Sinister Night News

Hello everyone, great to see you again. We have shared some of the game scenes and character designs from SINISTER NIGHT in our previous updates. Since then, we have received lots of responses and feedback. We would like to thank you all for your support towards our team and every comment is greatly appreciated.

Today, we would like to share the unique gameplay of SINISTER NIGHT and some behind-the-scene stories of this thrilling game.

[h3]Gameplay Settings[/h3]

SINISTER NIGHT is based on a series of mysterious incidents in an old Gnostic school. Players play the role of streamers. There are eight streamers and they enter this abandoned school to shoot a horror reality show. Two of them are possessed by the nun Dorothy and they lie to deceive and split the team in order to kill them all. The other six streamers, as survivors, need to complete rituals within a limited time to get out alive.



[h3]Immersive Horror Experience[/h3]

We’re aimed at designing a game that gives players an immersive horror experience. In order to create an atmosphere full of tension and suspense, we use sophisticated modeling, horror elements and fragmented narrative. What’s more, our gameplay fuses social deduction with psychological horror to further the experience of paranoia and mistrust.

To be honest, I was killed for many times by my so-called teammates during alpha test. Trust me, it is very horrifying.

In the game, players witness lots of supernatural incidents such as the door is suddenly closed, the phone is ringing oddly. After a series of mental torture, players realize that they need to escape from here as soon as possible. Players need complete 6 rounds of rituals, however, the possessed is also mixed in the team to destroy the ritual. Therefore, for survivors, it is necessary to pay attention to the movements and speeches made by each player, complete the rituals as soon as possible or find out the possessed among you; for the possessed, it is important to hide and wait for opportunities to kill.



[h3]More Fun Than Mafia[/h3]

Our team members are obsessed with Mafia, so we hope to keep the fun of social deduction. If you are familiar with Mafia, you are ready for SINISTER NIGHT. We also have perfect equipment and inventory system designed to enrich the game experience. For example, EMF is used to detect wraiths to survive, and Satan’s Blood is used to start massacre.



[h3]Behind The Scene[/h3]

During alpha test, the haunting wraiths still manage to spook everyone even if we considered ourselves are very experienced in the game. Some of them even fall off their chairs! Not just for that, some creative coworkers always like to come up with crazy ideas and hit their teammates with a wooden bat! Feel free to explore more fun ideas when the game is launched!

Stay tuned! SINISTER NIGHT will be released soon! Add it to your steam wishlist now if you're interested in this game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1979460/_/

If you have any suggestions for our game, feel free to contact us at the following address.

Twitter：https://twitter.com/sinister_game
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCun1f9-T2qcHl9T0AhDIeDQ/featured
Email：[email protected]

Thank you for your support！

Z-star studio

Hello everyone! In the last update, we shared an introduction of Dorothy The Nun. Today, we would like to introduce another character, Betty. Hope you will love Betty as much as we do.

As an orphan in the church school, she was sensitive and delicate. Like many of her classmates, she did not get much family care in her childhood. Fortunately, while she was growing up, Dorothy, the gentle and kind nun, accompanied her. She was like a big sister to her and took good care of her. She was Betty’s favorite person in the school. If Dorothy was unhappy, Betty would give her the most beautiful flowers only to cheer her up.

However, things changed and people changed. The relationship between Betty and Dorothy was doomed. Out of trust and respect for Dorothy, Betty helped her deliver the Holy Water to the priest. It turned out that the holy water was fake, as a consequence of which, people who participated in the sacrifice were cursed. Their skin began to fester, and their teeth began to fall out as well as their hair. Betty's kindness turned into a tragedy.

"The Holy Water is fine! Dorothy handed it to me herself." Betty said firmly.

"I'm sorry, Betty. I gave you the Holy Water myself. Why did it go wrong when you gave it to the priest?" Dorothy's response was so cold.



Rumors were saying that Betty was Satan's child. Being an outsider and an orphan became her original sin at this moment, and Dorothy, her beloved sister, also didn't trust her. In the end, Betty was burned alive on the altar.

Betty was so desperate that she became a wraith. She would never relate the person who cared about her so much to the person who killed her.



Betty is hiding somewhere in the school, so stay alert, or Betty will jump at you when least expected.



