Another Night at the Archive

What is Another Night at the Archive?

You are the new hire for the night shift at the dingy old archive in your city. But it turns out that there is information stored here that you can find nowhere else.

You are the new hire for the night shift at the dingy old archive in your city. But it turns out that there is information stored here that you can find nowhere else. So every couple of nights, you get a call by some weirdo government agent or private ghost hunter to find some very specific information for some very specific and weird questions they have. Using the old card catalog, you look up names, cities, buildings and events to slowly piece together mysterious and horrifying tales of weirdness by looking at various newspaper clippings, old flyers, book pages, webpage print-outs and more, all stored in this archive, while the wind outside is howling and the old lightbulbs flicker. ALTHOUGH YOU CAN PLAY IT ONLINE, I STILL RECOMMEND STRONGLY THAT YOU DOWNLOAD THE GAME. SOME UNFIXABLE BUGS ONLY OCCUR IN THE BROWSER VERSION. Heavily inspired by games such as “Return of the Obra-Dinn” or

Another Night at the Archive controls

The developer does not list specific controls on the game page. Click the play frame above and try the keyboard, mouse, or touch; most jam games show their controls on the first screen.

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