All Shift At Midnight guides

Everything on this wiki, ordered the way a run actually goes — the counter first, then telling people apart, then surviving what you let through, then the endings. If something specific just killed you, skip to the bestiary.

Last verified 5 August 2026 · game version: 29 July 2026 patch

1. Your first shift

The job is a gas-station counter job. The horror is what happens when you do the counter job badly. Read the first of these before you start; the other three answer questions that arrive within the hour.

Beginner’s guideWhat the job is, what the quota wants from you, and the mistakes that end first runs. Start here. Nights, shifts & EndlessStory mode is 13 procedurally generated shifts. Only three of them change the rules — read this when you want to know what is fixed and what is rolled. Multiplayer & co-opThree players by design, six selectable since the 23 July patch, and how to divide the work between them. Crossplay — read before buyingSteam players and Game Pass players cannot play together. Finding this out after everyone has paid is the most expensive mistake on this wiki.

2. Telling people apart

This is the actual game; everything else is consequence. A doppelganger you wave through completes its purchase, walks out, and comes back the same night as something that hunts you — which is why identification and survival are one subject rather than two.

Identifying doppelgangersThe seven categories of tell, what the N.E.T. database does that the ID scanner cannot, why Norbert is a trap, and what changed when the patience timer was removed. Threat lookupSearch by what you actually saw — music box, screaming, fake ID — instead of by a name you do not have yet.

3. Surviving what you let in

Seven kinds of threat, and they do not want the same thing. One you summon yourself. One cannot be fought at all. One is not a monster — it is a wind-up box. One is a customer.

BestiaryAll seven threats side by side, from the Entity you summon yourself to the Rakes of Endless Mode. Survival & weaponsSound discipline, barricades, traps, and what each weapon is for. Read it before the hunt rather than during one.

Shrieking Doll — fragile, hunts by line of sight, dies to a few shots. The sensible target if you want Relentless.
Demented — frozen for as long as you look straight at it. You do not out-shoot this one; you walk it into a trap.
Marionette — from Shift 9 onward, flagged in advance by a N.E.T. email and decided by a music box.
Jack-in-the-Box — not a monster. It is the music box, and three melodies is the deadline.
Norbert — not a monster either. A gnome with a fake ID who exists to punish the obvious response.
The Dentist — Shift 13. Immune to weapons and traps. Running is the entire answer.

4. Finishing the story

Which ending you get is settled by two things, and both are easy to miss if you do not know they exist: a phone call offered to you after Shift 12, and how much money is in your account when Shift 13 ends.

All three endingsThe exact conditions for True Ending, Grave Decision and Empty Home, and the global unlock rate for each. All 10 achievementsThe full list with rarity — most useful as a map of which parts of the game most players never reach.

5. After the credits

Endless Mode unlocks only once the story is finished, and it is not simply more shifts: it has an enemy that story mode never spawns.

Endless ModeWhat the beta already contains, what the free Q4 2026 update is meant to add, and where the Rakes come from. Patch notesEvery change since launch. The 29 July patch removed a mechanic and added an enemy — if you finished before then, some of what you know is out of date. ModsNo Workshop, but an active BepInEx scene — including the mod that pushes lobbies well past six. Games like itSorted by which part you liked: the interrogation, the co-op, or the shift itself.

Reference

Is it worth it?The price, the free demo, and what nearly 7,000 Steam reviews add up to. Platforms & Game PassPC and Xbox, day one on Game Pass, and the honest answers about PS5, Switch and mobile. Release date22 July 2026, and the two delays that came before it. ToolsCrossplay checker, achievement tracker and threat lookup — all running in your browser. Secrets & loreWhat the Employee Package actually is, and who writes the Joe’s Diner newsletter. FAQShort answers to the most-searched questions, each linking to the long one. System requirementsBoth Steam spec tiers field for field, the Steam Deck rating and where it comes from, and what the Xbox listing adds. The free demoThree pre-scripted shifts against 13 generated ones — and the free itch.io build this game grew out of. TroubleshootingLobby errors, crashes, black screens and no audio: which have official fixes, and which honestly do not. Player countIs anyone still playing? The Steam numbers, why the trackers disagree, and the figure we will not repeat.

How this wiki handles sources

Specific numbers — unlock rates, patch dates, lobby caps, the cash threshold on the true ending — carry a link to where they came from, with the date they were read. Where only one outlet has reported something, the page says so rather than laundering it into fact. And where there is no source at all, there is no page: no night-by-night walkthrough table, no Rake health values, no weapon damage numbers, no Metacritic average, because none of those exist yet. That is why this wiki is shorter than its competitors in a few places, and why the parts that are here can be checked.