All Doppelgangers in Shift At Midnight — Complete Identification List

Doppelgangers are the heart of Shift At Midnight. Every night, some of your "customers" are not human — and serving them, or worse, turning away a real person, is how runs end. This page lists every known Doppelganger and the exact tell that gives them away.

How identification works: cross-reference every customer against the N.E.T. database computer (name, photo, date of birth, job), check the Midnight News notice board in the back room, and use your scanning tools. Later tools make this much easier — see the Tools & Items guide.

Golden Rules of Identification

Before the list, memorize these community-tested rules:

• Look up everyone a customer mentions. If they name a relative or friend, search that name too — stories often contradict the database.
• Date of birth must match the face. A customer claiming to be young with an old face (or vice versa) is out.
• Tattoos, scars and birthmarks must match exactly. Height mismatches also mean rejection.
• The world has no wizards, magic beans, or human photosynthesis. Anyone claiming otherwise is a Doppelganger.
• Humans cannot levitate.
• Recurring characters who act like it's the first meeting are Doppelgangers.
• Background oddities (the corpse in the break room, the figure by the dumpster, the tall clerk, a car that shouldn't be there) are harmless atmosphere — don't panic over them.

Complete Doppelganger List

Special Doppelgangers

• Player's Doppelganger — your own elongated double ("the tall clerk"). Purely atmospheric; it does not attack.
• Car Doppelganger — a vehicle that shouldn't be there (appears Night 1). Harmless.
• Elongated Doppelganger — an SCP-3008-style stretched figure that appears after you restart the generator. Harmless but terrifying.

Known Humans — Do NOT Reject (or Kill)

Some characters trip up overzealous clerks. These are verified human:

• Clyde Dawson (the sheriff) — your first customer on Night 1, always human. Protect him: killing Clyde voids every ending achievement.
• Bonnie McCree — bald, Night 1, always human. "Often wears glasses" means the glasses are irrelevant, not a tell.
• The short dancing man (Kevin in person) — human. "Don't ruin his groove." Only a dancing image on the Anomaly Lens is the fake.
• Tofu the dog — a service dog belonging to Charles Wigglebottom. NOT the lost dog Guillermo (brown fur) from the poster — that mystery is a red herring.
• The Robber (Night 3) — human and hostile; can be safely killed with no penalty (toilet paper works).
• Victor the private investigator — human, but attacks you. Self-defense kills are fine.

How to Take Down a Confirmed Doppelganger

• Headshots kill instantly. Body shots only wound them — they flee and you'll need follow-up shots, so aim for the head.
• Afterwards: sledgehammer to break down the body, hose the blood, bag the remains. (The sledgehammer one-shots humans too — never swing it at the Robber or troublemakers, that's a fine.)
• Alternatively, some players complete the transaction first and deal with consequences later — see the True Ending money route in the Endings guide.

Drivers

Customers who arrive by car can't be scanned with the Anomaly screener, but the Emotiscope still works on them. Identify drivers by searching the name on their car documents in the database.

What Happens When You're Wrong

• Let a Doppelganger in → an Entity spawns and the Hunt begins (see the Hunt survival guide).
• Reject a human → lost revenue and rating damage; killing a human hits your pay.
• Note: there is no penalty for letting a Doppelganger buy something and leave — some players exploit this for the True Ending money route (see All Endings).

FAQ

How many Doppelgangers are there? Over 26 named Doppelgangers plus special variants. New ones appear in Endless mode.

Which tool is most important? The Anomaly Lens — it directly reveals many Doppelgangers (Aria, Kevin, Net, Ren, Wade, Vivien). Unlock and upgrade it as a priority.

Can Doppelgangers be killed? Yes — toilet paper pelting can kill some, and weapons work during confrontations, but killing decisions interact with the ending requirements. Read the Endings guide first.

This list is compiled from the community wiki, Steam guides and player testing, and is updated as new Doppelgangers are documented. Found a new tell? Tell us in the comments.