If You Love Escape Rooms, You’ll Love the Elaborate Puzzles of Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Nine participants awaken in a facility, imprisoned with a strange black bracelet on their wrists. The exit of the facility is a massive iron door. A masked figure appears and announces the start of the game. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences.

Written and directed by Kotaro Uchikoshi and designed by Akira Okada, Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma is a visceral experience that will make you question your morality through a series of life-or-death decisions where even the best option carries horrifying implications. If you’re a fan of escape rooms, the elaborate puzzle-solving and escape game challenges takes the “escape room” experience to a new level.

You’ll need to explore your surroundings for clues to solve mind-bending puzzles and escape your prison.  It may sound like a classic escape game, where you work together with your fellow captives, however, this is anything but a team-building exercise. This is a ruthless death game where at least six people must die in order to escape. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours.

It’s an extreme situation, trapped in a cold, inorganic space with no one but your fellow captives. This game depicts the anxiety of death being moments away, and the dark side of humanity when everyone feels no one can be trusted, but it pulls you in and doesn’t let go. The decisions you make will significantly affect the fate of the game’s characters, and ultimately the survival of the human race.

As a follow-up to Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and Virtue’s Last Reward, Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma is the final installment that wraps up the loose ends of the Zero Escape series. With clear explanations of previous titles, even new players will be able to follow the narrative.

But if you haven’t played either Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, have no fear. The Zero Escape: The Nonary Games bundle is available now with Game Pass, and includes both Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward.

Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma

Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.

☆☆☆☆☆
6

★★★★★

The experiment wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Nine participants awaken in an underground facility, imprisoned with a strange black bracelet on their wrists. To escape, they must play a game with deadly consequences. The rules are simple–after six people are killed, the escape hatch will open. Who will live, and who will die? The choice is yours. Let the Decision Game begin…

Game Features
Think Your Way Out
Explore 3-D environments for clues to solve mind-bending puzzles and escape your prison.
Decision Game
Question your morality in a series of life-or-death decisions where even the best option carries horrifying implications.

Cinematic Gameplay
Fully voiced and animated story sections push the boundaries of interactive fiction.
Non-linear Narrative
Jump freely between events and characters to piece together the fractured narrative and unlock multiple endings.

Old Faces, New Mysteries
Characters from the award-winning Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue’s Last Reward are joined by a new cast of participants to bring first-time players up to speed and conclude the series for longtime fans.

Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.

☆☆☆☆☆
157

★★★★★

$29.99

$23.99

PC Game Pass

Xbox Game Pass

Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line as part of a dangerous life and death game? Who can be trusted? Tensions rise as the situation becomes more and more dire, and the nine strangers must figure out how to escape before they wind up dead.

*Two spine-tingling Nonary Games
Zero welcomes you to take part in both the Nonary Game and the Nonary Game: Ambidex Edition as the award-winning escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) and its sequel, Virtue’s Last Reward (VLR), are now available together on Xbox.

*A remastered and revamped Nine Hours
The well-received classic game 999 has been updated with hi-res graphics and a variety of new features including both Japanese and English voice acting!

*Seek a way out
Search for clues within numerous locked rooms and solve mind-bending puzzles in order to escape. VLR even has two difficulty settings for more of a challenge.

*Fascinating theories and pseudo science ideas abound along the twisting, turning journey to uncover who Zero is, why everyone was kidnapped, and the shocking connection between the Nonary Games.