SCRAP Puzzle Writer's Free Short Horror Games Draw Big Numbers
Yamamoto turned his escape game puzzle work into minute-long free games, and the response shows that scale is not what carries a horror idea: Blink Check and Ladder each drew tens of thousands of likes from a single action and a single twist.
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Wataru Yamamoto, a puzzle writer at real escape game producer SCRAP, has released a run of short horror games playable in about one to two minutes. His first, "Blink Check," asks players to tap the closed-eyed people in a group photo; its announcement post has about 31,000 likes and more than 10 million impressions. "Ladder," released October 12, offers seven endings and drew about 29,000 likes. The latest is "Eraser," released October 18.
Yamamoto works at SCRAP as a content director on real escape games, and his side output runs on the same instinct: take one ordinary action, then make it wrong. In "Blink Check" it is tapping the people with their eyes shut in a group photo. In "Ladder" it is climbing toward the sky, with seven endings waiting at the top. "Eraser" is the newest, released October 18, and the action is holding an eraser and rubbing out designated objects until the ending turns unsettling.
Yamamoto also released "Traffic Survey" and "Puku Puku" among the other short works, posted on his personal X account. Separately, his real escape game "Escape from Kisaragi Station," built on the internet-born urban legend, is running at the Real Escape Game Shibuya store.
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