Late Shift

Late Shift drops mathematics student Matt into a London heist he never agreed to, then asks you to make every choice that decides whether he gets out of it. The whole production runs as live-action FMV shot in full HD, with no pauses and no looping footage - decisions arrive in real time as the film keeps rolling.

More than 180 decision points fork the story between seven possible endings. Tiny moments early can reroute the entire third act, and the consequences ripple through subsequent scenes rather than fading after a single beat.

The pedigree is uncommon for the genre. Tobias Weber directs from a script by Michael R. Johnson, who wrote the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film, with Joe Sowerbutts, Haruka Abe and Richard Durden anchoring the cast. The result reads more like an interactive thriller film than a game with cutscenes.