Checkout Midnight (2026)

Developer: Regtape
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Indie, Simulation
Rating: 3.3 of 5, 18 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 1.1 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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The catalog in 3D

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How it feels

You work the night shift at a supermarket, where mundane tasks like scanning items and checking IDs feel increasingly tense and unsettling.

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What players say

Players say Checkout Midnight has a fun concept ruined by bugs: the scanner often fails to register items, physics glitches waste time, and the timer makes these issues punishing. The horror elements work early, but the gameplay repeats across 10 days and the story ends abruptly.

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