the dialogue would change if I got the rat after my co-worker leaves for the meeting; it still showed me the part when he is terrified by the rat lollll! And my second thought was that I wish this were not just a bug :(
I have followed all the instructions but I still can't get the scissors, it won't let me talk to the coworker dopel even after like 16 tries :(!! very upsetting :(((
the game is so good! I love the time loop concept where he keeps dying but he doesn't lose his memories. And the style of the game is so cool. I enjoined playing this game.
Played this and got so hooked! Like others had said hunting for each of the deaths was both fun and terrifying. I struggled to look up and down but from the other comments learned the PageUp and PageDown arrows worked for it instead. I ended up staying up later than intended just to 100% it all in one night. The Hired ending and the secret ending broke my heart, the overall concept is very well-executed (pun intended). Excellent work!