The Third Shift

About The Third Shift

The Third Shift is made by Teebowah Games, with art and programming by Scottie Supple and music and sound by Julian Crowhurst. It is built in GameMaker to look like a Game Boy game, though it does not run on the real hardware. The full game was released on Steam on 20 April 2026 and is sold on itch.io too, where a build of its first two hours is also offered for Windows and Android.

You are the new hire on the night shift at the Roanoke Museum of History and Wonder, under the eye of your boss, Daniel, and your job is to patrol its halls and clock out at the end. The museum is a labyrinth of exhibits: an aquarium with underwater tunnels, a deep-sea hall below it, a vast cryptids exhibit, the history of the Roanoke colony, and the Human Body Exhibit, a controversial show of plastinated corpses with grafted specimens whose origin nobody explains.

The game switches view as you move. On the security cameras you see yourself from outside, walking through the exhibits; away from them it becomes a first-person point-and-click game. You keep an eye on your stamina and your mental health, solve the museum's puzzles and put together the mystery behind it, which reaches back to the disappearance of the Lost Colony. Gruesome creatures hunt you through the halls, and each one has its own death scene if it catches you.

The makers name Resident Evil, Clock Tower and Myst as its models, and call it a blend of horror, comedy and charm: alongside the grotesque pixel art there is a world's largest potato, pressed pennies to collect and 17 colour palettes to switch between. It suits players who like retro horror with puzzles and a mystery to dig into, and who want choices that matter: the routes you take and what you say decide which of six endings you reach, and what you are paid.

How to play The Third Shift

1. Buy The Third Shift on Steam or itch.io for Windows, or get the Android APK of its first two hours on itch.io.
2. Start your first night at the Roanoke Museum and take your instructions from your boss, Daniel.
3. Walk the halls as you appear on the security cameras, and click around the first-person scenes when you are off camera.
4. Solve the puzzles in each exhibit to open the way deeper into the museum.
5. Watch your stamina and mental health, and get away from the creatures that hunt you.
6. Choose your routes and your answers with care: they decide which of the six endings you reach.

Tips

• Read the exhibit signs: each exhibit is full of detail and information, and the museum's mystery is pieced together from it.
• If the green Game Boy screen tires your eyes, switch to one of the other colour palettes.
• Play again after an ending: the game is built for replaying, with different routes and dialogue choices to try.

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