"Sometimes I enjoy those kinds of games, but I expect The Lift to be my favorite of them going forward, because it takes the job sim genre and makes it spooky and weird. Inspired by the New Weird movement, which defines things like the SCP Foundation and Pacific Drive, The Lift casts you as a handyman who fixes benches, replaces light bulbs, and reroutes electricity in a facility that quite closely resembles the setting of Control."
"As the "Keeper" sent in to keep things tidy, you'll need to solve BioShock-like electricity puzzles, clean up mystical black gunk coating much of the place, and explore the world in a manner inspired by immersive sims. Particularly inspirational to the game's designs is one of my favorite games ever made: 2017's Prey. Finding new crafting blueprints, then dumping resources into a giant machine where it spits out new, more valuable parts,"
The Lift puts players in the role of a handyman known as the Keeper charged with maintaining an uncanny facility called the Institute. Gameplay fuses routine maintenance tasks—fixing benches, replacing light bulbs, rerouting electricity—with supernatural elements like mystical black gunk and BioShock-like electricity puzzles. The game uses Prey-inspired crafting by finding blueprints and feeding resources into a machine that produces upgraded parts, and it supports nonlinear progression with multiple solutions and tools that change prior challenges. A free playtest is available on Steam, and the game draws visual and structural influence from Control and Prey.
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