Wrong Shift: Find the Anomaly

Six camera feeds. One building. One night. Every hour the building is slightly not the building it was.

Wrong Shift is a security camera game about noticing. The feeds refresh on the hour and something is different in zero or one of them. Click the thing and name it, or press All clear. About eight sweeps, tightening, and the whole night runs two to three minutes.

Reporting nothing is also an answer. Most hours nothing changes. Logging something that did not change costs you more than missing something that did, so the safe move is often to press All clear and mean it.

You find out at dawn, not before. The game never tells you whether you were right while you are still working. At dawn the log book fills in line by line: what you logged, what was actually there, what you missed, what you invented. Then the pay.

An anomaly is a wrong ordinary thing. An object that is not the object that was there. A thing that moved, arrived or left. Nothing jumps out at you and nothing chases you.

The guard before you left a note. One paragraph, professional, and each night slightly less well.

What's in it

• Three buildings: Northgate, the Helix Annexe, Meridian House
• Six rooms each, on six feeds, on a monitor wall that is actually running
• A log book that writes itself, and pays against itself
• Three hidden things. Two of them are hard
• No blood, no body, no gore, no occult imagery
• English and Korean, both written rather than translated. Plays offline, no account, no energy bar.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: click a feed to open it, click what changed and name it, or click All clear.
• Esc: back

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• "Take an advance" is a free button here. It only shows up when the night has left you stuck.
• The mobile version's other video offers (rewind the tape, coffee for more time, new batteries) are not in this version: free every night they would be a second look, more time and a clear feed every shift.
• A tall window (540x960) that fits a 1080p screen and can be resized.

Credits

Art: assetmegapack; Ninja Adventure by Pixel-boy (CC0). Fonts: Chewy, Nunito, Pretendard (SIL OFL). Made with Godot.

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