Hachi: Eight Feet Tall

Hachi: Eight Feet Tall is a supernatural survival game inspired by urban legends and maze logic. You play as a child trapped in a cursed neighborhood being stalked by the spirit known as Hachi—an unnaturally tall figure whose slow approach masks the precision and inevitability of her pathfinding. The game emphasizes avoidance, resource management, and sound-based navigation within procedurally generated environments.

Territory, Movement, and Silence

The central challenge in Hachi: Eight Feet Tall lies in managing your noise level while navigating shifting back-alleys, homes, and closed lots. Hachi reacts not to your sight, but to your sounds—footsteps, dropped objects, doors creaking. This makes every movement a gamble. You’re constantly deciding whether to sprint and risk alerting her or crawl and lose valuable time.

The environment offers tools for both escape and delay:

• Sound decoys that lure Hachi away from choke points
• Prayer seals that can block her temporarily
• Passage tokens that grant access to locked houses with hiding spots

Hachi’s AI adapts to frequent tactics, forcing players to vary their escape plans. Staying in one area too long causes her range to grow wider and her appearance to distort reality, creating hallucinations that scramble your pathfinding memory.

Time Cycles and Symbolic Rituals

The game is divided into time cycles—morning, dusk, and night. Each phase affects her behavior and movement speed. At night, you must perform protective rituals using objects gathered during the day. These rituals include:

• Arranging talismans in a specific shape
• Playing audio recordings to suppress her presence
• Feeding offerings into abandoned shrines

Each successful ritual buys you time; failure increases her aggression and causes irreversible map distortions. Players who survive long enough unlock insight about Hachi’s past, which opens new endings and gameplay modes, including a high-stakes “mirror version” of the map with reverse logic paths.

Hachi: Eight Feet Tall is not just about escaping, but understanding the rhythm of pursuit. With an enemy that never stops and environments that never settle, the game forces players to balance fear, memory, and ritual if they hope to survive its haunting labyrinth.