The Library

The Library

Sahmyook University Creator · October 17, 2024 · Casual, Puzzle, Exploration, First-Person, Psychological

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About The Library

Suspicious things happening in the library

*******
You fall asleep while studying in the library.
I'm trapped in the library on the eighth floor.
I need to escape.
You can take a test the next day
*******

*******
The game is very simple
If there's an abnormality, you can get on the elevator behind you
If there is no abnormality, you can board the elevator in front of you
But I'm not sure if the anomaly is going to work
I wish you all the best
*******

The Library — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Jul 22, 2025
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8 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 30, 2026
This is yet another student project, one of literally thousands self-published on Steam Direct. It's from Sahmyook University in South Korea. This is an academic exercise, not a professional game. While it has more quality than most amateur games, it is not a complete gaming experience. Student projects have limited value for gamers because they're not fully developed games, just barely functional demos that show the students progress. Steam is not a place for for-profit colleges to dump student homework assignments... and having thousands of these is not good for gamers. The students made one of those "repeating level" escape rooms... basically you're stuck on the 8th floor of a library and when you think you get out you're back there but things are slightly different each "loop". Kind of like a really lame spot-the-differences meets first person horror adventure. It's an average concept in general, has been done better than this by other games, and just doesn't pop. But we shouldn't expect too much from student projects. The graphics aren't great, low poly assets with muddy, poor quality textures. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contri…
3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 31, 2024
The Library is an amazing game of skill and endurance. It is fascinating how much effort was put into minute details and differences! I was very close to failing at descending a floor until I just barely saw the upside-down girl on the wall in a t-pose position. She was tough to find, and I commend the difficulty implemented into the game to inspire a demanding challenge to beat within the target audience. Clearly, The Library is destined to have a roaring fan-base, craving for more. 10/10 for button
2 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 4, 2025
Nice Work!! Dev Just go to the elevator that says "up" really it's "Down" LOL funny test my metal state
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 18, 2025
I gave this game .1 hours more than it deserved. It's free because its worthless.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 23, 2025
Well it was free so I'm not really complaining. But the gameplay didn't make much sense, even after playing around for about an hour. It just keeps sending me back to the 8th floor. Nothing scary happened except some random screaming on a floor. The lowest I got was floor 2 and then I couldn't recreate it when it sent me back to 8. I have no idea how this is supposed to work. The instructions are very vague.

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