The Night Shift released on Steam on September 14, 2026 at $2.79, developed by thetaa7.
VERIFIED Source: Steam store page (appid 5140820), checked 2026-09-15
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The Night Shift: 1984 Blizzard Horror Told Through a CRT Terminal (Sep 2026)
The Night Shift released Sep 14, 2026 at $2.79 — a text-driven horror mystery set in a 1984 NOAA weather station, told entirely through a phosphor-green terminal.
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A text-driven horror mystery set at Station 13 in November 1984, told entirely through a 1980s weather station terminal, with three branching routes and ten endings.
VERIFIED Source: Steam store page (appid 5140820), checked 2026-09-15
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How long is The Night Shift?
It branches across three routes with ten distinct endings — one night never shows the whole story.
Is it a jump-scare game?
It is a text-driven horror mystery played through a terminal — the tension comes from signals, logs and what the station refuses to explain.
What does The Night Shift cost?
$2.79 on Steam.
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What the game is
The Night Shift is a text-driven horror mystery released September 14, 2026 at $2.79.
It is set at Station 13 on November 27, 1984, at 02:43 AM — you are Cole Ashford, 28, three months into your first remote posting as a NOAA meteorology engineer.
Your partner left on a family emergency and his replacement never arrived; the blizzard did instead.
The station and its secrets
The duty roster lists thirteen names going back to 1976 — yours is the fourteenth, and the only one still written in pen.
The radio catches a signal it shouldn't at 108.7 MHz; the seismograph logs a spike thirty meters under your chair in solid bedrock; and somewhere in the sub-levels, Door Four has a sign that just says not to open it.
Three branching routes and ten distinct endings mean no single night shows you the whole picture.
Tools of the shift
A lived-in station interface: real-time seismograph, thermal camera, shortwave radio, and a hypothermia meter that does not forgive carelessness.
Thirteen predecessor dossiers to identify one clue at a time, plus fourteen personal cassette tapes recorded by the observer who had your desk before you.
Includes a phosphor-green CRT terminal mode, an idle mode that turns your screen into a surveillance tape, controller support and 10 language localisations (BOUNDED: official Steam description, checked 2026-09-15).
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