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
ESP (Spanish/Español) by Valentina Zuluaga Lora
pt-BR (Brazilian Portuguese) by Tea Party Project
zh-CN (Simplified Chinese/Mandarin) by 青灯不弈
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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 AVALIABLE99 days ago
- PROTAG PLUSHIE PETITION (W/ MAKESHIP)Sep 28, 2023
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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!!
my pc isnt letting me look up or down :( whenever i try, pushing fn+ the up or down button, it just turns my volume up and down, any way to get around this or use different buttons?
I figured it out! For anyone who may see this in the future, the PG Up and down (9 and 3 on the dial pad on keyboard) work
i dont know where to ask for help but, after i extract the file, and i run the game.exe file, it opens but all i get is a black screen :(
I love this game so much!! It was so fun to play and didnt make me want to die like most other puzzle-y games do and was absolutely worth a solid 3 hours of my life. the art is gorgeous, i love the characters, i love the story and all of the endings, there's only one small problem in the whole game from what i've seen. I am 100% sure without a doubt ive gotten every single ending (I even tried seeing if you had to get every ending in one playthrough, didnt work) but i cant get ending 14? Ive gone through the wiki, a bunch of comments, a few other guides, and i cannot figure out what i've done wrong lol. the only thing i can think of is that sometimes my mouse glitches and closes the game, but i dont know if that could have affected it?? Either way, thats just a little hiccup and i just looked up a video of the ending so i knew what it was lol.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT
i dont know if you can spoiler text on this?? Anyway, one of the things i love is the little bits of backstory in floor 4, i did miss the Parents ending at first because i found the sleeping pill pretty quickly, but i love the little bits of dialogue from the cross and the lamp, and i thought the drawing under the bed was interesting. It was nice seeing a bit of protag's backstory. I think my favorite floor was 8, it was spooky seeing the duplicates of protag and coworker and i had fun trying to get all the different dialogue options with them, it did crush me a bit to have to trick them, especially with them pounding on the door and screaming. Another thing that desttroyed me a little was having to kill the mouse the first time, so i was super happy to see i didnt have to do it again and being able to spare the mouse. Overall protag is a super interesting character, it was so fun seeing the story play out.
Did i mention i love this game?
Doing something like that on a consistent and phenomenal level is essentially nothing short of absolutely incredible.
The only other title I've experienced by this studio that I can use to compare is Dead Plate.
It's honestly infuriating that I don't have the capability to properly describe just how awe-inspiring this studio is.
The characters, along with their shared unique designs, as well as the background design, worldbuilding, pacing, mechanics, and themes that're led by the writing makes this game one of the best I have ever personally experienced.
I've always thought the "Escape Room Genre" was one that could be complex to tackle, primarily due to the capability for both sides of the quality scale.
But this is shining proof of just how phenomenal these games can be.
It was an absolute joy to both play, but also to record this absolute piece of art, and I'm more than excited to not only try the other projects, but also to look forward to future projects.
Once again, absolutely incredible! ^^
uhhh the part where it says like u open ur inventory im confused bc i chose 'inventory', there was nothing in it so i tried every button on my keyboard but it was exiting the inventory
i hope you kept playing after this happened lol. as you go to the other floors, you will be able to obtain items which can be used on other floors. if you feel confused on what to do next, you can read the official guide!
what do you have to do if some fire exit door appears instead of the elevator doors? because when i close the game and then i open it again its still in there
It's part of the game, last ending iirc. Just click on it.
just played this game on stream today!! this was such a blast to play, and i adore the visuals so much.. the storytelling is incredible and all the little hidden meanings and whatnot were super cool to discover!! loved it a lot and will definitely be playing more of your games soon <33
I found this game to be so interesting because the MC is aware of what is going on around him especially when he realizes that even though they die they just come back. I love how there's multiple endings to the game too.
Really cool game, i wish there was a shortcut in the keyboard to go back, but overall i had so much fun!
PEAK GAME!!!!!!
help theres no game when i download it, just game.exe 😭😭
Open that one. That´s the game.
genuinely one of the best escape room games i've played
Casual Bongos.
I can't start the game from the game.exe file
please help, everytime I try to open the game it just quits automatically (i'm on mac) after I redownloaded the game what do i do??
being trapped inside of an elevator with an obnoxious guy right before a job interview in a never ending hell scape sounds like my worst nightmare but this game makes the idea sound fun
My stupid ass got stuck 'cause I didn't read the tutorials and therefore didn't know that I could pan the camera🥲
loved that part where he snappedlove how much personality this game had + the 2.5d, can't wait to play more from you guys
I love it
Dastish fantastish
i dont have the Fn key on my keyboard how can i go 3d then
i found using pg up and pg down worked. not sure why it says that in the controls. :/
Amazzzzzing game! All the ending were hilarious and well made. Love the hidden meanings 😍😍
Awww, I got all endings but couldn't get ending 14😖😖
(Yes I checked the ending guide and made sure I have all posters and deaths.)
:'((( noooooooooooo
Rachel,your game is a masterpieces!!
(I agree with u angel!
i absolutely love every game of you rachel, you make masterpieces onggg
can you just play on icho or do you have to download cuz thee downloads wont work with me
Played this game awhile back ago but I just recently made an itch account so I'm commenting to show my support, this game is by far my favorite Studio Investigrave/racheldrawsthis game
If you havent already PLEEEAAASSEEE go play it, you will not regret it <333
I love elevator hitch, I watched the gameplays and theories of the game several times. Although I can't play it because I don't know how to speak English, because I speak Spanish. It is still a very entertaining game. So if you speak English or any of the languages the game is translated into, I recommend it 100%.
Immaculate! I loved playing this game!
Hey I need help..
The thing is that I'm new with playing on laptop and idk what I'm doing with the controls buttons, I opened the game and started playing but I'm stuck at the beginning where the game first switched to 3d and Idk how to progress idk what to do
I used page up, page down buttons to see 3D. The controls say fn+up and down buttons, but page up and down only worked for me.
Genteeee!!!!! alguém pode me ajudar eu já baixei o jogo em todos os idiomas e está tendo o mesmo problema quando coloco para iniciar/play a tela entorta ficando impossível ler e ver os diálogos, alguém sabe oque pode ser
idk if anyone can help unfortunately,im on mac and i've done everything, I keep trying to launch the game but every time i do it just opens a blank "game" application with no windows or anything, it just says game :( idk if anyone else has had the same, ive got the itch.io app, ive moved the 'game' file to applications, moved it back and used itch.io to launch it, idk man, id really love to play this. idk if its the type of mac im usin or smth otherwise. it also happens with dead plate and married in red :((
hi not sure if this will help but i'm also a mac player the method i use is to right-click the game to open, then it'll says the file cannot be open so you would have to go to system > privacy&security > scroll down you'll find section where it say the file cannot be open with the 'open anyway' button. After you clicked that you just have to try open the game repeatedly, the first three of four times the game will start but turn black screen after a few seconds so you have to keep trying then it'll work perfectly fine. hope this help!
Her magnum opus! So good, the character interactions are so realistic and the story has some nice commentary. 10/10! Would recommend.
I'm so cooked I got all endings except ED 14 I SPENT ALL DAY PLAYING ELEVATOR HITCH AND GETTING ALL ENDING AHHHH AND IN THE END, I DIDNT GET THE LAST ENDING I NEED great game btw !! <3
I cannot turn left/right or up/down on mac :( maybe im doing something wrong but i need help
EDIT: I learnt how. when youre "looking down" you can turn. I didnt realize it worked like that.
i love this game however I cant look around in windows and it's preventing me from playing further can someone help