Late Shift Reviews

Legit one of the worst games I have ever played. First, the game runs really bad, the motion blur cannot be turned off and for some reason the lights get darker or brighter dependent on your graphics settings. Game ran bad on a 3070ti, low settings were tolerable because at least that turned off motion blur. Now onto the game itself, you work as an employee at a gas station where you have to complete a couple simple tasks and help customers on their way. Nothing scary happens here aside from weird and bad hitboxes of items you need to interact with. The scariest thing of them all, a customer didn't have his feet and shoes attached to the rest his body while still being able to walk. Truly horrifying. There is also a driving section, at some point you need to go home, as you do after work. You get in the car and have to deal with some of the worst driving controls I have ever experienced. I cannot drive in real life but I am sure it's easier than in this game. Once you are home the game "tells" you you have to go to bed. There is a little arrow icon above the bed but no matter how much I interacted with it, or tried to. Our character simply did not want to sleep. It turns out she needed to text a friend on her computer. I only figured this out after walking around the room and just mashing e on everything. The next day during your shift, you hear a strange noise coming from the bathroom, at least, you don't actually hear this. The game just tells you via text on the screen that you should hear this. You go and investigate and get teleported to a house where you have to escape some dude I guess. This plays or tries to play like many other horror games, sneak around and find keys or items to escape. Luckily you can just open the front door! It's open. Sadly our character is maybe disabled or something because she doesn't even try to escape as the gate is closed. The low fence is simply too much to deal with. So you go back inside, find some keys and even a VHS tape, how interesting! Is this going to give us some lore? I played the VHS in the attic room where I got to look at a black screen. Truly horrifying. What else could this guy be up to? Whatever it is, he is afraid of tables as to escape him I could clip into a table and he would just leave me alone, allowing me to easily explore and escape. Ohh how the turn tables! As I find the key to the gate, I leave and beat the game! Hooray! Anyway yeah don't buy this, prolly an asset flip, runs really badly, isn't optimized. Full of bugs and glitches. Low effort overall. Play a free horror game on itch.io or something and save your money!

TLDR; Needs polish. Cheap game $3.59 even discounted 10-29-24. Almost a steal. Lighting in the environment art needs some rework. Game needs to be optimized better, ran on high and even on lower settings and it still ran sluggish for me. The npc models, like the old lady, are a bit "janky" they wobble like a bobble head sometimes. You get stuck in certain spots in the game, like the counter, and you have to wiggle your way out of it. Asks for private and public network access for a single player game. Why? [b]Denied[/b] Story wise there's something here. Atmosphere is unsettling. The game's bugs and optimization problems pull me away from what's going on in the game to have fun with the enjoyment. Games cheap if you just want to take a look at it.