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Paranormal Night Shift

Wheeler Whale Games · 2025-01-13

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jan 13, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Paranormal Night Shift is an observation and spot the anomaly game set in a haunted house in the 1980s.

97%
positive of 206 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$3.99
steam price (US)

You and your partner, Gary, are ghost hunters. A desperate call from a family in distress leads you to a house in a residential area of North London, where strange phenomena are disrupting their daily lives. Your job is to keep a close eye on the cameras and report any anomalies to your partner. But be careful, this house is truly haunted and if you miss too many anomalies, you might not survive the night... You will have three nights to play, 3 to 5 hours of gameplay, depending on your powers of observation, and a mystery to unfold gradually. Keep your eyes peeled, ghost hunter, and good (Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 49,195 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–9.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 206 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

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9920252026Week of 2025-01-13: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-20: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-27: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-02-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-03: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-24: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-31: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-05: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-07: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-29: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-02-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-16: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-04: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-29: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-20: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-17: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-31: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsCaptions availableFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)15537%12

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DGore1980sIndieHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureRealisticSingleplayer

Census log

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

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