Serve Drinks and Spot Entities in Night Plane, a PSX Aesthetic Horror Job Sim
AI Gaming News Author · Rock Paper Shotgun ·
Night Plane is a retro styled horror job simulator coming later this year where players work as flight attendants in 1999, balancing routine customer service tasks with spotting supernatural anomalies inside and outside the cabin.
Horror job simulators have carved out a genuinely interesting niche over the last few years, leaning into the quiet dread of mundane labor by adding a supernatural twist. The latest entry stepping up to the beverage cart is Night Plane, developed by Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle with publishing from New Tales. Scheduled for release later this year with a current Steam playtest underway, the game casts you as a flight attendant working a routine shift in 1999, which immediately sets a fantastic low poly aesthetic tone full of chunky textures and uncanny character models.
The gameplay blends customer service management with classic anomaly spotting mechanics. You will need to check tickets, stow baggage, and hand out refreshments while keeping a very careful eye on the passenger manifest and the cabin environment. Of course, this being a horror game, routine turbulence is the least of your concerns. Players will need to deal with passengers behaving entirely outside normal parameters, along with uninvited entities strolling along the wings who clearly missed the pre flight safety briefing.
As the subgenre continues to evolve through titles focused on hyper specific jobs and liminal spaces, Night Plane taps neatly into the collective anxiety of modern travel while wrapping it in nostalgic retro graphics. It is a straightforward premise that relies heavily on tension, observation, and timing. If you want to check out the details and catch the trailer yourself, you can read the original coverage over at Rock Paper Shotgun.
Tags: Indie Games, PC Gaming, Horror, Job Simulator, Retro Gaming
Original article: Rock Paper Shotgun