Night Shift: Ghost Text Story

A card is pinned above the phone in the porters' lodge: IF ANYTHING HAPPENS ON WARD 9, RING THIS NUMBER.

It's your number.

Dev Achari is a new night porter at St Columba's, a half-closed Victorian hospital in Glasgow. Four hundred empty rooms, a kettle, a radio that gets one station, and a call board on the wall. Every bed light has been dark since he started, except one. Ward 9, bed 9 has been buzzing all night.

Ward 9 closed years ago.

Night Shift is a ghost story told in text messages, in real time. Dev texts you, you choose what to tell him, and what you say decides whether he makes it to six o'clock.

REAL TIME
When Dev is busy, sleeping or walking the corridors, he stops texting, sometimes for minutes and sometimes for hours. Your phone buzzes when he's back. If he says he'll be an hour, it's an hour.

EVERY CHOICE MATTERS
Things you tell Dev on the first night come back on the second. Choose badly and he dies. You can rewind to your last choice and try again.

TWO CHAPTERS
• Chapter One: The Lodge (included)
• Chapter Two: Ward 9 (in-app purchase)
Three different endings. After your first ending, Fast mode lets you replay without the waits.

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• Plays offline
• No account, no data collected

Mrs Haldane in bed 9 asks Dev the date every night. Every night, she's a little further back.