People see Betty as a terrifying wraith, but all she wants to say is that, she is innocent and she hopes everyone can trust her. The best proof is that she never hurt anyone who enters the school.


Add it to your steam wishlist now if you're interested in this game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1979460/_/

If you have any suggestions for our game, feel free to contact us at the following address.

Twitter：https://twitter.com/sinister_game
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCun1f9-T2qcHl9T0AhDIeDQ/featured
Email：[email protected]

Thank you for your support！

Z-star studio

Today, we’d like to introduce one of the most important characters in Sinister Night to you - Dorothy, the Nun.

Originally, Dorothy means God's gift. She was the best and most helpful nun this Gnostic church school. However,she was chosen to be the most brutal killer.

She gradually became distorted and depraved. She believed that destroying the body helped everyone escape from imprisonment and she was liberating them from the cage. With the ability of shapeshifting , Dorothy took advantage of everyone's trust in her and framed the blame on others many times. For a long time, the school was full of mutual suspicion. People began to hurt and kill each other, venting their emotions like beasts.

Finally, the time came. Dorothy, as the scariest ghost nun, brought the massacre to a climax.

See pictures below for more detailed design ideas.

Art Design Ideas
Originally, we intended to design a monster from hell, which was influenced by demons. Considering the game features and gameplay, we decided that the character is in human form, and we also incorporated hellish elements into the design.



As the worldview developed, we added religious backgrounds to the character and still keeped the hellish vibe. Therefore, we tried different directions during the process.



After much discussion, we decided that the character is a young nun, which is a symbolic identity resonating with culture. To make her look more menacing and aggressive, we added sharpness to the outer silhouette and increase the overall instability within the design range.



In the final draft, her face is shackled and severely distorted,which is more in line with the painful setting of the character'sbewitching control. She is dressed in a black nun dress, and her hat is crowned with spikes, signaling her danger. Body horror elements are added to her body parts, and torture devices also exacerbate her suffering, which increases the horror vibe and the tension of jumpscare.



Skill Design Ideas
As a main character, Dorothy has magical powers inside her.

In the original setting, Dorothy moves at a constant speed in the Crimson Dream, which greatly limits Dorothy's hunting actions.

So we optimized Dorothy's movement speed. Now she can move faster to the survivors to kill them in the dream, and after the dream ends, she can choose to return to her original position quickly to cover herself. This not only increases the excitement of the game, but also exacerbates the distrust and mutual suspicion between players.



Add it to your steam wishlist now if you're interested in this game.Thank you all for your support and concern again.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1979460/_/

Twitter：https://twitter.com/sinister_game
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCun1f9-T2qcHl9T0AhDIeDQ/featured
Email：[email protected]

Thank you for your support

Z-star studio

Hi friends! We have received many inquiries and messages of support since last update. Thank you for all your interest in our game！ːsteamhappyː

There're lots of wonderful game settings we want to share with you during the process of developing the game. We're very excited to show you an early look at some magnificent moments from our game. Hope you like it! ːsteammockingː

Add it to your steam wishlist now if you're interested in this game!



Sinister Night is the first game we'll release, We're more than happy to hear your feedback. If you have any suggestions for our game, feel free to contact us at the following address.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1979460/_/

Twitter：https://twitter.com/sinister_game
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCun1f9-T2qcHl9T0AhDIeDQ/featured
Email：[email protected]

Thank you for your support

Z-star studio

Hello everyone,

Regarding the release date of our newest game Sinister Night, we have important news we'd like to share with you. We are sorry to inform you that, in order to provide a better gaming experience, we decided to postpone our launch plan. Sinister Night won't be available today.

Our team are dedicated to present a more immersive gaming world to our players. We are currently working in full speed to finish polishing our game. The official version will be launched as soon as possible, and we hope you will enjoy it as we do.

In the following weeks, we will continue to release more contents to keep you updated on progress. We are really looking forward to seeing you in our game. If you have any feedback on our game, please feel free to contact us through the following social media pages. We are more than happy to hear from you and thank you for all your support sincerely.

Z-star studio

Twitter：https://twitter.com/sinister_game
Youtube：https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCun1f9-T2qcHl9T0AhDIeDQ/featured
Email：[email protected]