Developer: CtrlMovie
Publisher: Wales Interactive
Year: 2017
Genre: Interactive Movie

Late Shift is a choose your own path-style game where you play as a student named Matt who forced to help with a heist and must make the correct choices to survive the night. You watch the interactive film and at specific points in the game you make binary choices that lead to different branches. The game features multiple endings with one being the optimal ending.

I found this game incredibly frustrating. It’s well shot and the actors are all great, but nothing else worked for me. The choices often boil down to being a Good Choice and a Bad Choice with it feeling like a coin flip, and if you chose poorly, you are eventually given a bad ending. This normally wouldn’t be that big of an issue but if you want to go back to redo that choice, you must restart the game and you cannot skip previously seen scenes. Many other choices do not matter at all. Playthroughs also happen to be pretty long, making it a chore to replay. If you want to redo a choice, you have to rewatch up to an hour of the game again just to try the other option. The game also suffers from some poor dialog that would take me out of the game. If you’re looking to play an interactive movie, there’s plenty of better options. Some of the other games by this publisher, Wales Interactive, are worth considering over this game too.

Late Shift is available on a variety of platforms, linked to on the publisher’s site.