Midnight Dispatch — Free Playtest

🚧 Early gameplay prototype

The current graphics, interface, and audio are temporary and will change as development continues. This playtest focuses on gameplay: are the decisions interesting, the emergencies tense, and the shifts worth playing again?

Your feedback will help shape the game before we develop its final visual style.

Your drivers are outside. Something is at the door.

Midnight Dispatch is a single-player zombie-horror management prototype. Run an emergency delivery service during an outbreak—and get your couriers home alive.

• Inspect suspicious packages and choose delivery routes. • Respond to radio emergencies and verify visitors. • Defend two entrances with lights and shutters. • Upgrade your security room between shifts. • Supply shelters and recall your drivers before dawn.

This free playtest includes two nights, approximately 20–35 minutes depending on your pace.

HOW TO PLAY Download and extract the ZIP, then open MidnightDispatch.exe. Keep the .pck file beside it. No Godot installation is required.

Controls: mouse to interact, Space to pause, Esc for help, M to mute.

EARLY PROTOTYPE Graphics and audio are temporary. There is no mid-shift saving or controller support yet. Programming and writing were developed with generative AI assistance.

PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK Where did you get confused? When did you get bored? What was your most tense moment? Did you want to play another shift?

WHY I’M MAKING THIS

I’ve worked as a courier and in dispatch, and that experience inspired Midnight Dispatch. I wanted to take the pressure of coordinating deliveries, helping drivers, and handling unexpected problems—and imagine doing it during a zombie outbreak.

This is an early prototype, and I’d love your feedback as I develop it.