Shift At Midnight Mods: Install, More Players & Best Picks

Updated 2026-09-03 · Steam Shift At Midnight

Shift At Midnight mods live on Thunderstore, and nearly all need one dependency: the BepInEx 6 IL2CPP pack, which a mod manager such as r2modman, Gale or the Thunderstore Mod Manager installs for you. The popular ones raise the lobby cap past the game's own six players; the rest add text chat, pings, voice sliders, disguises, emotes and a harsher difficulty. All of it is community-made: the developer's patch notes and store page never mention official mod support or tools, so treat everything here as unofficial.

At the 3 September 2026 check the community carried 18 game-specific packages plus the loader and manager packages they need; totals below were recorded that day.

Step one: BepInEx 6 IL2CPP

This is a Unity IL2CPP x64 game, so the framework it needs is BepInEx/BepInExPack_IL2CPP 6.0.755, last updated 23 March 2026, a preconfigured pack whose bundled config turns on the console and fuller logging. Every mod below depends on it except ShiftLobbyPlus, which lists MelonLoader 0.7.3 instead and says a manager pulls that loader in itself.

Manually, the pack says to unpack it outside the game folder, move its contents beside the game executable and launch once. Mod DLLs then go in BepInEx/plugins/.

Step two: pick a mod manager

A manager resolves the BepInEx dependency, keeps modded and vanilla profiles apart, and rolls a mod back when a patch breaks it.

Manager	Version	Downloads	Notes
r2modman (ebkr)	3.2.19	10,423,624	Profiles, config editing, auto-updates; Windows, Flatpak and AppImage builds
Gale Mod Manager (Kesomannen)	1.22.2	516,088	Lightweight, config editor, profile syncing
Thunderstore Mod Manager	n/a	n/a	The official app, listed on nearly every mod page

Both warn about copycat sites: r2modman is genuine only from Thunderstore or the ebkr GitHub releases, Gale only from Thunderstore or Kesomannen's repository. Create a profile, hit Install with Mod Manager, then launch from the manager.

More players: four mods compared

The game launched on 22 July 2026 capped at three players, and the day-one patch of 23 July added a six-player lobby option while noting the game was designed and marketed around three. Several mods shipped on or before that day, which is why their pages still call the vanilla limit three. The patch notes win: six is the stock maximum and mods go beyond it.

Mod	Author	Version	Default	Range	Who installs it	Loader
ShiftMorePlayers	TNTcraftHIM	1.4.0	10	2 to 250	Host on Steam; everyone on Xbox and Game Pass	BepInEx 6 IL2CPP
MoreShiftAtMidnightPlayers	Decahedron_Studios	1.0.2	32	2 to 99	Host only; friends install nothing	BepInEx 6 IL2CPP
ShiftAtMidnightMorePlayers	Fuzz	1.0.3	Menu options 1, 2, 3, 8, 16	n/a	Not confirmed yet	BepInEx 6 IL2CPP
ShiftLobbyPlus	anthropic	1.2.0	8	1 to 243	Host only	MelonLoader 0.7.3

Fuzz's page is the one open question here: it says the authors were still testing whether the host alone or the whole lobby needs the mod, so that scope is not confirmed yet, and their beta advice is simply that everyone run the same version. Two pages document a ceiling no config value fixes. ShiftMorePlayers states that interactable objects use a fixed ten-slot networked array, so the eleventh player onward may not be able to interact, and that monster detection and some scripted spawns misbehave in large groups; its author recommends 10 and calls 250 theoretical, not playable. Fuzz is franker: stable to six, 8 not guaranteed, 16 experimental.

That puts the sensible modded range at 6 to 10 players. See multiplayer for stock lobbies and proximity chat, and crossplay for the store split: ShiftMorePlayers ships one adaptive DLL, but on Xbox and Game Pass everyone must install it, since that session template holds three.

SatmLanIp instead adds a LAN option, connecting over a local network or VPN address rather than Photon's cloud. Both sides must install it and match Steam builds, and its page warns the room port has no authentication, so keep it off the open internet.

