Bump in the Night

Bump in the Night is a single-player horror game about investigating haunted locations. You direct NPC investigators Bob and Susan from a command center inside each site, while they explore the areas you cannot enter. Your team searches for evidence, identifies the ghost and tries to survive its territory.

Investigate haunted locations

Each location has its own map features, challenges and difficulty. Some ghosts can use their abilities more easily on particular maps or in different ways, and locations offer distinct clues for certain types of evidence. Investigations are procedurally generated, so each one unfolds differently. You can save, replay and share the seed for an especially intriguing sequence of events.

Direct your team

From the on-site command center, you assign Bob and Susan tasks, give them equipment and choose areas for investigation. They can explore autonomously, but directing them toward suspected ghost locations increases the chance of making important discoveries. Displays show feeds from strategically placed cameras, and you can photograph evidence and record it in your journal.

Bob and Susan can also be controlled through chat. Twitch viewers can give them orders, and you can enable Steam friends to do the same through Steam chat. A second level of control lets Twitch viewers or Steam friends trigger scares and attacks.

Identify the ghost

Each ghost can trigger three types of evidence and has its own personality, preferences and quirks. The Trasgo throws objects more often than other ghosts, Ectophages interfere with electronics, and Shadows prefer darkness. Each ghost also has a distinctive ability or behavior that typically appears later in a mission. You can use these patterns to identify a ghost even when no direct evidence appears, though some events can happen with any ghost.

Survive the mission

Ghosts can enter a dangerous active state, but threats are not limited to those periods. You and the investigators under your command can die unexpectedly, so you must stay alert throughout the mission.

Between missions

You can rest and recover at your paranormal investigation firm's office between missions. There, you can read lore, make coffee and pet cats.