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Watch trailer on Steam ↗Night Record: Thin Walls
Althera Studio · Published by Althera Studio · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 81% positive (72 reviews)
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Vadim, a maintenance worker in a decaying post-Soviet apartment, leaves town to care for his sick mother, asking his wife to take over his duties. As she settles into the routine, the building begins to feel off quiet in all the wrong ways.
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About this game
Night Record: Thin Walls is a first-person psychological horror game set in a post-Soviet apartment building where everyday routine slowly turns into something unsettling.
Story
In Night Record: Thin Walls, a routine job in a quiet post-Soviet apartment building takes an unexpected turn when Vadim is forced to leave, passing his duties to his wife, Elvira. As Elvira takes over his role, she continues the daily work alone. At first, everything feels normal routine tasks, familiar residents, ordinary days.
But soon, things begin to feel different in ways that are hard to explain. The building no longer feels the same. Subtle details start to shift. Something about the place feels… off.
And what begins as solitude slowly turns into something far more unsettling.
In a place where every sound travels through thin walls, being alone is never truly safe.
Key Features
Immersive post-Soviet apartment atmosphere.
Photo-realistic visual style.
VHS film aesthetic.
First-person psychological horror experience.
Slow-burn tension with subtle environmental shifts.
Short, focused narrative experience.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core™ i5-6600K or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4GB VRAM) or AMD equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: Intel Core™ i5-10600K Processor or higher
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 (6GB VRAM) or AMD equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: Yes
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Night Record: A Major Update and a Surprise
After a long silence, we are finally ready to share the big update from our development side with you.There was a reason for that silence. Following the demo, and guided by the feedback we received from you, our valued players, we took Night Record into a full restoration. In some places we rebuilt it from the ground up, in others we reworked it down to the finest detail. All of it was done to create a stronger, more immersive, and truly "felt" horror experience for you.During this process we touched almost every corner of the game: we deepened the narrative, rebuilt the atmosphere from scratch, added touches that make the fear far more visceral, and made sure your journey is no longer bound to a single path.And the big surprise…The game we have been working on for so long is preparing to launch on September 17.Get ready to live that night with us. Don't forget to add Night Record to your wishlist and be there with us the moment it launches.Enjoy the game… and good luck. You are going to need it.Development UpdatesWe would like to share the work we have done since the demo in a bit more detail. Each of the sections below is the result of months of rebuilding.Smoother and More Engaging GameplayOne of the common impressions we noticed among players who tried the demo was that the gameplay sometimes fell into dull, repetitive, and drawn out stretches (such as taking a long walk from one place to another). We took this feedback seriously and worked to remove those moments. We have now crafted a gameplay experience that flows far more smoothly and keeps you drawn into the story without ever getting bored.New Dialogue Rewritten for the NarrativeWe reviewed the dialogue from start to finish and rewrote it to sit better with the game's narrative, pacing, and atmosphere. The characters' conversations are now far more integrated with the story; every line is written to feed the tension of the moment you are in and the unsettling nature of the world. The flow, rhythm, and timi...Read full article on Community Announcements (Althera Studio)Community & EventsOfficial
Almost 1,000 Wishlists in One Week — Demo Coming to Steam Next Fest!
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️ Nearly 1,000 Wishlists in a Week — Thank You We're a small indie team. Seeing this much support in just seven days is something we genuinely struggle to put into words. Every wishlist, every share, every comment reached us. Thank you for choosing to step — alongside us — into the darkness NIGHT RECORD: THIN WALLS is trying to tell. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📼 The Demo Is Coming to Steam Next Fest There's one more piece of news we've been waiting to share: The NIGHT RECORD: THIN WALLS playable demo will be featured at the upcoming Steam Next Fest. With the demo, you'll step directly into the game's atmosphere for the first time: 🚪 Dim Soviet-era lamps and aged, peeling wallpaper 🔊 Sounds seeping through thin walls — origin unclear 👁️ Memories you cannot remember the source of 📺 A television still hissing with static, long after the broadcast should have ended 🕰️ A pendulum wall clock that stopped years ago, yet still ticks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Let's Reach the Next Milestone Together Three things you can do: ✦ If you haven't yet — wishlist the game. It's the single most valuable support an indie horror title can receive on Steam. ✦ Follow the page so you're notified the moment the demo goes live. ✦ Share it with a friend who loves psychological horror — this genre shines when it reaches the right person. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌑 Stay Close New devlogs, atmospheric visuals, and demo updates are on the way. Keep walking these dark corridors with us. 🌐 altheragames.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Heartfelt thanks — for being here. — Althera GamesRead full article on Community Announcements (Althera Studio)