Every Shift At Midnight mod on Thunderstore

Package	Author	Version	Downloads	What it does	Who needs it
ShiftMorePlayers	TNTcraftHIM	1.4.0	2,653	Cap 250, default 10	Host (Steam)
ShiftAtMidnightMorePlayers	Fuzz	1.0.3	1,679	Adds 8 and 16 player options	Not confirmed yet
ModSettingsMenu	Ice_Box_Studio_SAM	1.1.0	1,618	In-game settings screen for compatible mods	Per mod
ShiftAtMidnightLocalizationAPI	Ice_Box_Studio_SAM	1.0.0	1,563	Multi-language support library	Dependency only
MoreShiftAtMidnightPlayers	Decahedron_Studios	1.0.2	1,408	Cap 99, default 32	Host only
ShiftLobbyPlus	anthropic	1.2.0	986	Cap 243, default 8, MelonLoader	Host only
Puppeteer	Clementinise	1.0.5	614	Possess the night's monsters	Host only
SpaceRefill	CoddingCatPL	2.3.0	550	Space-tapping restock meter	Not stated
Nuisance	Clementinise	1.0.1	541	Eight customer emotes on a wheel	All players
PerPlayerVoiceVolume	Sh4de	1.2.0	439	Voice slider per player, 0 to 200 percent	Local
Disguise	Clementinise	1.0.0	400	Play as any named store regular	All players
NIGHTMARE_Mode	Heisenkebab_Mods	1.1.0	323	Harder quotas, thieves, spiders, save wipe	Not stated
Beacon	Clementinise	1.0.0	255	Middle-click pings that stick to people	All players
Chatter	Clementinise	1.0.0	209	Text chat in the dialogue history	All players
LODSettings	cabeca1143	1.0.0	205	Unity LOD bias, less object pop-in	Not stated
SatmLanIp	679215	1.0.3	128	LAN and VPN connection instead of Photon	Both sides

"Not stated" means the page never says who installs it, and "not confirmed yet" means the page says the answer was still being tested; in both cases assume everyone may need a matching copy.

Cheat trainers and host-power menus exist in the same community; this page does not cover them.

Best mods by what you want

Talking. Chatter adds the text box the game never shipped with, logging your line into the dialogue history. Beacon adds a middle-click ping in your shirt colour that sticks to a coworker, customer or pet. Everyone needs both. PerPlayerVoiceVolume adds a per-player slider, 0 to 200 percent, and calls itself fully client-side; the 20 August 2026 patch added stock sliders, so check the built-in menu.

Messing about. Disguise clocks you in as any named store regular; Nuisance gives you the rude customers' animations as eight emotes on a wheel. Puppeteer, host only, drops your body so you can drive a monster, spiders and the Shrieking Doll included — see monsters.

Difficulty. NIGHTMARE_Mode doubles quotas, lets thieves appear from day one, toughens spiders, cuts restock boxes from 15 items to 5, puts every customer on a patience timer, and wipes your save if you miss quota or die. Its faster vent push-out is client-side, so each player's own setting applies. Every value is configurable; ModSettingsMenu is a hard dependency. Pair it with endless-mode once story mode is done.

When mods break

These hook into internal game methods and Bun Muen patches every few weeks, so breakage is normal.

Check BepInEx/LogOutput.log after any update: ShiftMorePlayers writes a Patch FAILED line when its hooks stop matching.
Watch what a mod was tested against; SpaceRefill names the 22 July 2026 Windows build, many patches ago.
Keep versions identical across the lobby for all-players mods; mismatches cause connection trouble.

Follow patch-notes: a broken mod usually traces to the newest update.

Sources and last check

Checked 3 September 2026. Mod names, versions, download totals, config values, dependencies and install steps all come from the Thunderstore pages above, including BepInExPack_IL2CPP, ShiftMorePlayers, MoreShiftAtMidnightPlayers and Puppeteer. Those READMEs are author-written, so stability claims and tested player counts are author-reported, not verified, and "not stated" marks a scope no page gives. The stock six-player limit, the warning about playing above three and the per-player volume sliders come from the official Steam announcements of 23 July and 20 August 2026, which outrank mod pages still calling the cap three. Nothing here is endorsed by the developer.