Night Delivery | 例外配達 is a Japanese horror adventure video game wherein you must deliver packages to a strange and creepy apartment complex. Developed by Chilla's Art, this 3D first-person indie game is a psychological horror experience that features some mature and shocking content alongside its classic horror elements.

Similar to the developer’s other games — such as Stigmatized Property | 事故物件 and The Caregiver | 終焉介護 — Night Delivery | 例外配達 is mostly a walking simulator as you will go back and forth to fetch items for NPCs. However, it still has enough of a creepy atmosphere to unnerve players as they aim to complete the endings.

What is the story of Night Delivery?

In Night Delivery | 例外配達, you play as a courier working the night shift. You first arrive at a gloomy-looking apartment complex and have quite the number of packages to deliver to the tenants’ doorsteps. By then, it’s a simple matter of going back and forth between the building and your truck to deliver them all. However, not all tenants are easy to please — and they all seem to be hiding something. 

True to the developer’s retro aesthetic, this game features VHS film effects that you can toggle on and off. This includes the appearance of screen trails, signals, tape noise, and screen jitter — which add to the overall unsettling vibe and psychological fear. The gameplay is easy, too, as you’ll mostly just walk around and interact with either NPCs or objects. This can sometimes make the game tedious to complete.

It’s short enough to be completed in one sitting — around 1-2 hours. There are two endings available and you can easily figure out how to achieve them. However, the main issue with this game is that it sometimes crashes or freezes, and due to its short length, it was never given a save feature. Thus, you have to redo your playthrough even if you were about to finish.

Quite similar to its fellow games

All in all, Night Delivery | 例外配達 is another great little horror game from Chilla’s Art for fans who like the Japanese retro horror aesthetic. While the gameplay can be a hassle at times—especially due to the lack of a save system—the overall atmosphere is comparable to that of the developer’s other titles and is short enough to sink your teeth in.