After the reveal of its' concept through its teaser trailer, Exist received press coverage from some sites who were impressed about its unique concept and the potential to break new ground in both adventure genre and game narrative in general.
IndieStatik's Chris Priestman did a feature on it laying down some of his interpretations of the teaser and the info revealed--
- “Delving into potentially new questions for games to ask….has a very unique and interesting concept behind it” – Chris Priestman, IndieStatik
Spanish site, Niveloculto did an equally detailed analysis of the implication of exploring such themes and how it was a brave concept.
- This is brave…would prefer thousand failures of this kind than the same old successes“- Niveloculto (Spanish)
For Halloween, PaperDroids did a countdown of Scariest Games, and Exist was the only unreleased game that featured on the list purely on the basis of the potential of its concept
- “It’s like no other horror game out there, and I think it’s themes are so important, so keep your eye out for this one” – PaperDroids
