SHAFT HAPPENS

Your shift goes down. Your quota goes up.

Welcome to Tiefbau AG. Work alone or with up to three colleagues. Scavenge valuables, throw them into the elevator and get back before the doors close. Meet the company's quota and descend into increasingly hostile workplaces.

Invest in survival. Trust cautiously.

Between shifts, visit the maintenance floor to buy tools and upgrades. Coordinate through proximity voice chat, share the load and decide what the team needs. Optional traitor play adds suspicion to groups of three or more.

Something else works here.

Explore changing floor layouts, special rooms and minigames. Encounter hostile machinery and monsters, including creatures inspired by hand-drawn designs waiting in the shadows. Learn their behaviour and watch your time. ELFI delivers dry announcements in German or English. Sympathy is not included.

Clock in again.

Solo and online co-op, Steam friend invitations, individual voice muting, difficulty settings and accessibility options are included. Text and subtitles support seven languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Translations outside German and English are machine-assisted and still being reviewed. Spoken audio is German or English.

The game is in development. Request Playtest access on this page; participation depends on the test being available. Wishlist the game for release updates.