Shift At Midnight Doppelgangers: Every Ganger & Its Tells

Updated 2026-09-03 · Steam Shift At Midnight

Doppelgangers, or "gangers", are the creatures that walk into the Midnight Mart wearing a real person's face, and every one of them carries at least one detail that does not match the N.E.T. record. According to the community wiki, shift at midnight doppelgangers are beings of unknown origin — possibly born out of fear and other dark emotions — that have spread through the human population, which is why the Non-human Eradication Taskforce photographs everyone and files them in a database you can query at the register. The store computer, the customer's ID card, their answers, and later the Anomaly Lens and Emotiscope are the four places a ganger slips up. Below is every named doppelganger documented so far and the specific slip each one makes.

What a doppelganger actually is

The community wiki describes gangers as impostors of unknown origin that spread among people worldwide, prompting special organisations to hunt them. In-game that organisation is N.E.T., the Non-human Eradication Taskforce. N.E.T. issues identification cards, takes people's photos without asking, and writes distinguishing notes into the database — the same notes you throw back at a customer to see whether they flinch. Several customers grumble that this surveillance is invasive, which is a nice bit of world-building and also the reason your job exists at all.

The developer's own store text frames the loop plainly: work out whether a customer is a doppelganger by examining the ID, cross-checking details on the computer, and watching how they behave. Get it wrong and, per the community wiki, an unkilled ganger goes and alerts the Entity, which then comes to the store at the end of your shift.

Two things worth keeping straight:

A doppelganger's database entry is the real human's entry. The record is honest; the creature standing at your counter is not.
Being a doppelganger is not fixed per character. Community wiki infoboxes mark some customers as guaranteed gangers, some as randomised, and a large group as "randomised or guaranteed" depending on the shift.

The four places a ganger gives itself away

Player-facing detection stacks up over the 13 nights of story mode. The community wiki's shift table puts the Anomaly Lens at shift 9 and the Emotiscope at shift 11, so early nights are pure interrogation work.

Layer	What it checks	Typical failure
ID card	Photo, name, date of birth	Photo belongs to a different person; name tag misspelled
N.E.T. database	Status, occupation, physical notes	Says flight attendant when the file says plumber; claims a living spouse who is filed as deceased
Questioning	Head, clothes, limbs, movements, plus each database note	Answers that contradict the file or the day's Midnight News
Anomaly Lens and Emotiscope (shifts 9 and 11)	Visual anomaly, emotional state	Levitating, dancing, distorted face, or an emotion no human should be feeling

For the full checking routine and what happens when you shoot a human by mistake, see how to spot doppelgangers.

Every known doppelganger and its tell

Every row below comes from the individual doppelganger pages on the community wiki, which are player-written and in several cases still marked as stubs. Blank tells are genuinely blank on the wiki, not omissions here.

Doppelganger	Impersonates	Documented tell
Agnes Wells's	Agnes Wells	The file says Agnes is 3 years old; the customer is an elderly woman, and she has no eyes
Amelia Kramer's	Amelia Kramer	Does not show up in the Anomaly Camera at all
Andal Khan's	Andal Khan	One variant wears a name tag reading ADNAL rather than ANDAL
Anita Varma's	Anita Varma	Right hand severed and bleeding
Aria Romero's	Aria Romero	Face warps when viewed through the Anomaly Lens
Barry Aoki's	Barry Aoki	Far larger than the real Barry, and claims to have eaten magic beans
Brandon Keller's	Brandon Keller	Joe's Diner burned down on the night he says he finished his shift there
Cara Hastings'	Cara Hastings	Not documented yet on the community wiki
Clyde Dawson's	Clyde Dawson	Demo-era ganger; the wiki suspects it was replaced by The Dentist in the full release
Corey Bishop's	Corey Bishop	His lanyard picture is Danielle Bennett, not him
Dylan Pike's	Dylan Pike	The real Dylan is noted as always wearing shorts; this one wears long trousers and shrugs the question off
Elise Hart's	Elise Hart	Not documented yet on the community wiki
Emilia Carter's	Emilia Carter	Says she was studying at the library on the day the Midnight News reports it closed
Herbert's	A bear	It is a talking bear
Howard Elkins'	Howard Elkins	Not documented yet on the community wiki
Jade Sinclair's	Jade Sinclair	Bears no resemblance to her database photo
Judith Calhoun's	Judith Calhoun	Mentions a husband waiting at home; the real Judith is a widow
Julietta Granger's	Julietta Granger	Calls herself a flight attendant while her file lists plumber
Keith Hargreaves'	Keith Hargreaves	Believes he drives the bus
Kevin Larson's	Kevin Larson	Dances in the Anomaly Lens
Martha Collins'	Martha Collins	Gets her own children's names wrong
Maya Davila's	Maya Davila	Says she is back from a date with her husband, who is missing
Mia Cannon's	Mia Cannon	Tattoo pattern does not match the real Mia's
Nathan Calloway's	Nathan Calloway	The real Nathan is dead, and the photo on his N.E.T. card is actually Tommy Delgado's
Net Pongsak's	Net Pongsak	Always a ganger; floats off the ground and stares straight down the Anomaly Lens
Odessa Moyo's	Odessa Moyo	Tattoo sits on the wrist instead of the shoulder
Ramona Delgado's	Ramona Delgado	The Emotiscope reports a craving for human flesh
Ren Takahashi's	Ren Takahashi	Reads as a cat through the Anomaly Lens
Rudnick Wex's	Rudnick Wex	The real Rudnick is deceased, and this one bends its body in ways a person cannot
The Dentist's	Bill Dawson	Roughly 8 feet tall, cracked skin, bandaged hands, hanging broken jaw
Tomas Vega's	Tomas Vega	The burn scar on his right wrist is missing
Tommy Delgado's	Tommy Delgado	Shopping for his sister Catherine; look her up and she is dead
Travis Dunn's	Travis Dunn	Speaks without the real Travis's lisp
Vivien Marrow's	Vivien Marrow	Jumpscares you if you look at her through the Anomaly Lens
Wade Callahan's	Wade Callahan	Through the Anomaly Lens he reads as a parasitic mass of flesh
Youssef Morad's	Youssef Morad	Completely different hair from the file photo

