a pet shop after dark, the horror point-and-click adventure from developer npckc and publisher Viridian Software, is out now on Xbox. The job sounds simple enough: water the plants, feed the pets and stay the night. There is just one thing. Do not, under any circumstances, turn off the lights.
Those interactions have been reworked for Xbox through an in-game virtual desktop, with new content and additional lore for returning players to uncover. You explore a mysterious shop, feed pets you cannot see, water plants that are probably not just plants, and poke at point-and-click puzzles. The Xbox Store also notes that crashes are intentional, which is not the usual thing you want to read after clocking in for a night shift.
The game was a finalist for the Innovation Award and won the WINGS Spotlight at BIG Festival gamescom latam.
It is an Xbox Play Anywhere title, playable on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and Xbox on PC, and it is optimised for Xbox Series X|S. You can pick it up on the Xbox Store.
