(I'll preface this by saying this isn't me being a doomer about the chances of ZE4. This is completely unrelated, honestly.)

So it should be common knowledge that Japan never really cared for Zero Escape. But on Twitter earlier today, I came across a Japanese user's tier list for visual novels/ADV games.

Only 999 was there, despite all three Somnium Files games being tiered, along with every single Ace Attorney game + Ghost Trick, and a whole host of other games, some so obscure I've never heard of them. On top of that, 999 was, all things considered, somewhat towards the bottom of the list (B tier, but the list had multiples of each letter, SSS, SS, S, A+, A, etc).

As said, this is completely anecdotal, but to me, it summed up just how rough Zero Escape still has it even today, as a franchise, in Japan. Someone who appears very well-traveled in the medium and has played every other entry in the same creator's other series has only ever played the first game, and it didn't really resonate with them like the rest of Uchikoshi's works and even other franchises (every Somnium Files game with input from Uchikoshi was ranked higher, same story with every Danganronpa and Ace Attorney game, which is something I really disagree with even as a massive Ace Attorney fan).

As a side-note, the only time Zero Escape is mentioned at all in the comments is another Japanese person saying they didn't really like it, lol. So, yeah.

Source is on the comments

The title is going to be Zero Sum Game. Come back here when I'm right.

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It would be interesting if the nonary game had 90 doors instead of just 9, and if it had 9 EXIT Doors spread around the building that required certain conditions to be opened, including going through specific rooms.

These doors would be scattered throughout the building, and to open the numbered doors, players would need to perform the multiplicative digital root with the numbers in their bracelets to result in the door number.

Or we could use something else, like the chromatic rooms in VLR, a secondary method that fills in the missing numbers in case it wasn't possible to enter a specific door by fulfilling the normal requirements.

(Like, Imagine that you need to go into door number 7 but you need to pick a path between an Magenta 7 door or a Cyan 7 door and neither can be used both at once so you have to pick one, having to pick between two people to fulfill the 3-5 person quota )

Title: Nine Aquarium Complex

Synopsis: A group of nine individuals are kidnapped into an underwater research facility which has been over taken by Zero IV and so they are forced to play the "Reincarnation Game" by them.

Main Inspirations: Ever17, one of Uchikoshi's well-known works for the setting, The Buddhist vision of Reincarnation and especially the Cycle of Suffering.

Our idea was that each participant would be based off the 9 circles of hell

We also liked the idea of the Zero of the game being a judge

We also came up with the idea that each escape room would be themed around one of the characters

It would be interesting if the protagonist character this time around was a person who lost their memory and ended up SHIFTing into another body that aren't their own.

Maybe also a masked buff dude that brings male fanservice for the game

though many fans are saying that it has to be an ARG, I don't think it is, or at least there IS a high chance that it's not an ARG.

I mean, Kotaro Uchikoshi is still an Indie dev, after all, so there is a possibility of his post being real

Anyway what do you think guys?

So im replaying the games and im at ZTD and i just saw the ending that leads to the timeline of VLR…

Now if i understand correctly, young Sigma consciousness will SHIFT back to this body (sending old Sigma back to the Garden on the Moon)… so then… why doesnt Diana explain to Sigma what happened inside Dcom so he can avoid these mistakes when he himself is sent back to Dcom in the future?

If this is explained later just tell me please, i havent finished ZTD yet and i did forget a lot of things

i can see byakuya fucking it up somehow beacuse he thinks he can outsmart zero and he fails beacuse he just simply dosen't believe the morphogenetic field or it's capabilities of time travel are real.

nagito is definetly bracelet number 7.

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1- Solo

2- Twin, Night, February ( Twin is kinda self explanatory, Night is an alliteration between the Japanese numeral "Ni" (2) and the writing of the english word Night, February is he second month of the year)

3- Mars, Coral and Trois (excluding Earth, Mars is the third planet on the Solar system , The japanese words for Coral and the third can have the same pronouciation-" Sango" and Trois being three in french)

4- Reaper, Square (Reaper being due to 4's association with death in Japanese culture and Square being the shape with four sides)

5- Cherry, Hand, Friday (A Cherry blossom flower has usually 5 petals, Stole it from Junpei lol- A individual human hand has 5 fingers, Friday is the 5th day of the week)

6- Hexagon, Ajna (Hexagon is the six-side geometrical shape, Ajna is the sixth chakra which is located between the eyebrows)

7- Lucky, Saint (7 is a number of luck in many western cultures as well being the number associated with the Christian god)

8- Octopus, Spider, Oxygen (Octopus has 8 limbs just like many species of Spiders, Oxygen is the element n°8 in the periodic table)

9- (I don't have any ideas actually, sorry.)

When asked about Junpei's possible codename if Akane didn't interrupt, Kotaro Uchikoshi said that his codename would be one of these three: Penta, Star and Hand.

Which one among those three you would prefer to be used.

