Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Midnight Shop is currently available in Simplified Chinese only. All in-game text is in Chinese.

Open at midnight. Close at dawn.

No. 17 Huai'an Lane, a small southern town: Liu's General Store. By day it sells thread, candles and White Rabbit candies. From midnight until dawn, it serves stranger customers.

Seven days after your grandmother vanished, you come back to settle her affairs and open the shop door. Under the counter glass lies a card of house rules in her handwriting. Not all of them were written by her.

Will you keep this rule?

Some rules are true and some are false. Keeping them may get you through the night, but a rule can also shut out the person at the door. Every visitor brings something they could not let go: an umbrella that still holds an old rain, a bowl of noodles never eaten, a man who lost his shadow. The people you help will remember you.

Features

• Seven midnights, about two hours per playthrough.
  
• True rules and false ones: mark every rule and decide for yourself which to trust.
  
• Timed choices: someone is waiting at the door, and hesitating is an answer too.
  
• Choices carry across nights and come back to find you.
  
• 5 endings and 21 bad endings; any bad ending can be rewound to the choice before it.
  
• After an ending, rewind to any night with the choices you made then.
  
• Chinese watercolour art and twelve atmospheric music tracks.
  
• Autosave; interface scale 100%–200%; screen shake and flashes can be turned off.

Content notice

Contains themes of death, bereavement and psychological horror.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Backgrounds, CG illustrations and character portraits were created with AI image-generation tools, then selected and unified in style and size by the developer. The twelve music tracks were generated with Google Lyria. The script was written with AI writing assistance and reviewed by the developer. Store screenshots and the trailer show actual gameplay. No AI content is generated during gameplay, and the game does not connect to an external AI service.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains psychological horror, supernatural encounters, and themes of death, bereavement and separation. Bad endings imply harm or death without graphic gore. Includes brief references to tobacco and smoking. No nudity or sexual content.