The 9th Gate

The 9th Gate is a survival horror game in which you search a presumed-abandoned apartment for nine cursed dolls. You must destroy them in a ritual circle to save a girl before time runs out, while spirits try to stop you.

Search the apartment

Use your phone to listen for the dolls and detect spirits, and look at spirits through the phone’s camera. Stay quiet and out of their sight to avoid being caught: using the camera can reveal you to them, and some spirits can hear you. You can also run and use parkour-style movement to evade ghosts.

Face the spirits

The apartment contains nine spirits with distinct behaviors to learn and overcome. Both wandering and hostile spirits can get in your way, and destroying each doll brings more of the dangerous spirits into play. The game studies your movement and uses procedural scares, so encounters and surprises vary from one experience to another.