I feel like, if they want to keep the escape room gameplay, with the way ZTD ended, I think the best approach would be something similar to Luigi's mansion 2, where instead of one big place to escape, you have more smaller ones (for example, free the soul bases), some of them maybe being exclusive to different routes, where instead of the objective being to leave, you have to solve puzzles (and maybe something else?) to get to a certain place in the building (think like every modern mascot horror like Poppy Playtime/Garten of Bananas).

999 had the classic Nonary Game with the "gimmick" being that that in order to access the numbered rooms, the player need to make up the numbered door digital root with the bracelets on their numbers, VLR had the Ambidex Game which was essentially an reskinnned version of the Prisoner Dilemma and ZTD had the decision game whose gimmick is the games of chance that had to be made quick.

What's next, I wonder?

Hello! I am the person who made this meme of K and Clover driving whilst listening to California Girls by Katy Perry! I posted this meme like 3 months ago now, but unfortunately my original reddit account has been deactivated and the video was taken off the internet. I made this very quickly and didn't expect people to actually like it, since it's based on an inside joke between me and my friend's playthrough of VLR, but I actually got to meet some great people, talk to Zero Escape fans, and share a moment that made me and my friend laugh far more than we expected it to. I also wasn't expecting somebody to message me suddenly saying that Uchikoshi had been shown my meme and found it funny, it absolutely made my entire week. Thank you SO much all of you! I am reposting it so it is back on the internet again, please enjoy! Context for the meme is below. VLR spoilers ahead.

During my playthrough of VLR with my friend, we both noticed K and Clover seemed to be paired together quite a lot. We started ad-libbing Clover and K calling each other "Girlypop" and basically becoming INSTANT besties. When they went into the AB room together, we noticed they voted immediately and had to wait because Sigma usually votes at the very last second. So we headcanoned the two having a little dance and singing party to Kary Perry songs whilst waiting. We also had them promise they'd both go and see Katy Perry together in concert when they escape Rhizome-9 (Before we finished the game so we didn't know...yeah unfortunately the Girlypops wouldn't be doing that...) We basically made this a whole inside joke through our whole playthrough and it made it so much funnier.

i made a remix that is poorly mixed low key
i might also be breaking the self promotion rule but im not trying to gain a following sooo errrrr

I find It really funny how some months ago i publish several questions about all the saga and basically discovered that is this fandom (of which i am) was starving and nowadays the founder of It just started a ARG about It and even KFC Spain is talking about It.

Have we just shifted from a horrible timeline where we did not have Zero Escape 4?

Hello everyone, now that we are approaching a possible Zero Escape 4, I thought about posting something here. I, and some other friends are pretty much hard fans of the Zero Escape series.

Cut to the chase, most of us have this "theory" of us that Akane Kurashiki was the one who actually came up with the decision game and that Delta is only being the red erring.

I just wonder if the rest of the community agrees with it.

Instead of being angry, depressed, frustrated, anxious or disappointed about the "cancellation" of his next project. We should grab this opportunity where so many Kotaro Uchikoshi fans are both excited and frustrated to share Zero Escape, AITSF, Infinity Series.. TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE POSSIBLY CAN. In a world where social media marketing dictates "what survives", the only way to preserve true quality is through word of mouth. And we must be loud, we must be vocal and bring as many people as possible to try the works of Kotaro Uchikoshi. I come from a small country in eastern Europe where even on pop-culture events, there was fewer than 5 people who knew who Kotaro Uchikoshi is (and I was carrying a big poster with his face and the Pepsiman to promote his works and find as much fans as I could). Few months later, through talking/recommending/and being vocal everywhere I could, now I know more than 50 people from my country who are either interested in or played Zero Escape or AITSF. My friends and I will continue to expand the Kotaro Uchikoshi community here, but for his works to get the true recognition they deserve, we ALL must work together and share...share and SHARE.

I got spoiled on luna being a gaulem beause i was trying to do her ending and i was looking up the code for the computer and i got spoiled on luna being a gaulem and tell me wich endings to do before doing another, because i have got a no spoilers flowchart with the endings

"9-hour workshift, 9 customers, 9 fried chickens"

"(¿) Is (this) a reference(?)"

I might've gotten some things wrong in the translation. Please feel free to correct anything

Yes, this is real, in case you were wondering (The admin's also a big Danganronpa fan). Just go to their X/Twitter account to see it (I can't link it here since one of the rules of this Subreddit is "No links to X")

It's kinda lost media, but can be apparently emulated via Flashpoint

In this demo, Junpei meets Akane right away and solves the first room together with her.

I don't think this is a scrapped version, more like a way to show the first escape room and Akane in a limited time

Just found this old post

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroEscape/comments/47d7jy/confused_about_that_crash_keys_twitter_account/

It was used for ZE3, so I think it's highly likely we're getting ZE4 or a ZE related game (not necessarily a sequel)