We need more unique and clever video game adaptations like Exit 8

Of the nearly 300 movies at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Exit 8 is arguably one of the most unique. After all, it’s TIFF 2025’s single video game adaptation, and it’s got particularly distinctive source material, to boot.

For the uninitiated, developer Kotake Create’s Exit 8 is a 2023 adventure game in which you have to escape a looping Japanese subway tunnel. But if anything, that’s more exciting than it sounds. There are no Resident Evil -style monsters pursuing you, challenging enemies to fight or even any other sorts of big obstacles, really. Instead, you simply walk through the nondescript tunnel and look out for “anomalies” like missing doors or altered signage in the environment. Should you see such an anomaly, you have to turn back. If everything looks n