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Night Shift Nurses cover art

Night Shift Nurses

Shiravune · 2024-12-16

SteamGOG

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 17, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A washed-up mad doctor is hired back by a devious former test subject and asked to twist her hospital into a corrupt donation mill. Will he seize this second chance to practice his own vision of "science," or will his many failings drag him down once again in this pseudo-medical visual novel?

84%
positive of 652 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)
Night Shift Nurses is the North American localization of Yakin Byōtō (夜勤病棟), a Japanese OVA series adapted by Discovery from the visual novel of the same name. It was formerly licensed by Anime 18, and now by Critical Mass Video. The series is particularly notorious for its explicit depictions of rape, necrophilia, sadomasochism, and paraphilia.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (228 reviews).
  • · Top 36% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 13k–29k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 652 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at GOG (2026-05-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $23.71 · on sale 47 of 48 observed days · $10.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19419420242026Week of 2024-12-17: 194 positiveWeek of 2024-12-17: 34 negativeWeek of 2024-12-24: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-12-24: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-12-31: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-12-31: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-07: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-14: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-01-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-04: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-04: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-11: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-18: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-25: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-15: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-22: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-18: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 56 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-14: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-28: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-21: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.71$9.992024-12-172026-08-302024-12-17 — best price $15.992024-12-31 — best price $19.992025-03-10 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-04 — best price $19.992025-06-15 — best price $19.992025-06-27 — best price $15.992025-07-24 — best price $15.992025-09-07 — best price $15.992025-09-29 — best price $13.992025-10-28 — best price $13.992025-11-21 — best price $13.992025-12-01 — best price $19.992025-12-18 — best price $13.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-12 — best price $11.992026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-02-28 — best price $19.992026-03-20 — best price $11.992026-03-28 — best price $19.992026-04-13 — best price $11.992026-04-27 — best price $19.992026-05-01 — best price $23.712026-05-27 — best price $9.992026-06-10 — best price $19.992026-06-17 — best price $9.992026-06-26 — best price $9.992026-07-10 — best price $19.992026-07-24 — best price $9.992026-08-07 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-08-29 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

266912026-06-01 — 133 pageviews2026-06-04 — 112 pageviews2026-06-07 — 128 pageviews2026-06-10 — 110 pageviews2026-06-13 — 166 pageviews2026-06-16 — 134 pageviews2026-06-19 — 114 pageviews2026-06-22 — 149 pageviews2026-06-25 — 119 pageviews2026-06-28 — 158 pageviews2026-07-01 — 118 pageviews2026-07-04 — 136 pageviews2026-07-07 — 119 pageviews2026-07-10 — 119 pageviews2026-07-13 — 101 pageviews2026-07-16 — 143 pageviews2026-07-19 — 114 pageviews2026-07-22 — 120 pageviews2026-07-25 — 135 pageviews2026-07-28 — 133 pageviews2026-07-31 — 106 pageviews2026-08-03 — 165 pageviews2026-08-06 — 156 pageviews2026-08-09 — 115 pageviews2026-08-12 — 171 pageviews2026-08-15 — 139 pageviews2026-08-18 — 137 pageviews2026-08-21 — 113 pageviews2026-08-24 — 111 pageviews2026-08-27 — 143 pageviews2026-08-29 — 166 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

2DPvEAnime1990'sCasualRomanceLife SimAdventureStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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