A Creepy Radio Tuning Game & Push-Your-Luck Night Drive

Nightband is a creepy radio game set on a desert highway at 3 a.m. You drive a 1974 radio van through the dark, and the only thing you control is the dial. Drag your thumb across the AM band — 530 to 1700 kHz — and hold a drifting signal for 1.2 seconds to catch it. Every signal is a real orphaned broadcast: a last call nobody heard, a forecast for a town that does not exist. Catching one is taking attendance. But catch the same frequency twice and you close a loop — and something in the static can trace an answer straight back to your dial. It is a radio dial game, a push your luck game, and an atmospheric horror game with no jumpscares, all at once. Offline, no account, no ads.

What it is:

One-thumb frequency tuning — the van drives itself; you are the radio
The duplicate rule — once is listening, twice is answering, and a closed loop ends the night in a flood of static
Push your luck — pull over and bank, or drive one more leg for a bigger multiplier and rarer signals
Collect radio signals — six families across 118 catchable frequencies, all pinned on the Frequency Atlas
A voiced four-season serial in the noise — an audio drama you play. Season 1 is free forever
The Daily Night — a daily challenge that works offline, one deterministic desert per day, identical for everyone on Earth
100% offline — no wifi, no account, no server, no ads; nothing leaves your phone

Coming soon to the App Store & Google Play.

Nightband gameplay — the drive screen at night: the radio van on the desert highway, two glowing signal-wisps drifting with their frequencies printed beside them, and the amber needle mid-capture on the phosphor-green band strip, with the pot, leg, multiplier and duplicate odds in the HUD

How It Works

📻 The Dial Is the Whole Game

The right of the screen is a phosphor-green frequency ruler, 530 kHz to 1700 kHz, with an amber needle. Drag anywhere to tune. The dial thickens as you near a signal, and detents tick every 10 kHz, exactly like the real AM grid. Hold within ±6 kHz for 1.2 seconds and the noise resolves into a voice.

⚡ Once Is Listening. Twice Is Answering.

Every frequency you catch leaves a scar on the dial. Catch that same frequency again and you complete a circuit — a closed loop, with your receiver as the fixed node. Reading your own scars under pressure is the entire skill. Get it wrong and the static blooms across the desert like frost on glass.

🛞 Bank It, or Drive One More Leg

Rest stops come every 40–50 seconds. Pull over and the pot is safe forever. Drive on and the multiplier climbs, the band skews toward rarer signals — and the odds that the next one is a duplicate climb with it. Bust, and the whole unbanked pot is gone. No lives. No revives. Ever.

🎙️ A Voice in the Noise

Between the numbers, a transmission finds you — 20 to 40 seconds of an overnight AM host talking to an audience he cannot prove exists. Four seasons of it, told in the register of a radio show. Season 1, all seven transmissions, is free forever, and it ends on the best cliffhanger in the show.

🗺️ The Frequency Atlas

Six families across 118 catchable frequencies — Ghost Ads, Weather From Nowhere, Hymnals, Lost DJs, Clear-Channel Ghosts and Numbers Stations. Every catch lights a pin, forever. Complete a family and it plays you a sign-off you will hear exactly once.

🌙 The Daily Night

One shared, deterministic desert per calendar day, generated from the date itself and identical for everyone alive tonight. One scored attempt, a leaderboard, and an emoji grid you can paste straight into a chat. It runs with no wifi, like everything else here.

A Look Inside

Nightband's static flood — the death choreography: white noise blooming outward from the fatal frequency across the dial and the desert, like frost growing on glass, after the player caught the same frequency twice — The static flood — you closed the loop

Nightband title screen — the radio van parked at a desert pull-out under a crescent moon, with a streak counter, lifetime uniques, best pot, and the DRIVE and DAILY NIGHT buttons — The night band — the AM band after dark

Nightband's Frequency Atlas — the full 530 to 1700 kHz band as a vertical poster with 35 of 118 frequencies lit as coloured pins, plus per-family completion meters for all six signal families — The Frequency Atlas — collect radio signals

Nightband's Daily Night screen — tonight's deterministic seed, a forecast card written in the Weather From Nowhere voice, band conditions, and a single START THE NIGHT button — The Daily Night — one seed, one Earth

Nightband's unlock screen — a single $9.99 one-time purchase unlocking Seasons 2 to 4, every premium van livery and dial skin, and Logbook search, with Seasons 3 and 4 included free as they release. No subscription — One purchase, once — never a subscription

Made for the 3 A.M. Crowd

🌵 The Atmospheric Horror Fan

Dread and melancholy, never gore — no jumpscares, no screamers
A desert horror game about loneliness at broadcast scale
Liminal spaces, numbers stations, creepypasta and found-signal lore

🎲 The Push-Your-Luck Player

A pure bank-or-push spine — every run is one decision, over and over
Rising duplicate odds against a decelerating multiplier ladder
Two-to-four-minute runs that each end in a story you will tell someone

🔌 The Offline Player

An offline horror game — no wifi required, built for bed at 3 a.m.
No account, no ads, nothing leaves the phone
A whole free season and the complete arcade loop before you consider paying

Unlock Nightband

The complete arcade loop, the Daily Night, and all seven transmissions of Season 1 are free forever. There is exactly one thing to buy, it costs $9.99 once, and there is nothing else — no subscription, no packs, no consumables, no ads. Nothing sold affects gameplay, scoring, difficulty, or the Daily Night.

One-time purchase · the only one

All-Access

$9.99 once

Seasons 2, 3 and 4 — 22 more transmissions, and one real answer. Plus every premium van livery and dial skin, Logbook transcript search, Atlas filters, and run-history stats.

Free forever

The Whole Game

$0 always

Every mechanic, all six signal families, unlimited runs, the Daily Night and leaderboards, the base Atlas, share cards — and all of Season 1.

Never sold

Accessibility

$0 always

Colourblind dial modes (the duplicate tell re-encoded as a shape, never colour alone), always-on captions, audio and haptic mixers, text size. Free, forever.

Prices may vary by region and are shown in the app at the time of purchase. All-Access is a non-consumable one-time purchase — there is no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no free trial, because free Season 1 is the trial. The price never changes, and Seasons 3 & 4 ship to owners as free updates when they release — that promise is printed on the paywall and honoured forever. Purchases restore on a new device with Restore Purchases. See our Terms and EULA for full purchase details.

Privacy First — Your Save Stays on the Phone

Nightband is built local-first. Here's exactly how it works:

No account, no cloud, no server. You don't sign up or log in. There is no backend that receives your progress — nothing to leak and nothing to fail on an update or a new phone.
Your save never leaves the device. Your caught frequencies, the transmissions you have heard, your streak, records and settings live only in a small local file on your phone.
The game is fully offline. Every signal, every transmission, and all four seasons ship inside the app. Even the Daily Night is generated from the date itself, on-device — there is no network requirement to play.
Every season is already on your phone. The unlock is a local entitlement check, not a download. Nothing is streamed, and nothing phones home to decide what you may hear.
One billing helper. The only data that ever leaves your phone is purchase data, handled by Apple, Google and RevenueCat to validate and restore your optional one-time purchase. They never receive your gameplay. Anonymous crash and usage diagnostics help us fix bugs, and are never linked to you.

For complete details, see our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and EULA.