999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
Do you like escape room puzzles? Do you like mysteries? Do you like music with the power to make you bawl like a baby? Do you enjoy the tension of having only a few hours to escape from a steadily sinking ship? Well then, 999 should be right up your alley.
999 is a visual novel with multiple endings, with each ending being dependent on the player’s actions. And no, you won’t be able to get the true ending on your first try. Directed by Kotaro Uchikoshi, 999 tells the story of Junpei, who’s been kidnapped by a mysterious masked figure named Zero, and forced onto the sinking ship to play the Nonary Game. In order to escape the ship, Junpei and the eight other people who have been kidnapped along with him have to solve a series of escape room puzzles and seek a door with a ‘9’ on it.
Without giving away too much of the plot, 999 paints such a wonderful atmosphere of dread, confusion, and the constant fear of being betrayed by one of your allies. 999 is the kind of game where you’ll never be able to guess what’s coming next, and its climactic final act will send you spiraling down an endless abyss of ‘What the fuck just happened?’
