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!
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Development log
- PROTAG PLUSHIE NOW AVALIABLEOct 05, 2024
- PROTAG PLUSHIE PETITION (W/ MAKESHIP)Sep 28, 2023
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i feel like this game ate me up and shat me out in the best way possible 10/10 100% reccomen
i played this because of dead plate, i love lil games like this the style is 'chefs kiss'! but i might have killed the mc a few or maybeeeee more times.
Lovely game!! love the colours and the general experience!! everyone and everything looks so cool!!!!
I had lots of fun playing this game! In my opinion, I think the puzzles are well constructed!
I LOVE this game!!! please do more visual novels in the future! (no rush tho <3) words cannot explain how I wish I could play this game for the first time again ><
Do I have to force the rat to go into the hole??? I don't want him to die D:
you can save the rat :D
HOW??
Well you know the password after one playthrough right? Now you can input that without any sacrifices ^^
oohhh makes sense, TYSM i love that rat
that was incredibly upsetting 10/10
I LOVE IT
i love vaugley queer coded men in abstract horror situations 1000/10 <3
played because of normal guy 10/10 (a gun is pointed at me head)
seriously though i like the game its not too troublesome and it just needs a bit of brainpower which is good for my nonexistent thoughts
Elevator Hitch is amazing, the characters have amazing depth while the gaming experience is enjoying and leads me to reinstall it every while. I'm so thrilled that Elevator Hitch has a fandom, if it didn't I'd be deprived of content
Is anyone else having trouble with this game? The warning and control instructions are zoomed in, the text box and background is bugging in and out, and nothing happens after I click on the first dialogue choice. Is it just my computer or something? I've tried closing in and out of the game and uninstalled it and redownloading it multiple times.
Okay. I think it might be my computer. I'm using an old(ish?) Dell laptop my friend gave me. I think it can't handle the game. That's unfortunate.
I loved it! This might be the first time I have no criticism for a game because this was seriously so good, quick, easy, and fun!!
Played this on stream yesterday, I was already a big fan of dead plate for a while and this game is a masterpiece. Ending 1 and Ending 12 were def my favs. I love the unique and Interesting lore and the unexpected things that happen. Amazing game loved it sm xx!!
I'm so sad, it won't start up on my mac. I've deleted it and redownloaded it countless times. I can pess start games but nothing happens except the icon on the bottom of my screen :(
I hope maybe someone could help me!
I CANT DOWNLOAD THIS god i hat macbook
how the sigma
Help
happens on macbook usually, just reopen it a bunch of times until it works
whats up with the childhood bedroom thing and protag? is he schizophrenic? is schizophrenic protag a good headcanon or will i be burned at the stake
No, no, spit your shit! I genuinely love the idea of schizophrenic Protag. I think the 'monsters' (I think it's phrased that way?I haven't played this game in a while) are in reference to his parents/mom rather than hallucinations or delusions, but honestly? Since I haven't seen anything confirmed yet, I'm clinging to that schizophrenia (or Psychosis) headcanon.
yippee!!!
I rate this game 89/70
heh,ALNST REFERNCE??
Muito bom! infelizmente meu qi é baixo e precisei de ajuda 😭. Será que ele precisa daquele emprego mesmo?
QI não é usado como métrica pra inteligencia faz mais de 40 anos, relaxa kk
I can't figure out how to move the camera up and down 😭😭😭😭😭
use your mouse! sometimes it helps clicking on the screen to help it move <3
also, you might want to use the arrow keys to switch the cameras if you need it
I'm very late so you've probably figured it out by now, but I also had trouble with this and turns out you can only move the camera when you're in the elevator and the green exit sign isn't in the bottom right-hand corner
really a good game!! but it'd be nice if it'd had a manual save or a skip button for the intro...
I love the characters and liked pretty much the rat scene!!
Do the protag and coworker have names?
the coworker will give you random names via a dialogue choice, but there isn’t a like “canon” name for either character.
OMGGGG RACHEL ARE U A WILL WOOD FAN?? IS NORMAL GUY BASED ON HIM???
acting like you know the person who made this and youre on a first name basis with them, pretty parasocial, yikes
bruh
WHAT, what do i call her then??? ma'am?? miss?? racheldrawsthis?
dev , developer , creator
saying "rachel" like ur their friend or know them is kind of weird
"OMGGGG DEVELOPER ARE U A WILL WOOD FAN?? IS NORMAL GUY BASED ON HIM???" bffr, their user is literally racheldrawsthis 😭😭😭😭
oh i understand now, it's ragebait, unemployment final boss is here
LMAO
i first found this game around 2022 when it came out from some random fnf website during school and absouletly fell in love with it all the studio investigrave games ive played are so good i lvoe them all
cool game bro I saw someone play 10/10 I LOVE IT!!! and every other studio investigtrave! they are so creative!!! I have no hate about them! AMAZING GAMES!!! KEEP IT UP!!!! >,<
I loved the game and the artistic style so much. The fact that this has been made for a jam is incredible because the message about the toxic work culture is so deep. Anyways, I wish there was an option to start a new run even when you already started one because I don´t want to go throught the whole game again just to get to see a death I missed. But that putting that aside, this game is simply wonderful
art style isn't even good, quit the glazing, the gameplay is even worse. and forget about a "message" its an indie rpg, 50% of the time their fans rip a message and story out of nowhere
PEAK GAME
Haven't you replied to almost every single post, hating on the game? Like I can understand some people might not like it, but man you're showing alot of commitment to hating this game. Edit: so I looked at you're account because I'm bored and do you actually have a job or joy in your life? Is there actually a single thing you find fun other than randomly hating other people and using the exact same insults? Dang bro please find a new hobby this looks super depressing.
while I’m willing to put in the effort to play this on my desktop…anyone else play this on the steam deck? I had very little issue playing Dead Plate on the deck but this game really seems to hate being on the deck. Any tips appreciated :O
after asking around, I found that using a compatibility tool called rpgmakermlinux-cicpoffs instead of proton made the game run much better on the steam deck!
just forget about playing the game honestly.
if you check the reply I made to myself you can see I found a way to make the game run much more smoothly!
Sigh... going back to play this game once again /pos
0.01% of a playthrough is good enough to realize this game is bad, let alone 200% of one.
downloading and playing this game again cuz i love it so much!! love to rachel and the other devs!!
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wtf
Im stuck trying to get the form right.. ive put the right answers but it keeps rejected me,,its okay protag you dont suck i swear
BY THE WAY I KOVE THEIR DYNAMIC SO MUCH TAHNK YOU RACHEL
Honestly I absolutely loved this game and will definitely check out other games by the same creator!! Thank you so much for this amazing game!!
what is ur beef bro why r u everywhere
very cool game!! i've now watched and played this cool game^^ love all ur games and ur art
This is such an amazing game! I can't say that I understand ending 14 , but other than that 10/10!!