If you’re not familiar with Night of the Consumers, it’s an indie horror game about working in a supermarket and having to deal with people demanding things of you every two seconds. It’s ok, that’s got my heart rate going too. Anyaway, it looks like the game’s now locked in a full release date.

While a work-in-progress version of the game has been avilable via Itch.io since 2020 – it was actually part of a bundle For racial justice And equality hosted by the platform that year – if you’ve visited its Steam page in recent years, you’ll have found that its release is still listed as “coming soon”.

Well, it now seems that’s set to change soon, with solo developer Germfood having tweeted “Night of the Consumers (full game) will release on October 28”, and followed it up with a gag about it having taken them four years to finish the game. So, while they haven’t provided any more details as of yet, it sounds like you’ll be able to grab the full experience with all of the “nights” – those are levels by the looks of it – Germfood had in mind to make up its story.

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