13th Ball: The Nightmare Shift
Working the night shift at a rundown pool bar sounds simple enough: rack tables, serve drinks, mop floors. But when reality begins to twist at the corner of your vision, your sanity is put to the test. Will you succumb to your deepest fears, or survive to clock in again tomorrow?
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You took the night shift at a rundown pool bar on the edge of town. The pay is decent. The work is simple. Rack the tables, serve the regulars, restock the bar, mop the floors. Nothing out of ordinary. But you can't help but notice, the glasses you washed are dirty again. The balls you racked are scattered. And the customer playing at pool table 3 is still standing there. But you never heard the door open.
The longer you stay, the more you question your own sanity. By the time you realize something is wrong, your shift isn't over. It's just beginning. And it won't let you leave, unless you start to look beyond what meets the eye.
Key Features
A narrative horror-sim set in a '90s rundown pool bar. Just neon, cigarette smoke, and an unsettling jukebox.
Serve customers, clean the bar, restock shelves, and keep things running. The job doesn't stop because you feel someone, or something, is watching you.
Your sanity frays in pieces. Tasks undo themselves. Rooms feel wrong. Blackouts. The game won't tell you when your eyes start lying.
Keep going and uncover what happened here before you clocked in, and you might learn that all hope is not lost.
Endure sanity-destroying events that intensify the longer you stay, or the more you learn the truth.
Multiple endings shaped by what you find, how much sanity you hold onto, and what you choose to believe.
