Retro horror game Night Plane turns flight attendant duties into a nightmare
Night Plane is a retro-style indie horror game in which players work as a flight attendant on a journey that turns from routine service into a nightmarish cycle of airport and aircraft horrors. Its mix of workplace simulation, unsettling imagery and dry humour makes it an absorbing example of games using horror to explore their own conventions.
Developed by New Zealand-based Liquid Static Studio, the game uses glitchy, low-poly visuals inspired by the original PlayStation era. Players check passengers, serve food and drink, and confront demons disguised as people as strange events escalate; a run takes about four to five hours, with later playthroughs revealing extra quests and endings. It costs less than £10.
In short
- A flight attendant job becomes a surreal horror ordeal.
- Retro visuals and dark humour fuel the unease.
- A four to five-hour game offers more on repeat runs.
Explained simply
Flight attendants look after passengers and help keep a flight running, from boarding and serving food to responding when problems arise. Horror games often turn familiar places and routines into sources of fear, using unsettling images and sudden changes to make ordinary tasks feel unsafe.
Night Plane is an independent game made by New Zealand-based Liquid Static Studio. It uses blocky, glitchy graphics inspired by early PlayStation games, and mixes flight attendant tasks with strange encounters on an aircraft and at airports. Players meet demons disguised as passengers as events grow more disturbing.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Night Plane review – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror game”.