Adventure · April 18, 2017

Late Shift (2017)

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Late Shift is a high stakes FMV crime thriller. After being forced into the robbery of a lucrative auction house, mathematics student Matt is left proving his innocence in the brutal London heist. Your choices will have consequences from the very start, right through to the very end. One small decision could change the entire outcome with interactive gameplay that can lead to one of seven conclusions. Written by the author of Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), experience a gripping live-action crime thriller with a total of over 180 decision points. Do you steal the car or do you run away? Do you follow orders or sabotage the plan? You’ll have just seconds to decide as the film continues to roll with no pauses and no looping footage. Shot in full HD, Late Shift ’s cinematic experience blends the line between movies, games and interactive storytelling. Your Decisions Are You • Multi-optional Storytelling: One story, countless storylines, seven endings. • A completely live action, cinematic interactive thriller, filmed in full HD in London, England. • Over 180 decision points in total with no pauses and no looping footage. • Directed by Tobias Weber, and written by Michael R. Johnson, author of Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) • Acting performances by Joe Sowerbutts (Matt), Haruka Abe (May-Ling) and Oliver Twist’s Richard Durden (Samuel Parr).

Adventure releases from 2017

78 Adventure titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Choices Matter · 253
  • FMV · 212
  • Choose Your Own Adventure · 192
  • Multiple Endings · 133
  • Interactive Fiction · 122
  • Story Rich · 121
  • Adventure · 102
  • Movie · 95
  • Indie · 82
  • Crime · 71
  • Singleplayer · 61
  • Realistic · 32
  • Sexual Content · 32
  • Violent · 30
  • Thriller · 24

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Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Adventure

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume8.8k Steam reviewsTop 26% in Adventure
Positive rating86% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 70%
Metacritic79/100Genre average 77 — top 49% of Adventure titles
Engagement hours4 h averageTop 72% for session depth among Adventure

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Czech
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Arabic
  • Danish
  • Turkish
  • Portuguese - Brazil

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

86%Very Positive · 8.8k reviews

7.6k positive · 1.2k negative

Metacritic

79/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.5/10

Curator recommendations

7.5k

Press Quotes

“With its entertaining story that you have a surprising amount of control over, [Late Shift is] definitely a triumph in a genre that is steadily making a revival.” 9/10 – GameSpew “Extremely high-quality acting and set pieces pulled me into the world and pushed me to find the right balance in the choices that I made. It always ended in a way I never expected.” 9/10 – ICXM “High production values, engaging story, quality acting, good balance of more and…

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

4h

brief (under 5 hours)

Median

3h

Typical completion time

Achievements

20

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateApr 18, 2017
DeveloperCtrlMovie
PublisherWales Interactive
Base price$3.59 -76%
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Content Notes

Violence and criminal acts including killing from the beginning.

Editions & Packages

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