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2022PC92 % positive1.99 €

You work alone at a remote petrol station in the American wheat belt at night, and something is clearly wrong. This short horror experience with multiple endings thrives on its eerie atmosphere and your choices.

  • Dread and tension
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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The Closing Shift

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2022PC87 % positive5.89 €

Brings what grabs you about The Shadow Over Route 80: dread and tension, a dark atmosphere as well as easy-to-grasp systems.

A short Japanese-style indie horror game in which you play a young woman working a late closing shift as eerie events unfold. Tension comes from atmosphere and mundane routine that gradually turns sinister.

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