Overview
- Also Known As
- Kyoukugen Dasshutsu 9 Jikan 9 nin 9 no Tobira: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (JPN)
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
DS
16th Nov 2010
10th Dec 2009
- Tags
- Official Site
- aksysgames.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (DS)
Fine, fine, fine
You wake up in a cabin on a ship, clueless as to how you arrived. You soon remember a mysterious figure in a gas mask and an odd odour filling your apartment. Before you have time to put the pieces together, the window cracks and water begins to flood the small space. Either you find a way out of the locked room, or you drown. This...
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999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors News
Memory Pak My First Killing Game - 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
What a wicked game to play
There was a time before I knew about killing games. Before Hunger Games, before Danganronpa, before Squid Game. And then, I played 999. On the face of it, killing games seem sociopathic: We tend to follow a single "player" who is unwittingly enrolled in a game where only the strongest, cleverest, or most underhanded...
Soapbox Playdate Sold Out In 20 Minutes - Is It Time For A New Nintendo Handheld?
The Game Boy... 2
Many of us at Nintendo Life have been patiently, excitedly waiting for the Playdate to go on sale, because we're suckers for bits of colourful plastic. Well, it did, and we missed it, because all 20,000 initial units (for the 2021 batch, at least) sold out in just 20 minutes. [Not all of us missed it! - smug Ed] It's hardly...
Soapbox It's The Summer Of Visual Novels On Switch, And It's Just The Beginning
I should probably learn to read
Visual novels. Are they games, or are they slideshows? Well, let's get one thing straight, because this is a soapbox: I personally don't particularly care. I enjoy an evening curled up with a good book, and likewise, I enjoy an evening curled up with a good visual novel on auto-play, occasionally unfurling my hand...
News Spike Chunsoft Has A Mysterious New ARG Website... Could It Be About Zero Escape?
The eyes have it
Stay calm, everyone — but Spike Chunsoft, makers of the brilliant Zero Escape series, the excellent Danganronpa series, and many other visual novels and narrative adventures, is teasing something new. The website features nine eyes, each with puzzles on them. Clicking on each puzzle will allow you to type in the answer — in the...
News World's End Club Is A Surprise Addition To The Switch Catalogue From The Makers Of Danganronpa
Time to, er, watch some children murder each other?
If you're into the brutal teen-murdering, teddy bear creepiness of Danganronpa, then you'll be happy to hear that Tookyo Games - a studio that boasts members of the Danganronpa and Zero Escape teams - is bringing World's End Club, the game they previously teased on Apple Arcade, to the Switch...
Soapbox Time Loop Games Are Strangely Comforting In Times Like These
Every day feels the same, so let's play games where every day IS the same
Right at the end of last year, Natasha Lyonne — star of Groundhog Day-inspired TV show, Russian Doll which sees her character Nadia (a software developer, no less) stuck repeating the same night over and over again — shared a tweet that made everyone collectively start...
Random Real Zero Escape: Trust on Trial Will Take a Literal Approach to the Iconic Game Series
Experience to launch on 15th April in LA
Plenty of press releases that work their way to our inbox have little relevance to Nintendo or games on its systems, but occasionally a slightly off-the-wall release actually achieves the task of being interesting. One example has come in from Aksys Games, which is partnering up with SCRAP Entertainment and...
News Zero Escape Volume 3 Will Tell a New Tale on 3DS in 2016
A moment we never thought would come
Fans of Kotaro Uchikoshi's brilliant narrative experiences - 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors on DS and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward on 3DS - have some terrific news to celebrate. Publisher Aksys Games has announced Zero Escape Volume 3 for an arrival on 3DS in the first half of 2016 in North...
News Aksys Games Confirms 999: The Novel For iOS
The official website does plug the full games, at least
During February Zero Escape series creator Kotaro Uchikoshi emphasized the challenges he was facing to make a third game in the franchise, with publishers apparently not deeming another entry financially viable. Uchikoshi-san was touched by fan support, however, and is contemplating alternative...
News Zero Escape Series Creator Considering New Options for Possible Third Game
Fans make a virtue of necessity and create an online campaign
Last week, Kotaro Uchikoshi, the creative mastermind behind the Zero Escape series - which includes the highly acclaimed puzzle-based visual novels 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - stated with some sadness that a
About The Game
Junpei, a fairly normal college student finds himself involved in a deadly conspiracy that he couldn’t have possibly imagined.
He awakes aboard an old passenger ferry, dazed and confused he stumbles around the room trying to reclaim his memories. First thing he noticed was a number roughly drawn on the cabin’s door… a bright red number 5. Junpei’s memory then returned and he remembered what happened right before becoming unconscious! A mysterious person with a gas mask crossed his mind. He remembered the haunting words he spoke, “I’m gonna make you play the game… the ‘Nonary Game’… the game of life or death”.
“We’ve decided to call 999 an ‘Adventure’ game,” say Ben Bateman, Localisation Editor, Aksys Games, “but I don’t really feel that’s entirely accurate. 999 is a game that simulates life, or at least it would if your life was about being trapped on a sinking ship and forced to complete a series of incomprehensible puzzles before your practically inevitable death. It is about relationships, and how they will ultimately kill you. There is also some blood, and an ax, so if you’ve always wanted some blood and an ax in your life, there you go. But what really brings 999 to life are the people who inhabit it. You will learn to care for them; to feel as though you are there and they are your friends, and then they will die because you made the wrong choices. Just like in real life.”
- Nine Hours: You only have 9 hours before Junpei and the other 8 kidnapped drown. Numerology, music composition and logic puzzles are just a few of the 32 plus obstacles that stand in the way of their freedom.
- Nine Persons: Uncover the mystery surrounding the lives of the 9 captive characters and how their blurry pasts reveal a disturbing future. Help all the characters escape but beware! A wrong decision or careless mistake might put their lives in jeopardy.
- Nine Doors: Each hostage is cursed with a digital watch that displays their special number. These numbers are the keys to unlocking the 9 doors.
- Explore your surrounding for clues to unlock the next door by picking up and examining objects.
- You must use everything in your environment and personal experience to get out.
Comments 6
I have no idea what this game is, but I'm buying it.
It's a suspense novel game combined with "escape the room" puzzles aaaaand maybe a little bit of math.
Can we get a review here? I really liked this game and would like to see what the reviewers thought of it.
@inwantof3DS: it's on the list of things to do. we'll get around to it eventually. :3
thanks tbd. I'll make sure I keep an eye on this page...I wouldn't be surprised if it was an 8 or a 9...or even a 10 (though it's highly improbable).
Can't wait for the review!
This game is just CRAZY awsome !
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