Names on this list overlap heavily with the customers roster, since a ganger and its victim share one database page.

Guaranteed versus randomised

Community wiki infoboxes tag each customer's species field. Three broad groups exist:

Group	Meaning	Examples
Guaranteed doppelganger	If they appear, they are never human	Brandon Keller, Cara Hastings, Crystal Compton, Dave Buster, Dylan Pike, Elise Hart, Emilia Carter, Grace Harper, Greta Darling, Howard Elkins, Jade Sinclair, Maya Davila, Net Pongsak, Ramona Delgado, Rudnick Wex, Vivien Marrow
Randomised	Rolls human or ganger	Andal Khan, Aria Romero, Baron Dean, Bronte Phelps, Corey Bishop, Keith Hargreaves, Natasha Lin, Travis Dunn, Youssef Morad
Randomised or guaranteed by context	Fixed on scripted nights, a coin flip otherwise	Dia Nuur, Frank Park, Frankie Bell, Imani Green, Jin Seo, John Smith, Labron Knight, Misaki Ono, Molly Foster, Nico Sethi, Nolan Sterling, Odessa Moyo, Ren Takahashi, Samir Haddad, Tiana King, Tomas Vega, Tony Marconi, Trey Banks, Troy Howes, Yvonne Johnson

One curiosity the wiki flags: Dmitri Markou is described as the only customer whose species was switched to guaranteed doppelganger, and that change is noted as temporary. Treat this whole section as community-tracked and subject to patching — the developer added 15 customers on 20 August 2026 and another 30 on 1 September 2026, so the roster is still growing.

Doppelgangers that are not customers

Not every ganger queues at the register. The community wiki lists several that exist purely as threats, which overlap with the wider monsters roster.

Ganger	Where it turns up	Notes
Car Doppelganger	Street beside the Midnight Mart, debuting on shift 1	Baits you toward its car, then chases; it also locks your gun, and a hit costs 12 health. Its only listed weakness is getting away from it successfully
Elongated Doppelganger	Appears after the generator is restarted	Wears the player's shape, stretched; the wiki guesses the design nods to SCP-3008
Player's Doppelganger	Copies the player	Listed as a ganger wearing your own likeness; the wiki's roster table records no database photo for it
The Dentist	Stalks the Midnight Mart across story mode	Impersonates Bill Dawson; N.E.T. broadcast material tells witnesses not to hide or look back, just run

The Dentist's victim list on the wiki includes Ryan Holt on shift 4, Vanessa McCree on shift 9, the Bathroom Guy on shift 12, and Clyde Dawson depending on your route.

Which nights the story gangers arrive

The community wiki's customer table pins a handful of doppelgangers to fixed nights in story mode.

Night	Doppelgangers listed
Shift 1	Nathan Calloway's, Julietta Granger's
Shift 2	Brandon Keller's, guaranteed when the burnt-down-diner news article is pinned to the notice board
Shift 3	Judith Calhoun's, Tommy Delgado's
Shift 3 in the demo only	Clyde Dawson's, which the wiki believes was swapped out for The Dentist's Doppelganger once the full release landed
Shift 7	Louisa Mari's

Two caveats on that table. First, the wiki contradicts itself over Judith: her own doppelganger page puts her on the 3rd night, while the Shifts page's roster for that night names Tommy Delgado's ganger and never mentions her. Second, Jade Sinclair's doppelganger is tagged a guaranteed ganger but no page gives it a night, so its shift is not confirmed yet.

Later shifts stop naming gangers directly and instead unlock detection gear, so from shift 9 onward the answer comes from the Anomaly Lens rather than a fixed script. Julietta Granger's doppelganger is also listed as a possible Endless Mode encounter, which fits the developer's stated plan to keep adding customers, traps and detection methods to that mode.

If you are hunting the one customer everybody searches for by name, Norbert has his own page. For the checking routine itself, go to how to spot doppelgangers.

Sources and last check

Checked on 3 September 2026. The doppelganger roster, every tell in the tables above, the guaranteed-versus-randomised tags, the shift assignments and the Car, Elongated, Player and Dentist entries all come from the Shift At Midnight community wiki — the Doppelgangers, Customers, Shifts, N.E.T. and Car Doppelganger pages plus the individual doppelganger pages — which is written and maintained by players, not by the developer, and several of those pages are still marked incomplete. The customer counts added on 20 August and 1 September 2026 and the description of the ID-and-computer checking loop come from Bun Muen's official Steam announcements, which take priority wherever they disagree with the wiki. Where a doppelganger's tell is listed as not documented, the community wiki simply left that field empty.