The Midnight Barber Cuts Hair of Supernatural Beings in Late-1970s Barcelona
The Midnight Barber stands out at gamescom 2026 by pairing a Spanish historical setting with a Midnight Diner-style late-night narrative format, aiming for a Japanese audience through planned localization.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Spanish indie studio Omaet Games is developing The Midnight Barber, a narrative adventure set in late-1970s Barcelona. Players run Clara's midnight-only barbershop, serving vampires, werewolves, and sirens through rhythm-action haircuts and conversation. The game blends chill storytelling with ASMR-style sound design, and it now has a Steam page accepting wishlist registrations. Japanese localization is planned.
Omaet Games, a Spanish independent studio, showed The Midnight Barber in the indie area at gamescom 2026. The game places Clara's barbershop in Barcelona near the end of the Franco era, a time of social change and democratization. The shop only opens at midnight, and its clients are vampires, werewolves, and sirens with no place in the daytime world.
Gameplay combines rhythm-action, where players match scissors and clippers to each customer's inner rhythm, with conversations that open up their hearts. Through choices, Clara influences their fates. As haircuts progress, she is pulled into a conspiracy hidden in Barcelona's shadows.
The hand-drawn art, rain sounds, and the pleasing sound of scissors push the experience beyond a work simulator. A Steam page is live with wishlists open, and Japanese text localization is already planned, though no publisher has been announced.
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