Shaftfall

By DMNagel, 20 July, 2026

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iOS and iPadOS Gaming

Shaftfall — an accessible Elevator Action tribute Ride the elevator, collect the documents, escape through the parking garage. How to play  Goal. Ride the central elevator from the rooftop to the parking garage. Collect every hidden document before you reach the garage. Enemies get tougher the deeper you go.  Controls (PS4). D-pad Left/Right to walk. X to shoot, Circle to jump. Outside the elevator: Down crouches, Up stands. Inside the elevator: Up moves up, Down moves down. Options pauses. Share toggles Watch Mode.  Controls (keyboard). Arrow keys, X = shoot, C = jump, Enter = pause, M = toggle Watch Mode.  Audio cues. Elevator engine plays while riding; a distorted engine means you are standing on top of the elevator, which is dangerous. Short beeps as the elevator passes floors with undiscovered documents. Positive melody on document pickup. Somber melody on defeat. Descending whistle if you fall down the shaft. Ascending whistle on jump. Player and enemy gunfire have distinct sounds. Sounds are panned left or right to match position.  Watch Mode. The character plays the level automatically. Press Share (or M) again to take back control at any moment. Be warned though, watch mode won't earn you any rewards. See if you can unlock the two hidden cheat codes. https://elevator-echoes-quest.lovable.app/

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Question on controls

I do not have a PS4 or PS5 controller, I do have a Logitech PC controller, however, with a very similar controller layout. Including of course dual analog sticks, two bumper and two trigger buttons at the top, a start and select set up buttons, or view and mode if we're talking Xbox here, as well as a large button which I assume is the "sharing" button?
Anyways, my question is can I use that to play this, or do I absolutely have to have a PlayStation controller?

Edit: I forgot to ask if this is only playable on iOS, or can it be played on PC as well?

TIA!

I'm not familiar with that kind of controller

You can always just try and see if that controller works. If not, I could always try to implement support for it. Just know that I am unable to test the functions of such a controller.

PC.

I believe it should be able to work on PC just fine. Just click the link and try, though I can't verify from my side.

At Brian

Logitech pc controller support implemented, at least according to the AI lol. Let me know how it goes. You can now press square to recall elevator when it's drifting.

Cool

I will give this a play through later today, and see how it works on PC. Sadly, I don't have a controller or keyboard for my iPhone. And I do not own an iPad. I wonder, however, would an Xbox controller work with this on iOS? If so, then I wouldn't be too worried about playing on PC. Though if I am being honest, these days I prefer playing games on my PC. 🤷

Xbox should work

At least according to the AI, Xbox controllers should work.

iOS

how does this work for iOS users without a controller or keyboard? I understand it’s a web browser based thing. But from the description it doesn’t sound like it works without those things. I mean no offense to the person who put this out here but I didn’t see any commands for swipes or taps for iOS users.

There isn't

There are labeled on screen buttons, but they won't help much. The game is ment to be played like a console game. VoiceOver only helps with menus.

Re: Xbox controllers

Just got home a little while ago, and I'm quite beat. I think I will give this game some attention tomorrow, and see how it goes. I'll let you know how things go with connecting a wireless Xbox controller to my iPhone, and also whether or not your game works on PC. 🙂