The Night Gym is a small retro-style indie horror experience with a VHS aesthetic where a late-night workout turns into a nightmare. You arrive at the gym after hours — just you and the machines. But something feels off. The lights flicker. The silence is heavy. You’re not alone...
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▼ Not recommended0 hrs
The Night Gym is a short micro budget horror walking simulator that takes place in, (yes you guessed it), a Gym... at Night. The game basically has you complete some basic workouts for 20 minutes and then get chased by a demon for 10 minutes. Its all over very quick in about a half hour.
+ The setting is original, the whole game takes place inside a gym.
- The graphics and assets are cheap looking, the horror atmosphere really isn't felt, the game does not feel special in any way. - There are no puzzles in the game, just a few "Workouts" where you push 2-3 buttons on the keyboard. One of the workouts I had to do over about 10 times because one of the buttons wasn't even registering properly. (Bugged) - The story is bland, unoriginal, not interesting at all. - The demon is poorly designed, looks cheap. - The game is not scary. - I glitched though a door that supposedly I needed a key for.
The game doesn't really have anything going for it, except for the fact that it is in an original setting, a gym. Overall: 3.5/10
Reviewing this game is going to make me look and sound like a complete and utter psychopath. Let me be clear, this game is beyond terrible in nearly every single way. Very poor English, practically nonexistent story, horrible gameplay, borderline unplayably buggy with controls that would make even the most skilled player weep. There is almost nothing good present in this game whatsoever. Abandon hope all ye who enter here, etc.
But in spite of that Night Gym is one of the few games I have played that is genuinely "so bad it's good" in a way that is hard for video games to accomplish compared to movies - and for that, it's honestly worth a dollar; particularly if you have friends willing to watch and laugh with you.
When you hear the title, what exactly do you think you're going to get? Whatever you're thinking, you're wrong. You get a game with godawful button prompt minigames that barely work, you get laughably repetitive and loud grunting sound effects, you get a gigajacked skeleton man pumping iron in the dark, peeping on you in the shower, and chilling in the hot tub like a spurned homoerotic lover, and you get to perform the revolutionary new exercise known as "Drink-Ups"- which is where your protein shake drink button glitches out and merges with your pull-up button prompt so that you drink and pull in tandem like the thirstiest and least safety-conscious bodybuilder of all time.
There is a brief moment where the game almost gets interesting and I thought it was leading to an interesting plot twist about your main character, but that was not the case at all and instead you find that the buff skeleton has placed his skull head over the head of a guy on the signage like a low-effort chad meme and you get chased by him as he screams specifically into your left ear before you leave the titular Night Gym and drive away, never to return to a gym at night again - and never to return to this ridiculous game.
...And I loved it. I laughed harder than I've laughed all year. For the love of god, if you love playing trash games, you will love Night Gym. It's pretty short, but so are most guys at the gym so it's fine.
