About This Game

The books aren't the only things that should have been returned.

It's the year 2000, and you're the new night crew at Bellweather Library. Serve the patrons, keep the place running, and save toward a library of your own. It sounds like an ordinary job. Then the phone rings, something moves in the stacks, and the rules start making sense.

Keep the library running

Check library cards, find requested books, process loans and returns, and tackle the shift's chores. Shelve, dust, water plants, stamp, and mend books before closing up. Some patrons are funny. Some are difficult. Some should not be here.

Find out what happened here

Follow notes, calls, messages, and unsettling encounters into Bellweather's past. Watch the security cameras and listen carefully: a routine shift can turn into a chase. The story builds across the nights, with quiet tension, sudden scares, and a library that becomes harder to trust.

Work alone or bring a crew

Play offline in Solo Shift, or share the duties with up to four players in online co-op. Proximity voice chat lets you hear your coworkers nearby. Night-by-night saves let you return for the next shift.

Put your wages to work

Anyone in the crew can spend the shared wallet in the end-of-night Store. Buy useful upgrades for watering, stamping, and book repair, or decorate the desks with collectible figures. Purchases leave your separate library savings untouched.

A longer story in development

The full game is being developed as a 14-night campaign. The free demo covers the first three nights; later nights are still in development.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Portions of this game were created with the assistance of generative AI tools: some 3D models and textures and the translations of in-game text from English into other languages. All AI-assisted content was reviewed, edited, and integrated by the development team, and no AI-generated content is created live at runtime.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

OVERDUE is a co-op horror game. It contains jump scares, chase sequences, tense audio, and moments where player characters can be caught and killed by supernatural entities. Deaths are sudden but not graphic — there is no blood, gore, or dismemberment. The story contains brief, indirect references to the death of a child. There is no sexual content, nudity, drug or alcohol use, gambling, or depiction of self-harm.