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Nightmare Shift
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Ah yes, the horrors of being a woman, living by yourself and working alone at night. This game has some disturbing moments and especially the dreams/nightmares were visually unsettling and nicely done. But there's also much jankiness, character models moving around like ragdolls…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“this game was rather remarkable but there was many instances where i thought i would rather break my monitor then make another twisted and stupid decision with the main character. well the plot twist were done amazingly to a tee with leaving me completely dazed at what the next…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“The game is really janky at times, some bugs (nothing game breaking, just annoying or immersion breaking at worst), the cutscenes are goofy, but it's fine, the game was rather cheap since I bought it on a 40% discount sale but full price? It's not worth it. My biggest issue with…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2025-09 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
PS5 & XBOX release!
Ultimate Games S.A, Nightmare Shift is now available on PS5 & XBOX. Check the game on XBOX: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/nightmare-shift/9NQVPH0HH666 Check the game on PS5 https://store.play
Version 1.0.1 bugs fix & optimization update
We optimized the game in hope that fixed the random crashing at the end of each night won't happen anymore. Fixed the bug in Night 1 Motel where you can get stuck in Room 1 after you give the key to G
Hot fix 1.0
English has been set as default language instead of Arabic. fixed all language issues related to Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Russian which caused of appearing squares instead of letters.
No more AI voices, we got a new cast with real actors now!
We heard you well, we have changed the voices in the game! so now enjoy listening to real actors with powerful emotions! Try the new demo update to listen the new voices! Thanks for the new cast team:
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Psychological Horror · Walking Simulator · Story Rich · Horror · First-Person · Atmospheric · Thriller · Dialogue Heavy · Adventure · Simulation · Life Sim · Immersive Sim (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Arabic * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 23 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10+ x64 Processor: Intel/AMD X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: Yes Additional Notes: SSD strongly recommended for faster loading time. Turn off room lights and Put your headset on for best experience.