Player reviews: 84% positive601 reviews
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Runs on: Windows
Price: US$19.99

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2024 · Adult · Adult comic

Night Shift Nurses

A washed-up mad doctor is hired back by a devious former test subject and asked to twist her hospital into a corrupt donation mill. Will he seize this second chance to practice his own vision of "science," or will his many failings drag him down once again in this pseudo-medical visual novel?

Released: 16 December 2024
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Adult Adult comic Adventure Harem Simulation Visual novel Yaoi
Developers: —
Publishers: Shiravune
Modes: Single-player
Country: Japan
Languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Japanese
Time to beat: 11hmain story12hcompletionist

About

Night Shift Nurses is the North American localization of Yakin Byōtō (夜勤病棟), a Japanese OVA series adapted by Discovery from the visual novel of the same name. It was formerly licensed by Anime 18, and now by Critical Mass Video. The series is particularly notorious for its explicit depictions of rape, necrophilia, sadomasochism, and paraphilia.

›Story

Ryuji Hirasaka. A depraved doctor with severe personality issues. Despite his genius, he has no interest in anything but humiliating and toying with other people, whom he views as nothing more than subjects to use for his experiments.

One day, Hirasaka receives a request to work on a temporary basis at St. Juliana Hospital. Waiting there for him is one of his former victims—Narumi Jinguji.

Narumi makes Hirasaka an unexpected proposal. Her goal is to create the world's most corrupt hospital ward, and she wants Hirasaka’s help to mold the perfect staff for it.

Hirasaka finds himself perplexed by such an extraordinary proposal. However, the chance to finally realize his twisted ambitions is a temptation he cannot resist. Will St. Juliana Hospital become a den of mad science, or will Hirasaka's incompetence and unlikability spell the end for the Night Shift before it even begins?

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Story

Night Shift Nurses, as was originally written for the game, takes place in an undisclosed area of Japan, mainly at the fictional St. Juliana Hospital. A majority of the game is portrayed on campus with minor visits to the character's residences and surrounding towns.

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Reception

As a result of the unrestrained content of the series, Night Shift Nurses is usually regarded as one of, if not the most graphic hentai ever released. Several minutes of particularly unruly scenes were even banned from North American releases. Industry aggregator Mania.com gave the series an F, citing that although the animation is "clean" and "slick", the quantity of edits made for the American release yields it one that "[...]I in no way [can] recommend."