The Exit 8 passes three million sales worldwide

The Exit 8 has passed three million sales worldwide, according to Gematsu and an accompanying publisher announcement. The compact anomaly-hunting horror game has turned a simple loop of walking through a station corridor into a remarkably successful indie phenomenon.

Gematsu reports that The Exit 8 has reached three million copies sold. The publisher describes the game as a walking simulator in which players must spot abnormalities and turn back when something looks wrong. The milestone covers the game’s worldwide performance, although the available reports do not provide a platform-by-platform breakdown.

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Three million sales for a deliberately small horror game is a lovely reminder that scale is not the same thing as ambition. The Exit 8 found one excellent idea and squeezed it until every fluorescent light felt suspicious.