We saw a bunch of exciting announcements and reveals at the Triple-i Initiative Showcase earlier today, including release dates, game reveals, and demo shadowdrops. One of the games we saw was The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator, a first-person immersive sim game that has announced it will be coming to consoles as well as PC in 2027.
Developed by Fantastic Signals and published by tinyBuild, The Lift has you take on the role of a handyman who has been awoken from stasis to find out what is wrong with The Institute, humanity’s most advanced research facility, after a catastrophic incident leaves it in turmoil.
The Lift is essentially a handyman simulator paired up with a sci-fi narrative and world. It blends feel-good repairing gameplay ranging from furniture repair to complex electrical engineering projects, all within a research complex full of biomes, secrets, and mystery.
Key gameplay features for The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator include:
- Satisfying handyman simulator + immersive narrative-driven adventure
- Massive research complex to explore and renovate
- Complex electrical engineering projects
- Your own toolbox full of weird but useful gadgets
- Recycling-based crafting system
- Highly interactive world inspired by Soviet retrofuturism
- Memorable, fully voiced characters with engaging quests and stories
We saw some pretty crazy-looking or behaving equipment in the console announcement trailer, including some type of elasticated tape that straightened out a stone pillar, returning it to its original structure. No doubt that is just one of the many weird and wonderful tools you’ll get to use as you explore The Institute, using the eponymous Lift to travel the dilapidated megastructure.
Adding to The Lift’s already pretty bizarre world is a retrofuturistic art style that Ivan Slovtsov, Founder and Game Director at Fantastic Signals, said was inspired by “the works of the Strugatsky brothers and the SCP Foundation.” While it may be some time before we are cleaning up the cosmic clutter and putting reality back as it should be, you can be sure that we’ll be ready when The Lift arrives next year.
The Lift: Supernatural Handyman Simulator will release in 2027 across PC and consoles.
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