Sankan, a Co-op Horror Game Set at a Japanese Gas Station in 1999, Announced for PC

The pitch for Sankan, from solo developer Dany Rexton of YTKA Games, intrigued me. "You and up to two friends work the night shift at a mountain gas station in Japan, 1999," he told me via email. "The voice in your head names a customer you have to kill. Do it, and you clean up the blood and bury the body before dawn. Refuse the voice, and it starts hunting you." And then I took a look at the moody, somewhat creepy trailer, complete with the built-in nostalgia of its PS1-era graphics, and I wanted to know more.

Sankan is planned for release on PC in early 2027. And it's not just a single-player game. Up to three people can play together cooperatively. Everyone speaks in subtitles, as there is no dialogue. Rexton says there are "several" endings. Check out that trailer above, and take a look at the first screenshots in the gallery below.

"The people you met come back in later shifts. So does what you did," Rexton told me. Again, it's intriguing. If you'd like to follow along with development as the early 2027 release target nears, you can wishlist Sankan on Steam.